Canadian Fisheries==New
Regulations Listed
Following is a list of the seven
te n revisions of tlie fishing regu
lations governing the industry of
B'itish Columbia announced by the
department of marine and fisheries
at Ottawa following the investiga
tion of the salmon business carried
on at the Pacific Coast last Decem
ber by W. A. Found:
1. The close season for little neck
clams is changed to February and
March, instead of June and July,
and for butter clams, August to Oc
tober inclusive injstead f May to
September inclusive.
o. The close season for cod is
changed to January and February,
from February and March, and is
restricted to ling cod.
‘ A minimum mesh o fone-incn
extension measure for herring net
i* provided, instead of a fixed mesh
o*^ that size, and purse-seining foi
bet ring in Pearl Harbor is prohibit
ed except under special conditions
Also, provision is made for the li
censing of herring ponds.
H. Helpers in fishing herring
Heines are required to be licensed.
1!. Drift-net fishermen are requir
ed lo place lights at the end of their
ne's at night, and purse-seine boats
must have their numbers on the top
ot tlie pilot house.
7. The use of floating traps is pro
hibited.
S. All kinds of fishing for com
mercial purposes is prohibited above
fishing boundaries.
y. The projected distance about
the mouths of rivers and streams at
which fishing may be carried on is
expended from 200 yards to half a
mile.
10. The use of power boats in as
sisting purse-seine boats in seining
js .prohibited, as it is what is know i
as an “open set” in purse-seining.
j l. Waste or wanton destruction
of fish is prohibited.
j2. Collecting boats are not al
lowed to carry nets.
IDriving salmon from inside
closed area is prohibited.
j 4. Salmon purse-seining is pro
hibited in a considerable number of
areas.
a5. The maximum length of i
salmon purse-seine is reduced from
5< 0 to 200 fathoms, and the width
must be not less than 250 meshes on
tDt basis of a three and a half-inch
mesh.
J The minimum mesh of sock
ex t nets is abolished after the com
ing season.
; 7. A (dose season for cohoes on
the Cast coast of Vancouver island,
smith of Cape kludge, from January
1 to May 15, is provided. This is
to prevent the capture of immature
conoes.
It is reported sc m i-o file i ally that
the caliners association will take the
a• nendments under eonsideration to
wards ti e end of February and there
may ho one or two points on which
r‘present at ion may he. made for
modification.
Prohibit ion of purse-seining in
certain areas, llie changes in the size
or the purse seines, and the new
dose seasons are the three points
on which modifications may be
sought.
The number of areas in the for
bidden category is fairly large, rut
ting down of the salmon purse-seine
from nOO to 200 fathoms and with a
width of not less than 2"0 meshes
on the basis of a three and a half
inch mesh, will not. be altogether
satisfactory to some of the interests
involved.
The view is held in some quarters
that smaller seines arc not neces
sarilv in the interests of conserv**
1i )n. Small seines have been 11m
wo/st offenders in the past in fish
ing in small creeks.
. I'ohiliition ot floating traps will
rot affect 13. C. fishermen as there
are no Heating traps in Canadian
waters on the Pacific. There are a
few stationary traps on the Naas
River and the Sooke on the west
(•cast of Vancouver Island.
Little new gear will he needed hy
the cannevs this season, it is report
ed, as a result of the intention to
crj'ail on the number of boats in
operation. A considerable surplus
o noats will be on hand, and for that
rea on there are practically no new
ci art under construction at the pro
s' nt time on the Vancouver yards.
Tee changed regulations in nets will
necessitate a considerable supply of
equipment of this sort, and orders
have already gone forth for supplies.
Canadian Fisherman.
INiTKD STATUS SOIACITOK
CiKNKHAIj IX Ali.\SK\
r; he naming of a iudge for a tem
porary assignment, to the bench i.i
tk • First Division to clear up the
present calendar, is apparently oc
first importance in his general sur
vey of Judicial Administration in the
Tf rritory, declared William DeWitt
Miter,ell. Solicitor Ceneral of th ;
Dieted States, who arrived in Ju
neau on the steamer Aleutian re
cently. An assignment will be made
Do mono of the other Divisions of
tl r Territory or from the States he
sa :d.
Mr. Mitchell is in Alaska to in
quire info a number of matters per
tn ning to the Department of Just
ice. He specifically expects to look
into the selection of a Judge to fill
the vacancy in the First Division,
caused by the death of Judge T. M
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