cping proper fishways or lull
the public into the belief that
a very troublesome and complex
obstacle to fisheries conserva
tion has been solved.”
Dam 200 Feet High
The Baker River experiment,
which involves a dam 200 feet
high, is in no sense successful,
he declares. One of the bureau’s
representatives has reported
that present equipment is vir
tually a failure.
It is true that fish have been
transported to the top of the
dam, he remarks, but in com
paratively small numbers, with
high mortality and numerous
injuries.
Collection Vary
Before the construction of the
dam, O’Malley states, twenty
two million Sockeye salmon eggs
were gathered at Baker Lake,
but since then the collections
range from fifty thousand to
three million nine hundred
thousand. About one million
were taken last year.
Even greater than the pro
blem of lifting the fish over the
high dam, says the fisheries
commissioner, is the loss sus
tained in young fish killed or
hurt in their plunge over the
dam on their journey down
stream, or in passing through
the conduits and over the power
wheels.
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FLOATING CANNERY
CHARTERED BY FIRM
The floating cannery Inter
national of the International
Packing Company was charter
ed by the Alaska Pacific Salmon
Corporation and will sail from
Seattle May 28 for Western
Alaska. The vessel will operate
in the vicinity of the Sand Point
and the Shumagin Islands. She
has a capacity for 60,000 cases
of salmon.
The Welch bill to regulate
floating canneries in Alaska was
reported favorably by the House
marine committee, according to
an Associated Press dispatch
from Washington D. C.
It would require canneries to
notify authorities of where they
would operate, in advance of the
salmon season, thus limiting op
erations to one spot.
-x
SEATTLE FISHING BOAT,
BEAUCLAIRE, BURNS
AT OLYMPIA
-x
The 65-foot fishing boat
Beauclaire, owned by C. R.
Duffy of Mud Bay, near Olympia,
was virtually destroyed by fire
at its moorings in an inlet of
Mud Bay. Duffy estimated the
loss at $6,000, of which $4,000
was covered by insurance.
The fire started as a light
globe, connected with the en
gine battern, broke and ignited
a film of gasoline covering the
boat’s bilge. The globe shattered
as Duffy and Robert Starr, a
neighbor, started the engine to
pump out water which had ac
cumulated in the boat.
The fire was punctuated by
several minor and muffled ex
plosions, occurring as the flames
reached accumulations of gaso
line, and one severe blast as the
main gasoline tank exploded.
Duffy was preparing the craft
for its annual journey to the
Bering Sea fishing grounds
when the fire started. The
Beauclaire has a net tonnage of
27, and a gross of 35. The boat’s
home port is Seattle.
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ALASKA FISHERIES
TO USE BIG FORCE
-X
E. A. Sims, president of the
Pacific Salmon Sales corporation,
has announced that the fisheries
of Alaska give employment to
30,000 persons this season, in the
fisheries and canneries.
-x
Laugh not too much; the witty
man laughs least.—George Her
bert,
FISH TRAP SITE LEASEHOLD
-x
Where are those brave de
fenders of the fishermen of
Alaska who damned Delegate
Wickersham and William L. Paul
for writing a bill which politi
cally was used as dynamite to
destroy Paul—a “trap leasehold
bill.” Do the voters remember
when Paul sold out for six thou
sand dollars to the canners and
how the betrayal of the fisher
men was the sole topic of an
entire campaign?
Senator Jones introduced
this same bill in Congress th!s
year. Have you heard that great
protector of the fishermen’s in
terests John Walker Troy or his
shadowi editor Pegues rise up in
wrath at the handing over of
water rights to trap interests?
Do you remember other little
editors who yelled murder and
what not during the elections to
defeat Paul and Wickersham?
What are those self same pro
tectors doing to stop passage of
the Jones bill which will give
trap operators a five-year pre
ferential right to sites for a
nominal license? Why are those
self-same protectors of the good
interests of the fishermen not
raising their voices in angry
protest?
Can you believe the sincerity
of men who damn certain lead
ers and yet who turn right a
round and do not even protest
the same bill when presented
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