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U.S. 
BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Details of complaints and prosecutions involving violations of Alaska fishery laws and 
regulations in 1939 
KETCHIKAN DISTRICT 



Class of gear 

Name of offender 

Seine boat Bogdan__--| Mike Ukropina__-_---- 
Seine boat Mermaid__- 
Fish trap 39-442______- 
Seine boat Tyee__----- 
Seine boat Claire_____- 
Seine boat Jslander___- 
Seine boat Sea Rose__- 
Trolling boat Her- 
cules. 
Trolling boat 
381-A-276. 
Seine boat Ann Page_- 
Seine boat Justna 
Deanna. 
Fish trap 39-392_______ 
Trolling boat Thelma_ 
Trolling boat Jean- 
etta. 
Trolling boat Lorena__ 
Seine boat Sea Hag__- 
Seine boat Bertha_____ 
Seine boat Alert______- 


James Leask, James 
Leask, Jr., Harry 
Leask, William Pe- 
ratovich, and James 
Tatsuda. 
Owner: Estate of H. 
Pinkerton, repre- 
sented by W. S. 
Baleom. Watch- 
men: Harry Bolt 
and Ben Arnold. 
Angelo Bussanich, 
Nels Henderson, 
and B. Gomez. 
Solomon Guthrie, 
Ralph Bolton, Sr., 
and Mathias Simp- 
son. 
T.J. Brown and H. F. 
Godirey. 
Richard Bratland, 
Charles Moore, 
Charles Granger, 
Al Cummings, and 
Arthur Orr. 
John Heikkila and 
George Wheeler. 
PetevkKnutsensss--=- 
George Kegan, John 
Dexter, Arthur 
Hobbs, Frank How- 
ard, Benson Johns, 
and Jim Barton. 
George S. James, Rob- 
ert Snook, John An- 
niskit, and Sheldon 
James. 

Nature of offense 
Disposition of case 

Fishing during weekly 
closed period in Behm 
Narrows, Behm Canal. 
Fishing within 5C0 yards 
of mouth of a salmon 
stream in Leask Cove, 
George Inlet. 
Fishing during weekly 
closed period. 
Fishing during weekly 
closed period in Boca de 
Quadra. 
Fishing in closed waters of 
Very Inlet. 
Fishing in closed waters of 
Behm Canal at Roe Point. 
Fishing during weekly 
closed period off Point 
Nelson. 
Fishing during weekly 
closed period in Behm 
Canal. ? 
Fishing during seasonal 
closed period in Kegan 
Cove, Moira Sound. 
Fishing in closed waters of 
Karta Bay. 


Fined $50. Fish seized, 
value $35.67. 
Case dismissed. 
Owner fined $200. Watch- 
men fined $50 each. 
Each man fined $50. Costs 
assessed $87.55. Fish 
seized, value $204.73. 
Fined $50. 
Fined $50. Fish seized, 
value $130.60. 
Fined $125. Fish seized, 
value $345.51. 
30-day suspended sentence. 
Do. 
Each man fined $50. 
Each man fined $100. 

SOUTH PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND DISTRICT 
Scow Bay Packing Co_ 
ING Nelson. 38222" 
PY Al lainist+ a pees 
Paul Nelson and Wil- 
liam Jones. 
Ray Hammer, War- 
ren Todd and, Harry 
J. McCallister. 
Frederick George, | 
Robert Cogo, Rob- 
inson Beatty, and | 
Seymour J. Samuel- 
son. 


Fishing during seasonal 
closed period. 
Fishing during weekly 
closed period near McLeod 
Bay, Dall Island. 
Fishing with short gill nets 
in salmon stream near 
Klakas Lake. 
Fishing in closed waters of 
Keete Inlet. 

Owner fined $100. 
Case dismissed. 
Do. 
Nelson fined $50. 
fined $25. 
Case dismissed; insufficient 
evidence. Illegal gear 
destroyed. 
Defendants found not 
guilty by jury in U. S. 
Comiunissioner’s court. 
Jones 


Paul Cogo, Harry |_.___ COU ee SO ee ee Do. 
Natkong, and Thad- 
deus Morrison. 
WRANGELL-PETERSBURG DISTRICT 
Belts boat Christine | Otto Feller____________ Carrying extra seine aboard | Fined $50. Fish seized, 
Seine boat Wesley____- 
Gillet = sees ee 
Sa Nipblanvienes mean 
Owner not 
appre- 
hended. Be 
fishing vessel at Thoms 
Place. : 
Fishing in closed waters of 
Bradfield Canal. 
Anchored gill net less than 
50 fathoms in length fish- 
ing in closed waters of 
Red Bay. 
value $1.18. 
Fined $50. Costs assessed 
$9.50. 
Gear confiscated. Fish 
released. 
