“THE CANNING INDUSTRY
OF ALASKA”
“Two lines of action are essential
to the perpetuation of the salmon
fishing industry of Alaska—legisla
tion designed to temporarily decrease
the pack and constructive effort to
ward increasing the supply.”
—Signed—The Canning Industry
The question that we would like
to ask is Why propose legislation de
signed to temporarily decrease the
pack? Were the legislature or Con
gress to propose legislation to de
crease packs as has been demanded
bv real Alaskans THE CANNING
INDUSTRY OF ALASKA would be
the first to carry the matter into
court and put the Territory to fur
ther expense in its effort to con-r
serve the salmon- When Judge Reed
of the District Court ruled that the
regulation of the Bureau of Fish
eries requiring that all traps have a
25-foot opening of the side walls of
the hearts and that 25 feet should
be at both ends of the heart he was
making a ruling that would conserve
salmon. But THE CANNING IN
DUSTRY OF ALASKA did not see
it that way and carried a test case
into court and lost on appeal.
* * *
“For many years the more respon
sible and representative element in
the Salmon Canning Industry has
been working ceaselessly to procure
legislation which would allow suf
ficient escapement to the spawning
beds to adequately stock them and
at the same time work THE LEAST
POSSIBLE HARM TO THEM
SELVES AND THE FISHERMEN
OF ALASKA” — THE CANNING
INDUSTRY OF ALASKA.
While for many years you were
“working ceaselessly to procure leg
islation which would insure sufficient
escapement to the spawning beds”
we saw you blocking salmon streams;
we heard you tell your fishermen
to go up the creeks and get all the
fish they could get and we heard
you saw, “If you are caught we will
back you.” We saw the Alaska
Packers’ Trap at Anan Creek just
90 paces from the mouth of the
salmon stream and we so advised
the Bureau of Fisheries. But we
were only residents of Alaska and
you were THE CANNING INDUS
TRY OF ALASKA so you were not
molested in your destruction of the
“spawning grounds and seed” while
you were trying to procure legisla
tion to insure the propagation of the
industry. We saw in Hoonah Sound
a trap abreast of Emmon’s Island
which blocked three-fourths of the
channel and we saw the era of de
pletion hit while you were work
ing for that constructive legislation.
We saw the Ratz Harbor creek
shut off by your two traps and the
creek depleted of salmon while you
were working’ for constructive legis
lation. We saw the Eagle Creek,
led salmon stream, deteriorate from
a red salmon stream to the low
priced dog salmon due to the ef
ficiency of your traps while you fid
dled away at your constructive (?)
legislation. We saw the entire Brad
field Canal depleted by your scien
tific traps from Union Bay down to
Cape Comaano while you were get
ting legislation that would permit
salmon seed to escape to breeding
grounds.
We saw streams from the Summit
Island, at the mouth of the Stickeen
River to Kake depleted while you
were insuring the sufficient escape
ment (?) of salmon to spawning
beds to adequately stock them with
the least possible harm to yourself
and to the fishermen (?). We saw
the depletion of the streams around
Etolin Island and from Kake to
Point Barry while you were taking
care (?) of the poor fishermen of
Alaska.
As philanthropists you are every
thing else but. As conservationists
of your own interests we give you
the prize. As destructionists of the
Alaska Fisheries you have a batting
average of 1000.
During the year 1922 the CAN
NING INDUSTRY OF ALASKA
paid out $25,000 for the extermina
tion of the Dolly Varden trout in
the interests of propagation. Prior
to 1910 it was almost a crime to
destroy that good food fish but since
the CANNING INDUSTRY OF
ALASKA has been trying to “se
cure legislation for the propagation
of salmon and the escapement of
seed to spawning grounds it has
been necessary to exterminate the
dolly. How (lid the salmon indus
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