HENRY O’MALLEY, SUTHER
LAND AND THE ALASKA
TROLLERS’ ASSOCIATION
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the spawning fish, the future of
the species is guaranteed. Any
additional restrictions only add
to the difficulties of earning
our living in Alaska, a proceed
ing not intended by Congress
when it gave the Secretary of
Commerce his unlimited powers
over the waters of Alaska.
Our Proposal
Our proposal is practical be
cause very few hooked king sal
mon die when shaken off the
hne for the reasons above stat
ed. The fact that other gear
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fish during part oi' the trolling
season will net make this re
gulation ineffective because the
department's regulations a 1
ready prohibit the operation of
these other gear during the
king salmon season, and the
king salmon do not run with the
other species during the canning
season.
Our proposal will protect the
immature fish during the entire
year whereas the present regu
lation will not even protect the
salmon that might have been
caught during January, Febru
ary and March .
We again urge that the de
partment be asked to adopt our
suggestions and await with great
interest tlieir reply.
Respectfully,
Alaska Trailers’ Association
By Eric K. Johnson, President.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE
SOCKEYE
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That treaty was promptly ap
proved by the government of
Canada. The United States
Senate again refused to concur
and the President withdrew it.
Nothing has since been ac
complished. The pitiful rem
nants of the former abundant
runs to the Fraser are still be
ing preyed upon by Canadian
and United States fishermen,
and the vast spawning areas of
the Fraser basin unseeded and
unproductive.
The Fraser River basin con
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offer to the fishermen of Alaska (he 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 lish
one hundred per cent.
lains 1,514,000 acres of spawning
a.ea. That area has not been
T .ened or contaminated. It is
as extensive and as suitable for
i j prorogation as formerly,
the vast lake waters of the
I .\xscr are as rich in the natur
al foods of young sockeye as ev
er. The channels of the river
are open and free to the pass
age of such fish as are permitted
to enter them. All that is re
ceived to produce the abundant
runs of former years is a suffi
cient number of fish to seed
them abundantly as they were
reeded in those years. No other
waters afford so alluring a field
for exploitation.
The restoration of the sockeye
salmon fisheries of the Fraser
River System is the greatest re
clamation project in which Ca
nada and the United States can
jointly engage.
A DREAM
(Editor’s note:—This “dream”
of Mr. Nunan, the manager of
the Ketchikan plant of the New
England Fish Company is worth
reading because it is the pro
duct of a man who is probably
the foremost thinker in the fish
business. Our only disagree
ment is his laudation of Carl
Strong. Carl would make it a
part of his dream that he re
ceive the usual 100 per cent rake
off).
The Dream
I have been dreaming dreams
for years regarding the business
in which I am engaged, which
is fish; and these dreams may
appear absurd and crazy to
others, but they do not appear
that way to me.
I dream of the time when
Ketchikan will be a real out
standing fish port with a large
fleet of vessels, both large and
small, catching fish. Particu
larly there is a chance for de
velopment in connection with
the small type of vessels that will
employ a large fishing popula
tion engaged in the catching of
such fish as sableflsh, red cod,