ARE FISH HATCHERIES
WORTH WHILE?
men should be appointed.
Every stream and lake which
is warm, stagnant, polluted or
otherwise unsuitable should be
denied stocking privileges. All
waters which abound with en
emy and competitor fish must
be seined free of them before
stocking. Care must be taken to
locate and estimate adequate
supplies of natural food in
streams and lakes so as to in
sure fry and fingerlings against
starvation. If these precau
tions are taken, the lives of
many millions of fry and finger
lings will be saved, and that is
the pressing duty of both the
Ontario and the Dominion
hatcheries today—not the erec
tion of more hatcheries and the
production of more fry.
What the Puritans gave the
world was not thought but ac
tion.—Wendell Phillips.
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Important Fish
Pact Signed
A treaty for the preservation
ar.d extension of sockeye salmon
fisheries of the Fraser River Sys
tem, which includes the waters
contiguous to the State of Wash
ington and the province of Bri
tish Columbia, was signed last
month by Secretary Kellogg and
the Canadian minister, Vincent
Massey.
The treaty provides for estab
lishment of an international fish
eries commission of six mem
bers, three for the United States
and three in Canada. The com
missioner of Fisheries of the
United States will be one of the
American members.
The commission is charged
with the duty of making a tho
rough investigation into the na
tural history of the sockeye sal
mon and is given power to de
velop the fisheries and to main
tain hatcheries.
It also is given power to es
tablish a closed season when
fishing for sockeye salmon will
be prohibited, between June 1
and August 20 in each year, and
to regulate the character and
si-ze of fishing gear.
The treaty is concluded for a
period of sixteen years, after
which it is subject to termina
tion on notice of one year by the
government of either country.
The treaty is the first that has
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CANADIAN FISH & COLD STORAGE j
COMPANY, Ltd. !
PRINCE HUBERT, B. C., CANADA
offer to the fishermen of Alaska the means of obtaining
highest prices for their halibut and salmon. |
We have recently reconstructed our ice plant and now
produce only hard transparent ice which preserves the fish
one hundred per cent. 1
been signed by the United States
W'th a Canadian resident minis
ter at Washington, and is also
the last treaty signed by Sec
retary during his term of office.
Other treaties proposed by Ca
nada met with opposition from
American canning interests arid
failed to receive endorsement of
the United States Senate. On
each occasion Canada was com
pelled to repeal laws made to
conform with the proposed
treaty.
"Always Glad to Hear
From You”
Washington, D. C.
December 21, 1924
Mr. William L. Paul,
Ketchikan, Alaska
Dear Mr. Paul: I am in re
ceipt of your letter December
9th, and am pleased to have the
matter you refer to stated so
succinctly. It is right to the
point, and I want to use your
letter where it will do the most
good toward having ideas car
ried out.
I find that Mr. Coolidge is op
erating along these lines, and
by doing so he will build up a
strong Republican party.
Mr. Miller and I are doing
what we can here to clean out
that bipartizan crowd up in
Alaska and are making good
progress. Of course we do not
yet know what the harvest will
be but we have sown good seed
where it will bring forth fruit.
Mr. Miller is a past grand
when it comes to passing around
among these Capital political
manipulators. If we only had
the money to keep him on the
job untill the war is over there
would be little danger as to good
results.
But it is expensive and he is
paying his own way.
We have already had confer
THWAITES PROTO SHOP
Ketchikan
KODAK FINISHING
COPYING—ENLARGING
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