in Libby’s favor so I would propose
to close the whole river for king
salmon until you could get the fish
ermen’s opinion that i's interested
up there.
I was up at your office last spring
and was informed that they were
going to enforce the Law that we
could not carry iced fish that was
over 48 hours old and was not pre
pared for mild curing 'so had to sell
my fish for practically nothing. i
do hate to turn informer hut I have
kept my mouth closed long enough.
If the Libby’s was going to can
their fish according to Law it is
impossible for them to do it except
they had an airo-plane and then go
up the river and pick up the fish
and take them to Yakutat..
The Boat comes to Dry Bay Mon
days, Wednesdays, and Fridays
weather permitting and now for an
example the fishermen pick their
nets up river Friday morning and
conie down lie river to meet the
Boat. They leave their nets set.
There is Friday, Saturday, Sunday
and Mondays lish and they are not
canned before Tuesday, so the fish
are 4 y>> days old. Of course its
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weekly closed season but it is not
observed and there is no stream
watchman. I can prove this. There
has been one stream watchman one
season in Dry Bay and he would
not have been there if I had not
taken him up on my Boat and he
was in the Lower Bay as he had no
boat to go up river. I have seen
fish six days old full of maggots
taken to Yakutat and canned but
us independent fishermen cleaning
our fish as soon as caught and put
on ice if we take them out there fa
a complaint made.
Anybody that has mildcured
knows that fish that has been lay
ing in ice is better to mildcure as
the blood goes out of the fish and
its hard to get the blood out of a
tresh fish in fact some mildcurers
will not mildcure a salmon that
has not been iced and If that law
was observed that you can’t cure
salmon after they are 48 hours old
there would be very few mildcure
salmon packed as all the mildcur
ers send out their boat with ice
and the fish are 4 to 5 days old.
Last year they stopped us from tak
ing iced fish out. Who done it, the
Libby’s of course because they don’t
like to see anybody in there. Your
office got some telegrams from the
natives in Yakutat to get us inde
pendent fishermen out. I read the
answer and found out it was done
by the Libby’s and got one of the
Libbys natives by the name of Al
bert Caldwell to send it. Most of
the natives like to see us as it has
raised the price of fish and of
course that is not what Libby likes.
I hope that you can realize that
you have wronged us little fellows
and while your closing the Bay un
til June 1st stops me, still Libby,
McNeal & Libby equipped with ex
pensive power boats catch 20 miles
up the very fish which you stop me
from catching.
Respectfully,
CHAS. W. JOHNSON,
Box 134
Juneau, Alaska.
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