HENRY O’MALLEY FORE
CASTS NEW FSSH
REGULATIONS
The Duke of Alaska and Its Fish
eries Tells Alaskans What He
Proposes to do Next Year.
At an interview in Seattle
last month, Henry O’Malley, federal
fish commissioner, said the Bristol
Bay fishing; season will be shortened
and the size of the gear will be
reduced to lessen the catch. By
this statement, O’Malley means that
the handgear will bo shortened.
The Bureau of Fisheries has never
yet made any regulations affecting
the efficiency of the trap with the
exception of the floating trap,
The reason for the exception only
shows who controls the Bureau
of Fisheries. The rule against a
lead of 1,000 feet in floaters where
the depth was over 100 feet was
made on the demand of the power
ful owners of pile or standing
traps who demanded this restric
tion to protect their good trap
sites against floaters who were
crowding the big owners.
“On the south jside of (:t)hie
Alaska Peninsula, traps will be
spaced farther apart, and a 60
hour closed period for all south
eastern Alaska south of the fifty
eight parallel (a line running thru
Point Augusta and Snettisham)
will be recommended. Traps south
of the Peninsula are now permit
ted 1,800 feet apart, but the
regulations will probably require
that they be spaced a mile and
a half apart, thus cutting the total
to about one-fifth of the present
total.”
We are reminded of what J. R.
Heckman, vice-chairman of the
Territorial Fish Commission said
in Juneau when debating; the tax
question. “If you would let me
have the west shore of Gravina
Island without competition, I could
catch just as many fish with three
or four traps as I could with fif
teen. That is why Anette Island
Packing; Company can make money
on packing humpies. They have no
competition in traps.”
We suppose Henry O’Malley will
say that in spite of what Mr.
Heckman has said, that lie is re
ducing the efficiency of the trap
to one-fifth by his new regulations.
Some people will be fooled by it.
QUINAULTS HIT
BACK AT THE FISH
By Frank Law
Editor, North American Indian:
Some weeks ago the Indians of
Taholah read in the North American
Indian in regard to the fishing sit
uation of the Quinault River that
flows through the Quinault Indian
Reservation. The statements were
made by Mr. Henry O’Malley of the
Bureau of Fisheries of Washington
D. C., formerly of the Pacific Coast.
He threatens to abolish the hat
chery on the Quinault Lake and turn
it over to the state for propagat
ion of trout as he says the sports
men were interested in the hat
chery. Why shouldn’t they be in
terested as they would have a
good trout hatchery and the very
best streams and lakes for the trout
in the world.
As we understand they have been
planting; trout up in the upper rivers
that flows into the Quinault and the
spawning place of the blue backs
that is being; protected by the Bur
eau of fisheries. Mr. O’Malley’:'
complaint is that the Indians are
overfishing; the Quinault River, more
so since they have won certain
suits against the government.
Mr. O’Malley, we believe, did not
understand the suits brought by the
Indians in regard to different mat
ters in the Quinault River. The
hatchery has been in operation since
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