try get along before the CANNING
INDUSTRY OF ALASKA got into
the country ? And are there more
trout now than a few years back;
if so, why?
* * * *
Lends Boats to Fisheries Bureau
“They have been active in clear
ing the streams of obstructions, have
worked in conjunction with the U- S.
Bureau of Fisheries in charting and
cleaning out the spawning beds, and
have furnished boats to the Bureau
for the patrolling of the ground and
protection of the spawning salmon.’’
THE CANNING INDUSTRY OF
ALASKA speaking of their own ef
forts.
A few years ago the salmon stream
at Lake Bay was fenced so that
not one salmon escaped to the spawn
ing grounds. (While the CANNING
INDUSTRY OF ALASKA was try
ing to secure legislation to insure
proper protection of the salmon.)
William Lewis who was concerned
over his future fishing reported the
matter to the Bureau of Fisheries.
In the course of time a representa
tive of the Bureau came to Wrangell
and explained to Jack Babler that
an investigation was to be made of
the report, and could it be possible
for Mr. Babler to get means of trans
portation to Lake Bay for the in
vestigator. Sure, sure, said Mr.
Babler, who was a superintendent
of one of the canneries of THE
CANNING INDUSTRY OF ALAS
KA, but it could not be possible for
a couple of days as the boats had
to leave for Thom's Creek.
That day the CANNING INDUS
TRY OF ALASKA sent its tup: to
Lake Bay and ordered all their fish
ermen to pack up their duds and
gear and be taken to Whale Passage
quite a different place. When this
was done the tug returned to Wrang
ell and then took Mr. Investigator
for the Bureau of Fisheries out to
Whale Passage. He very conscien
tiously went about a mile up into
timberland and on his return said
to the Captain of the tug in the
presence of fishermen that he “saw
no fence across the stream.” The
tug returned to Wrangell and Mr.
Investigator probably reported that
the tale of the fence was a myth.
Of course it paid THE CANNING
INDUSTRY OF ALASKA to tote
the Bureau of Fasheries representa
tives around.
* * * *
“All that is required to bring
about closer co-operation is closer
acquaintance—more complete under
standing.” When The Canning In
dustry of Alaska said that they spoke
the truth. Write some more and
we will get a better understanding
and so will the law makers of the
land know just what you are, who
you are and what you have done to
destroy the fisheries of Alaska.
THE ADVISORY BOARD
At the meeting of the Alaska Ad
visory Board (invented by Hoover,
Bone and O’Malley to make us think
we had something to say about run
ning our fisheries) they recommend
ed that 38 bays where seiners fished'
should be closed “in the interest of
conservation,” and also that traps
were to be left alone except in Icy
Straits, where they were to be two
miles aPart.
Commissioner O’Malley closed the
seining grounds over the protest of
the seiners, who said that they were
bearing the entire burden of con
servation because he said, “Your
own advisory board (Scott C. Bone,
J. R. Heckman and their shadows)
has ordered it.” But he changed
the two mile limit for traps to
1 1-2 miles.
When the Natives and other resi
dents of the Chilcat country protest
the unjust closing orders, Henry
O’Malley tells them that it cannot
be done, for the order is necessary
for conservation, and has been rec
ommended by the Alaska Advisory
Board. But when the Alaska Ad
visory Board recommended that fish
traps in the Icy Straits district be
not closer than two miles apart, and
the fish trust protests to Henry
O’Malley that such an order will
hurt business, Henry O’Malley im
mediately modifies the recommend
ations of the Alaska Advisory
Board, and issues an order allowing
fish traps to be one and one-half
miles apart. It makes all the dif
ference in the world to the Bureau
of Fisheries who makes the protest.
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