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U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Sprague to continue the duties of preparing and submitting a report 

 on certain subjects in connection with the sabnon fisheries and to 

 carry on experiments of fish culture, appropriating $12,000 for these 

 purposes. 



Another act amended the bcense tax law of 1921, as amended in 

 1923 and 1925, by providing for the taxmg of fish traps under two 

 classifications — (1) hand-driven or stake traps on tide lands, $50 per 

 annum; and (2) pile-driven or floating traps, including so-called 

 "dummy" traps, $200 per annum. 



For the purpose of protecting the salmon runs agatnet the depreda- 

 tions of hair seals, a measure was adopted on May 3, 1927, effective 

 immediately upon approval, placing a bounty of $2 on every hair seal 

 inhabiting the inland waters and all waters adjacent to the southern 

 coast of Alaska and east of the one hundred and fifty-second meridian. 



An act approved May 2, 1927, authorized the territorial treasurer 

 to refund to Libby, McNeill & Libby the sum of $200 paid for license 

 of a certain trap in 1925, which could not be operated because of 

 prohibitive regulations issued by the Federal Government after the 

 securing of the license. 



TERRITORIAL LICENSE TAX 



Fisheries license taxes were collected by the Territory under the 

 general revenue law of 1921, as amended in 1923, 1925, and 1927. 

 A statement from W. G. Smith, Territorial treasurer, under date of 

 April 14, 1928, gives the collections made to that date for the year 

 1927. It was stated that collections imder the several schedules 

 were fairly complete, with the exception of pack taxes due from a 

 few of the smaller canneries and salteries and the sum of $8,619.37 

 due under the whale-oil and fertilizer tax schedule. 



Fishery license taxes collected by Territory for fiscal year ended December 31, 1927 



Schedule 



Division 

 No. 1 



Division 

 No. 2 



Division 

 No. 3 



Total 



Salmon canneries (pack) 



Clam canneries 



Salteries 



Cold-storage plants 



Fresh-fish dealers 



Fish-oil works and fertilizer and fish-meal plants. 



Fish traps 



Gill nets 



Seines 



$48, 561. 07 



$20.00 



3, 351. 78 

 1, 720. 00 



4, 948. 55 

 17, 423. 40 



121,953.91 



fiSl. 38 



•i, 835. 00 



48. 95 



$248, 658. 17 



281.37 



3, 073. 69 



510. 00 



4.37 



865. 25 



49, 163. 07 



5, 155. 30 



2, 335. 00 



Total 



Salmon canneries (net income), not possible of segre- 

 gation as to judicial division 



204, 475. 



8.95 



310, 046. 22 



Total collections - 



$297, 239. 24 



281. 37 



6, 474. 42 



2, 230. 00 



4, 952. 92 

 18, 288. 65 



171,116.98 



5, 856. 68 

 8,170.00 



514, 610. 26 

 21, 152. 07 



535, 762. 33 



BRISTOL BAY DISTRICT 



Activities of the bureau in the Bristol Bay region during the season 

 of 1927 were along the same general lines as in the preceding year, 

 consisting of a patrol of the waters during closed periods, the gather- 

 ing of data on the commercial fishery, collection of salmon scales in 

 connection with scientific studies, construction of weirs for the 

 counting of salmon at Kvichak and Ugashik Rivers, observations of 



