public official would dare to ignore
ii. The battle which we are putting
up is not for the purpose of de
stroying capital. We are trying to
save the herring industry while we
still have herring.
The fact of the matter is, that
Karl Hunter and his fellow investiga
tors started to prove that there was
no waste. The grinding of herring
into fertilizer is waste, but Mr. Hunt
er dare not tell the truth. He says
that all of the herring is being
utilized. Yes, in tne same manner
that manure is utilized. Is this the
proper use of food fish?
Suppose Henry O’Malley, fish com
missioner, and Assistant Agent Earl
Hunter should find us during the
salmon season grinding up salmon
for fertilizer, how long would they,
or the cannerymen who would want
such fish, stand for such actions?
Not a minute. But these people
think it is all right to use herring
for fertilizer and thus save the ma
nure piles.
YY ny did Mr. Hunter not go to
the scene of operations and actually
watch how the fish are caught? He
had nothing else to do, and yet he
either went to the herring plant
when the operations were all com
pleted and the Dago fishermen had
returned to their homes on Puget
Sound, 01 else he purposely steered
clear of the seining grounds and
fooled his time away among the
trollers.
We have watched herring fisher
men catch herring with their small
meshed seines, and from personal
observation can say that a large
proportion of herring are wasted
with every haul, for two reasons:
(1) A large number, often seventy
five per cent, are too small for salt
ing. (2) Because when herring is
caught it: quantities of one to ten
thousand barrels when the net is
drawn, a large proportion of herring
die from suffocation.
Lhe man who started ihe marges
of waste of herring is the Hon. C. B.
Ferguson, a member of the Alaska
Legislature, who himself has been
a herring packer for almost twenty
years. The charges which he made
were the result of a trip which he
made on the steamship Curacoa,
which left Craig, Alaska, and touched
at every herring plant on Chatham
Straits. Mr. Ferguson stood on the
deck of the steamer Curacao and
actually saw the waste of herring
which brought about the charges.
Mr. Ferguson has no job to pro
tect, nor does he care that the de
stroyers of Alaska’s resources are
influential friends of Henry O’Mal
ley, U. S. fish commissioner. Mr.
Ferguson, over twenty-five years a
resident of Alaska, is anxious to
preserve the resources of our Ter
ritory for future generations. Let
a real investigation be made. Let
the Hon. C. B. Ferguson be invited
to make the investigation. Let the
investigation be made during the
herring packing season and not after
it has closed.
ALASKA GAME COMMIS
SION
The office of the Alaska Game
Commission and Bureau of Biologi
cal Survey, at Juneau, announces
that in the future permits for the
capture of land fur-bearing animals
in Alaska for propagation purposes
will be issued from the Juneau of
fice, and that applications need no
longer suffer delay by being sent to
the Washington office, as has been
the custom in the past. This ar
rangement is made in accordance
with Regulation 22 of the Alaska
Game Law.
Mr. Walker, Executive Officer of
the Commission, states that the Bio
logical Survey and Alaska Game
Commission are doing all in their
power to foster the development of
fur-farming in Alaska and permits
for the capture of a limited number
of fur-bearing animals for propaga
tion purposes are granted to persons
who show they are prepared to take
proper care of fur-bearing animals
they may capture under permit.
Applications for capture permits
should state name in full, residence
and postoffice address, location of
fur farm, or where they propose to
keep the animals, together with a
brief statement of the facilities the
applicant has for the care of any
animals taken, the number and kinds
of animals which it is desired to
capture, and if the capture opera
tions are not to be carried on by
the applicant, the application should
give the name of the person who
is to engage in the capture.
The permit is issued without
charge, but the person who is to do
the capture work must hold a valid
license under the Alaska Game Law,
permitting him to take land fur
bearing animals. Persons who can
qualify for the Resident Trapping
License at a fee of $2 need only
i
take out that license. Non-resident
citizens must have the $50 license,
and aliens must have the $100 li
cense.
Mr. Walker states that while they
are quite liberal in the granting of
such permits, they endeavor to make
certain that the person is actually
going into bona fide fur farming and
is prepared to care for the animals
taken. He also points out that due
to the fact that few persons are
experienced in the care of wild ani
mals, that permits will ordinarily be
issued for only small numbers, which
he states is sufficient to enable the
applicant to get a start, to experi
ment, and to determine whether or
not he can raise them successfully.
Additional permits may usually be
obtained if the person finds he can
successfully raise the animals and is
prepared to care for them.
Permits will not ordinarily be
granted, accordirg to Mr. Walker,
for the capture of animals to be
removed from the Territory, for he
states that it is the aim of the
Commission to foster the develop
ment of fur farming in the Terri
tory.
Permittees are required to have
the permit in their possession in
capturing animals and are prohibited
from destroying the dens or burrows
of animals in the capture, and are
prohibited from using smoke or
chemicals in capturing them.
Permittees are required to comply
with the provisions of the Alaska
Game Laws and regulations and the
Territorial laws. At the expiration
Dr. A. Kearsley
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Sitka, Alaska
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