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Department of Commerce and labor Circular No. 192, April 24, 1909. Regulations of Bureau of 

 Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Service Circular No. 2, March 10, 1911. 

 Provides for numbering of fixed fishing appliances. 

 Department of Commerce and labor Circular No. 238, March 21, 1912. 



Regulates fishing in Afognak Reservation; restricts fishing rights to natives; gear and seasons 

 subject to restrictions. (Presidential proclamation of December 24, 1892.) 



Order of Secretary of Commerce and Labor, November 18, 1912. 



Closes to all commercial fishing for salmon, streams flowing into Cook Inlet; Eyak Lake and its 

 tributaries; Anan or Humpback Creek, its lagoon, lakes, and tributaries, and the region within 

 500 yards of its mouth; Naha stream and its tributary waters above a line from Loring Point to 

 House Point. 

 Department of Commerce and Labor notice, February 6, 1913. 



Extends privileges of fishing in Afognak Reservation to certain other natives and white men 

 married to native women. 

 Department of Commerce Circular No. 251, August 19, 1913. 



Repeats acts of June 14 and June 26, 1906, and regulations of April 24, 1909, changing authority 

 to Department of Commerce. 

 Announcement, Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Biological Survey, April 13, 1914. 



Permits to fish required in Aleutian Islands Reservation. 

 Department of Commerce Circular No. 251, second edition. May 4, 1915. 



Gives acts of June 14 and 26, 1906; general regulations providing for (1) inspection, (2) num- 

 bering of fixed appliances, (3) filing of labels, and (4) waste of backs. Regulations in Afognak 

 Reservation. Regulations in Aleutian Islands Reservation. 



Closing orders: 



1. Promulgated December 19, 1907. Closes fishing in Wood and Nushagak Rivers and 



within 500 yards of the mouth of Wood River. 



2. Promulgated Novemlser IS, 1912. Closes fishing in (1) all streams of Cook Inlet, 



(2) Eyak Lake, (3) Anan Creek and for 500 yards outside, and (4) Naha River above 

 Loring Point and House Point. 



Order of Secretary of Commerce, October 25, 1915. 



Closes to all fishing for salmon all waters tributary to Barnes Lake; Hctta Creek, its tributary 

 waters, and the region within 500 yards of its mouth; and Sockeye Creek, its tributary Boca de 

 Quadra waters, and the region within 500 yards of its mouth. 



Department of Commerce Circular No. 251, third edition, March 20, 1916. 

 Includes, in addition to contents of second edition: 



1. Executive order of February 1, 1906, establishing Yes Bay Reservation. 



2. Closing order promulgated October 25, 1915, closing fishing in Barnes Lake, Hetta 



Creek and for 500 yards outside, and Sockeye Creek (Boca de Quadra) and for 500 

 yards outside. 



Department of Commerce Circular No. 251, fourth edition, March 12, 1918. 



Includes, in addition to contents of third edition: 



1. Proclamation of April 28, 1916, establishing Annette Island Fishery Reserve. 



2. Closing order promulgated November 30, 1917, closing Karluk River and Lagoon. 



3. Closing order promulgated November 30, 1917, closing Bering River. 



4. Closing order promulgated December 29, 1917, restricting fishing in Copper River, 



as follows: 



(1) Copper River Delta closed between January 1 and June 1 each .vear and at Miles 



Lake and Abercrombie Canyon between January 1 and June 5. 



(2) Weekly closed season. 



