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The use of purse seines and floating traps for the capture of salmon is 
prohibited. 
3. The distance by most direct water measurement from any part of one 
t “ap to any part of another trap shall not be less than 2,500 feet. c 
4. Twenty-five feet of the heart walls on each side next to the pot and 
the bottom strip of wire of the pots of all hand traps shall be removed 
during the closed season for commercial salmon fishing from 6 o'clock post- 
meridian, August 10, to 6 o’clock antemeridian, August 25, of each calendar year. 
5. The total aggregate length of gill nets on any salmon fishing boat, or 
in use by such boat, shall not exceed 200 fathoms hung measure. 
6. All commercial fishing is prohibited. as follows 
(a) Within 2 statute miles of the mouths of Kasilof and Kenai Rivers, and 
within 1 statute mile of all other salmon streams. 
(b) Turnagain Arm and Knik Arm: All waters above a line from Point 
Possession to the western limit of the closed area around the mouth vf the 
Susitna River. 
(ec) Chinik Inlet, Kamishak Bay: All waters within the inlet. 
(d@) Kachemak Bay: All waters above a line from Indian Island to a point 
on the opposite shore one-half mile below the mouth of Swift Creek. 
Steelhead fishery—Commercial fishing for steelhead trout shall be subject to 
the provisions of law and the regulations applicable to commercial fishing for 
salmon. 
Herring fishery.—1l. Commercial fishing for herring is prohibited during the 
period from January 1 to July 14, both dates inclusive, in each calendar year. 
Commercial fishing for herring, except by set and drift gill nets, is also pros 
hibited from Octcber 15 to Dec ember 31. both dates inclusive, in each calendar 
year. 
2. Commercial fishing for herring in Halibut Cove, including the waters 
within a line from the light on Ismailof Island to the outermost point on 
Glacier Spit, is limited to gill nets. 
3. Commercial fishing fcr herring in Halibut Cove Lagoon is limited to set 
gill nets not exceeding 50 fathoms in length, hung measure. All such nets 
shall be anchored in a substantia! manner not less than 100 yards apart. 
4. Nets operated within areas marked at the north and south ends of Halibut 
Cove Lagoon shall be anchored at right angles to the line joining the markers. 
Nets operated between these areas shall-be anchored in a general direction 
paralleling the shore line. 
5). The closed seasons herein specified for commercial herring fishing shall 
not apply to the taking of herring for bait purposes in waters otherwise open 
to fishing. 
6. Commercial fishing for herring, except for bait purposes, is prohibited from 
6 o'clock postmeridian cf Saturday of each week until 6 o’clock antemeridian 
of the Monday following. 
7. The maintaining of a herring pound or the dumping of offal and dead 
herring in the waters of Halibut Cove and Lagcon is prohibited. 
8. Gill nets used in catching herring shall not be of smaller mesh than 3 
inches stretched measure. 
9. No one shall place, or cause to be placed, across the entrance of any 
lagoon or bay any net or other device which will prevent the free passage at 
all times of herring in and out of said lagoon or bay. 
Clam fishery.—It is prohibited to take for commercial. purposes any razor 
clam measuring less than 4144 inches in total length of shell. Possession of 
any razor clam of less than this length will be regarded as prima facie evidence 
of unlawful taking. 
VIII. RESURRECTION BAY AREA 
The Resurrection Bay area is hereby defined to include all territorial coastal 
and tributary waters of the Gulf of Alaska between Point Gore on the west 
and Cape Fairfield on the east. 
Salmon fishery.—1. The total aggregate length of gill nets on any salmon 
fishing boat, or in use by such boat, shall not exceed 200 fathoms hung measure. 
2. No set or anchored gill net shall exceed 300 yards in length, and each 
shall be set in substantially a straight line: Provided, That not to exceed 20 
yards of each net may be used as a hook. Only one such hook is permitted on 
a net. There shall be a distance interval of at least 200 yards, both endwise 
and laterally, at all times between all set Gr anchored gill nets ‘operated. 
