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FISHERY INDUSTRIES 
As in corresponding reports for previous years, the Territory of 
Alaska is here considered in the three coastal geographic sections 
generally recognized, as follows: (1) Southeast Alaska, embracing 
all that narrow strip of mainland and the numerous adjacent islands 
from Portland Canal northwestward to and including Yakutat Bay; 
(2) central Alaska, the region on the Pacific from Yakutat Bay 
westward, including Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet, and the 
southern coast of Alaska Peninsula, to Unimak Pass; and (3) 
western Alaska, the north shore of the Alaska Peninsula, including 
the Aleutian Islands westward from Unimak Pass, Bristol Bay, and 
the Kuskokwim and Yukon Rivers. These divisions are solely for 
statistical purposes and do not coincide with areas established in 
departmental regulations. 
Detailed reports and statistical tables dealing with the various 
fishery industries are presented herewith, and there are also given 
the important features of certain subjects that were the objects of 
special investigation or inquiry. 
ALASKA FISHERIES LEGISLATION 
Under date of June 18, 1926, the President approved an act amend- 
ing the fisheries act of June 6, 1924. This modification of the law 
made possible the promulgation of regulations liberalizing the con- 
ditions under which halibut fishermen may secure herring for bait at 
times when commercial fishing for herring for other purposes is pro- 
hibited. The text of the amendment is as follows: 
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1 OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF JUNE 6, 1924, 
ENTITLED “AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE FISHERIES OF ALASKA, 
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES ” 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the act of Congress 
of June 6, 1924, entitled “An act for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, 
and for other purposes,” is amended so that it will read as follows: 
“Section 1. That for the purpose of protecting and conserving the fisheries 
of the United States in all waters of Alaska the Secretary of Commerce from 
time to time may set apart and reserve fishing areas in any of the waters 
of Alaska over which the United States has jurisdiction, and within such areas 
may establish closed seasons during which fishing may be limited or prohibited 
as he may prescribe. Under this authority to limit fishing in any area so set 
apart and reserved the Secretary may (a) fix the size and character of nets, 
boats, traps, or other gear and appliances to be used therein; (b) limit the 
catch of fish to be taken from any area; (c) make such regulations as to time, 
means, methods, and extent of fishing as he may deem advisable. From and 
after the creation of any such fishing area and during the time fishing is pro- 
hibited therein it shall be unlawful to fish therein or to operate therein any 
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