snatching the food away from our
babie’s and women’3 mouths. We
are grateful for and are cognizant
of the many benefits derived from
your efforts to give us a fightiug
chance. In that critical period of
your life, we stood solidly behind
you because we have implicit faith
in you and as far as to trust that
you will do all in your power to
give us permanent relief from this
misery. We, the voters of the
west coast of Prince of Wales Is
land, this the - day of - in
the year of our Lord 1927, in sol
emn attest and good faith to our
declaration of intentions, do hereby
affix our signatures;
Might Be Better
According to word received here,
the open season for cannery 3almon
will begin on the 15th day of June.
We would invite the Bureau of
Fisheries to tell us just what bene
lit will be derived by said regula
tion. The seiner in this Division does
not think of beginning seining oper
ations until after the 5tli of July be
cause BEFORE THAT DATE THERE
ARE NO SALMON TO CATCH.
THE ALASKAN has refrained
from commenting on the fisheries re •
gulation3 because only general re
views of proposed regulations have
been given the press. We believe the
regulations as will be and the regu
lations as announced to be two dif
ferent birds—one being a shypolk
and ’tother a buzzard. Too many
“conferences” and “invitations for
suggestions from the Fish Barons”
and no consideration for the ideas of
thorp who toil with the seines.—
THE Alaskan, Petersburg.
SITKA CAMP
ALASKA NATIVE
BROTHERHOOD
Meets 8 P. M. Mondays
President: Secretary:
Mark Jacobs A. Hope
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Fisheries Regulations
Central District S* E.
Alaska
AH waters of this area between
the fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth
parallels of north latitude.
.GILL NETS.
1. The total aggregate length of
gill nets on any salmon fishing boat
or in use by such boat, shall not ex
ceed 250 fathoms hung mea3ure.
2. Stake and anchored gill nets
shall be operated in substantially a
straight line.
3. The distance by most direct
water measurement from any par:
of one trap to any part of another
trap shall not be less than one stat
ute mile.
SEINES
4. No salmon fishing boats shall
carry or operate more than one
seine of any description, and no ad
ditional net of any kind shall be Car
rie on such boat.
No purse seine shall be less tha.i
175 meshes nor more than 250
meshes in depth, nor less than 150
fathoms nor more than 200 fath
oms in length measured on the cork
line. For the purpose of determin
ing depths of seines measurements
will be upon the basis of 31-2 inches
stretched measure between knots
No extension to any seine in the way
of lords will be permitted.
C LOSED PERIODS
5. Commercial fishing for salmon,
except by trolling prior to July 1
in each year is prohibited in Tena
kee Inlet and Freshwater Bay with
in a line from North Passage Point
to Sc uth Passage Point.
7. Commercial fishing for salmon
is prohibitel in Port Frederick
northern shore of Chicagof Island,
in all waters east of a line from In
ne** Point Sophia to Game Point and
in all waters south of 58 degrees 4
minutes north latitude, except that
trolling will be permitted from No
vember 1 to June lr both dates in
clusive. A portion of the waters
closed is in the Icy Strait-Cros.*
Sound District
TRAP RESTRICTIONS
8. The use of any trap for ths
capture of salmon is prohibited, ex
cept as follows:
(a) Chicagof Island: North side
of Salisbury Sound from Point Leo
eastward to 135 degrees 43 minutes
west longitude.
(b) Baranof Island: North wes*
coast beginning at a point 1,000
yards southward of Point Kakul an;i
extending southward 1-2 statute
mile.
(c) : Chicagof Island: Northeast
ern coast from Point Sophia to North
Passage Point, exclusive of Falsa
Bay. A part of these waters is in
the Tcy Strait-Cross Sound district.
(d) Chicagof Island: Eastern
Coast from South Passage Point t'.
Point Hayes, exclusive of Basket
Bay and within 1-2 statute mile of
each side of its entrance.
(e) Baranof Island: From Point
Thatcher to Point Lull.
(f) Baranof Island: East Coast
from South Point to the north side
of the entrance to Lisianski Bay, ex
clusive of Cosmos Cove.
(g) Baranof Island: East Coast
from a point at the south side of the
entrance to Kasnyku Bay at 57 de
grees 12 minutes north latitude to
Point Turbot.
(li) Admiralty Island: West Coast
from Parker Point to 58 degrees 3
minutes north latitude. A part of
these waters is in the Icy Strait
Cross Sound District.
(i) Admiralty Island: West coast
from Village Point to Distant Point.
j) Admiralty Island: West Coa3t
from Woody Point to Rocky Point.
(k) Admiralty Island: West Coast
from a point north of Wilson Cove
at 57 degrees 10 minutes 30 seconds
north latitude to Port Caution.
(1) Admiralty Island: Southeast
coast from Point Pybus to Pal3e
Point Pybus.
(m) Admiralty Island: Southeast
coast from a point at 67 degrees 13