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was taken before the Commissioner’s court at Seldovia, where he 
pleaded not guilty. As he had been apprehended with others earlier 
in the season fishing in McNeil Creek and had been dismissed with a 
warning, he was bound over to the District Court under $500 bond. 
When the case came before the Grand Jury in November, it returned a 
nontrue bill. 
Fines of $50 each were assessed by the Commissioner at Anchorage 
against Buster Ephin and George Johnson, apprehended for operating 
set gill nets during a weekly closed period in Cook Inlet, the former 
having three set nets about 5 miles southwest of Point Possession on 
June 13, and the latter using a set gill net on June 6 and two of such 
nets on June 13 in Lewis River Slough. 
Prosecutions were brought before the Commissioner at Seldovia 
against Michel McDonough and Frank Manton for operating three 
set gill nets about three-fourths mile south of Cape Kasilof during a 
weekly closed period. The latter claimed sole responsibility for the 
violation and pleaded guilty as charged. The court assessed a penalty 
of 30 days in jail and suspended the sentence. An anchored gill net, 
found fishing between Beluga River and Three Mile Creek during a 
weekly closed period, was seized and 10 king salmon therein were sold 
for the account of the Government. Later it was learned that the net 
belonged to Mrs. T. B. Ryan and that she was fishing for her dogs. 
After due investigation and conference with the United States Attor- 
ney, the net and the money received from the sale of the salmon were 
returned to the owner. 
In the Kodiak area, two gill-net fishermen, Frank Marshall and 
Mike Naumoff, were arraigned before the Commissioner at Kodiak 
for fishing in Olga Bay during a weekly closed period. They pleaded 
cuilty and were fined $25 each. Operators of three purse seine boats 
in this area also were brought before the Commissioner’s court at 
Kodiak, where they pleaded guilty and were fined, as follows: Pat 
Gowan and L. Rachford, fined $25 each for setting seine from the 
Jaquelin alongside another purse seine in the Karluk district, after 
having been warned to observe the 100-yard distance interval; and 
Edwin Liljegren, operator of the Z & W, and Ben Durkee, operator 
of the Triton, fined $75 and $100, respectively, for fishing along Seven 
Mile Beach during a seasonal closed period. Seized fish, consisting 
of 2,411 pinks and 160 chums, from the L & W were sold for $123.70, 
and 3,439 pinks and 803 chums from the Triton were sold for $195.03. 
In the Alaska Peninsula area, the purse seine boat Blanche, com- 
manded by John Bacoka, was apprehended on June 17 for fishing 
about one-quarter mile from a salmon trap in East Anchor Cove. 
Upon trial before the Commissioner at Squaw Harbor, the defendant 
pleaded guilty and was fined $75, with a warning also that any future 
violations by operators in the district would receive sterner action. 
Fish aboard the vessel at the time of the seizure were valued at less 
than $3 and were not confiscated. Andrew Hotovitsky, beach seiner 
commanding the gas boat Swinomish, was apprehended on July 22 for 
fishing in closed waters at the mouth of a salmon stream in Little 
Canoe Bay. He pleaded guilty in the Commissioner’s court and was 
fined $200. His forfeited fish, consisting of 1,238 chums and 294 
pinks, were sold for $82.37. 
Evidence of illegal fishing in Thin Point Lagoon resulted in investi- 
gation of Andrew Hotovitsky and Alex Bendixsen. Circumstances 
