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Figure 4. --Locations of productive salmon streams between Cape Newenham and Point Hope, Alaska. 



many residents felt that the export of salmon 

 products was working a hardship on the local 

 inhabitants, commercial fishing on the Kusko- 

 kwim River was closed in 1925. It was again 

 allowed in 1930 with certain restrictions. In 

 1931 a quota of 250,000 fish, including sockeye 



and king salmon, was established for com- 

 mercial use. Generally this rather lenient quota 

 was not filled by the salteries, but because 

 of the effects of the commercial fishery, 

 local residents again requested a closure of 

 the river. In 1952, the export of salmon from 



