ALASKA FISHERY 
AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES 
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Details of complaints and prosecutions involving violations of Alaska fishery laws and 
regulations in 1939—Continued 
Class of gear 


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Purse seine 
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Fish trap 39-417______- 
Fish trap 39~247____--- 
Gill net boat Erna___- 
Seine boat Leccolite___ 
Fish trap 39-393_______ 
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WRANGELL-PETERSBURG DISTRICT—Continued 


Name of offender 
not appre- 
Owner: Alaska Pacific 
Salmon Co. Watch- 
men: George Lind- 
berg and Walter 
Day. 
Owner: Alaska Pacific 
Salmon Co. Watch- 
men: Aubrey 
Sehmidt and Olaf 
Gordon. 
Thomas Rustad____-_-- 
Joe Petticrew, Ever- 
ett Petticrew and 
Alan McKay. 
Scow 
Co. 
Martin Nore- -=--22-= 
Bay Packing 



Nature of offense 
Disposition of case 

Barricading mouth of Big 
Creek, Red Bay. 
Found in closed waters at 
head of Log Cabin Lake. 
Found in Andrews Creek, 
a tributary of Stikine 
River. 
Fishing during 
closed period. 
seasonal 
Carrying three nets aboard 
fishing vessel, Red Bay. 
Fishing in closed waters of 
Salmon Bay. 
Fishing during seasonal 
closed period. 
Fishing within 500 yards of 
the mouth of Stikine 
River with egal type of 
gear. 

Gear confiscated. Fish 
seized, value $13.75. 
Gear confiscated. Fish 
released. 
Gear confiscated and de- 
troyed. 
Company fined $1,000. 
Fined $50. 
Trial in district court at 
Ketchikan, without jury. 
Fined $219.43. Costs as- 
sessed $135.80. . Fish 
seized, value $430.57. 
Sixty-day jail sentence 
against each of the Petti- 
crews, suspended. 
Fined $100. 
Fined $25 on each of two 
counts. 

JUNEAU DISTRICT 


Fish trap 39-402______- 
Seine boat Skipjack___ 
Seine boat 31-B-185___ 
Seine boat Agnes___._- 
Seine boat Starlite_____ 

Owner: Alaska Pacific 
Salmon Co. Watch- 
men: A. J. Bebean 
and Antone Thom- 
sen. 
Ame! Teague, R. W. 
Brundage, Alex 
Hurman,and Albert 
Sharp. 
Fred Miller 
Frank Wooten 
Fishing during weekly closed 
period. 
Fishing in closed waters of 
Saginaw Bay. 
Fishing for fox feed during 
seasonal closed period in 
Pybus Bay. 
do 
David Howard, Joe | Fishing at mouth of stream 
Johnson, 
John. 
Charles | 
Jacob, and Ernest- 
in Nakwasina Passage. 
Jury trial in district court. 
Company fined $750. 
A. J. Bebean fined $150. 
A. Thomsen found not 
guilty. 
Teague fined $50; each of 
others fined $25. Fish 
released. Ninety-day 
jail sentence against each 
man suspended. 
Fined $40. Costs assessed 
$5. 
Fined $40. Costs assessed 
$9.50. 
Captain Howard fined $50 
and 3 crew members each 
$25; fines suspended. 


SEWARD-KATALLA DISTRICT 


Clam digging 
Gill net boat 31-B-536_ 
Gill net boat 31-C-326- 
Gill net boat 31-C-665_ 
Gill net boat 31-D-863- 
Gill net boat 31—A-742_ 
Gill net boat 31-B-819_ 
Gill net boat Hmma__- 

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Henry Mattson 
Joe Anderson_____---- 
Sigurd) Ness==- == - 
Harris Makis 
Bill Skuffis and Mike 
Mitchel. 
Einer Nelson__--__-_---- 
Jack Brady 
Walter Hansenand A. | 
L. Clift. 
2 

Taking clams less than 414 
inches in length for com- 
mercial purpose. 
Fishing in closed waters at 
Cottonwood Point. 
Fishing in closed waters near 
Russian River. 
Fishing in closed waters be- 
tween Cottonwood Point 
and Kokenhenik Island. 
Fishing with anchored nets 
during weekly closed per- 
iod in Bering River area. 

Fined $25. 
Fined $50. Fish seized, 
value $10.50. 
Fined $50. Fish seized, 
value $8.70. 
Fined $25. Fish seized, 
value $6.60. 
Each man fined $15. 
Fined $25. 
Do. 
Each man fined $25. Fish 
seized, value $39.80. 
