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localities are considered as predatory enemies of the salmon and other 

 valuable fishes. 



An act approved April 30, 1931, appropriated $25,000 to be expended 

 in improving salmon spawning grounds and destroying predatory 

 enemies of the salmon, under the direction of the Governor of Alaska 

 in cooperation with the Bureau of Fisheries. 



Other acts provided for the stocking of lakes and streams in certain 

 parts of Alaska with game fish, including an appropriation of $500 for 

 that purpose, and provided for the bonding of any company or indi- 

 vidual applying for a provisional license for prosecuting certain fishery 

 industries where the applicant does not have sufficient real property 

 in the Territory to secure the payment of taxes on such industries. 



The Territorial act of May 2, 1929, imposing a license fee of $250 

 on nonresident troll fishermen and $1 on resident fishermen, was held 

 by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to be in conflict 

 with provisions of the Federal law wherein it is stipulated that no 

 citizen of the United States shall be denied the right to take fish in 

 any area of the waters of Alaska where fishing is permitted by the 

 Secretary of Commerce. That court on November 24, 1930, reversed 

 the decree of the Federal district court in the case of Wood Freeman, 

 president of the Trolling Vessel Owners Association, v. the Territory 

 of Alaska, a test case to decide the constitutionality of the act, with 

 instructions to overrule the demurrer and for further proceedings not 

 inconsistent with the opinion of the appellate court. The case was 

 reopened in the United States district court at Juneau, with presenta- 

 tion of arguments on both sides in July, but no decision had been 

 rendered at the close of the year. 



TERRITORIAL LICENSE TAX 



Fisheries license taxes were collected by the Territory under the 

 general revenue law of 1921, as amended in 1923, 1925, and 1927. A 

 statement from W. G. Smith, Territorial treasurer, under date of 

 May 2, 1932, gives the collections made to that date for the year 1931. 

 It was stated that collections under the several schedules were fairly 

 complete, although a considerable number of the smaller fisheries 

 companies had not yet made settlement. The outstanding salmon 

 pack taxes, including some gear taxes, amounted to approximately 

 $35,000; while about $2,700 was still to be collected on fish oil and 

 fertilizer. 



Fishery license taxes collected by Territory for fiscal year ended December 31, 1931 



Schedule 



Division 

 No. 1 



Division 

 No. 2 



Division 

 No. 3 



Total 



Salmon canneries (pack) 



Clam canneries 



Salteries 



Cold-storage plants 



Fresh-fish dealers 



Fish-oil works and fertilizer and fish-meal plants. 



Fish traps 



Gill nets 



Seines 



$157, 795. 86 



56.19 



1, 826. 35 



700. 00 



1,472.45 



15, 443. 85 



72, 961. 55 



510.00 



3, 665. 00 



$42.46 



.$307, 406. 37 



194. 51 



1, 178. 58 



125. 00 



7.00 



2, 189. 16 



48, 209. 49 



4, 593. 42 



2, 135. 00 



$465, 202. 23 



250. 70 



3, 047. 39 



825. 00 



1, 479. 45 



17, 633. 01 



121,171.04 



5, 136. 42 



5, 800. 00 



Total 



Salmon canneries (net income), not possible of segrega- 

 tion as to judicial division 



254, 431. 25 



75.46 



366, 038. 53 



620, 545. 24 

 3, 213. 73 



Total collections. 



623, 758. 97 



