FISHERY INDUSTRIES. 15 



A complaint was made before the United States commissioner at 

 Ketchikan on August 18, 1917, against J. S. Hume, superintendent 

 of the Nakat Inlet cannery of the G. W. Hume Co., charging the 

 operation of a trap on the north shore of Kanagunut Island on 

 August 6 and 7 without a sign bearing the name, number, or other 

 distinctive mark, contrary to the general regulations promulgated 

 under the authority of section 11 of the act of June 26, 1906. The 

 case was called for trial on August 24, at which time a plea of guilty 

 was entered, whereupon a fine of $25 and costs was imposed. 



On August 24, a complaint was made before the United States 

 commissioner at Wrangeil against Frank Adams, who was charged 

 with unlawful fishing on Sunday, August 12, and with the setting of 

 nets in the Stikine River for a distance greater than one-third the 

 •mdth of the channel. A plea of guilty being entered, the defendant 

 was discharged upon payment of the costs of the case. 



In October, 1917, the grand jury at Juneau indicted the Alaska 

 Pacific Fisheries for four violations of the fishery law during the 

 season of 1917. Two of these indictments alleged that the company 

 operated two traps on Lynn Canal, one each at Sand Spit and Seduc- 

 tion Point, without proper signs to indicate their ownership; another 

 charged a nonobservance of the weekly close period in respect to a 

 trap operated at Idaho Inlet on August 11. The remaining indict- 

 ment was based upon the allegation that the company on or about 

 August 15 installed a floating trap within less than 600 yards later- 

 ally of a trap then in operation by the Thlinket Packing Co., near 

 Village Point on the north shore of Icy Strait. When these cases 

 were called for trial at Juneau on December 15, pleas of guilty were 

 entered in respect to the operation of traps on Lynn Canal and Idaho 

 Inlet as alleged, and fines of $300 and costs and $500 and costs were 

 paid, respectively. The case involving an encroachment on the 

 distance interval between traps was called but was continued until a 

 temi of the court to be held in the spring of 1918. 



The Northwestern Fisheries Co. was also indicted by the grand 

 jury at Juneau in October for a violation of the weekly close season 

 on Sunday, August 26, 1917. A pound net in Tolstoi Bay on the 

 east coast of Prince of Wales Island wa,s found to be improperly 

 closed. The case was called for trial at Ketchikan on November 

 15, when the company pleaded guilty. A fine of $500 was paid. 



On Sunday, August 12, 1917, the heart walls of nine traps operated 

 by the Deep Sea Salmon Co. in Port Althorp were found not to be 

 adjusted in accordance with law. This matter was taken before the 

 United States commissioner at Juneau on October 5, formal charge 

 being made against Jens Kvalvik, trap foreman, who entered a 

 plea of guilty, whereupon a fine of $250 was imposed. 



The Alaska Packers Association was convicted of the wanton 

 waste of salmon on Cook Inlet in 1914 at a term of the district court 

 held at Valdez in September, 1916. The case was carried to the 

 circuit court of appeals at San Francisco which, in an opinion delivered 

 in the summer of 1917, upheld the lower court. 



The case against the Canoe Pass Packing Co. charging the wanton 

 waste of salmon on July 22 and 23, 1916, at Windy Bay, Prince 

 William Soimd, came to trial at. Cordova in April, 1917, and resulted 

 in an acquittal of the company. 



