FISHERY INDUSTRIES. 13 
A hearing having been given at Seattle, Wash., November 25, 1918, after due notice 
in accordance with law, for the purpose of determining the advisability of making 
salmon-breeding reserves of certain waters in Alaska, and all persons having had full 
opportunity to be heard, it is hereby ordered, by virtue of the authority vested in 
me by section 6 of ‘‘An Act for the protection and regulation of the fisheries of Alaska,”’ 
approved June 26, 1906, that until further notice all fishing for salmon, or other fishing 
in the prosecution of which salmon are taken or injured, in all hereinafter-described 
waters of southeastern Alaska east of the longitude of Cape Spencer, be and is hereby 
made subject to the ne limitations and prohibitions, in addition to the general 
restrictions already applicable by virtue of existing laws and _ regulations: 
1. That fishing with all forms of apparatus is prohibited in all streams less than 
500 feet in width at the mouth at mean low tide and in all lakes and other waters 
tributary to such streams. ; ; 
2. That all fishing with purse seines and drift gill nets and all other movable fishing 
appliances, other than set nets and beach seines, is prohibited within 200 yards out- 
side the mouth at mean low tide of all streams less than 500 feet in width at their 
mouth, except at the mouths of the Chilkat and Chilkoot Rivers, where the prohibited 
distance for all fishing appliances shall be 500 yards. 
3. That all fishing with traps, stake nets, and other fixed fishing appliances, and 
set nets and beach seines is prohibited within 500 yards outside of the mouth at mean 
low tide of all streams less than 500 feet in width at their mouth. No exceptions.will 
be made in favor of any fixed fishing appliances heretofore operated within the pro- 
hibited areas. ; 
4. That the driving of salmon downstream and the causing of salmon to move 
outside the protected area at the mouth of any stream are expressly prohibited. 
5. That this order does not supersede but supplements sections 3 and 4 of the 
order promulgated by the Secretary of Commerce on November 18, 1912, which, 
respectively, prohibit all commercial fishing for salmon or other fishing in the prose- 
cution of which salmon are taken or injured ‘‘in Anan or Humpback Creek, its lagoon, 
lakes, and tributary waters, together with the region within 500 yards of the mouth of 
said creek,’’ and ‘‘in Naha stream, its lagoon, lakes, and tributary waters, above a 
line connecting the points known, respectively, as Loring Point and House Point.”’ 
Likewise this order does not supersede but supplements the order promulgated by 
the Secretary of Commerce on October 25, 1915, which similarly prohibits fishing (a) 
‘in all waters tributary to Barnes Lake, Prince of Wales Island,’’ (6) ‘‘in Hetta Creek, 
its tributary waters, and the region within 500 yards of the mouth of said creek,”’’ 
and (c) ‘“‘in Sockeye Creek, its tributary Boca de Quadra hatchery waters, and the 
region within 500 yards of the mouth of said creek.”’ 
This order becomes effective January 1, 1919. 
Limitations and prohibitions upon fishing in the following waters 
are applicable by virtue of previous orders of the Secretary of Com- 
merce: In western Alaska, Wood and Nushagak Rivers; and in cen- 
tral Alaska, all streams flowing into Cook Inlet, Eyak Lake, and a 
limitation upon fishing in Eyak River. Limitations have been 
laced upon fishing by Executive order and proclamation in the 
ollowing additional waters: Afognak Reservation, Aleutian Islands 
Reservation, Yes Bay and Stream, and the Annette Island Fishery 
Reserve. 
STREAM IMPROVEMENT. 
The work inaugurated a few years ago of removing obstructions 
in salmon streams received some attention in 1918 in southeastern 
Alaska. The streams which were opened were Anan and Whitney 
Creeks on Wrangell Island and Olive Creek on Etolin Island. Some 
log jams were removed from the upper Chilkoot River and the falls 
in Mil Creek near Wrangell were reduced sufficiently for salmon 
to EEG It is reported that beneficial results have already been 
noted. 
The importance of this work is obvious, and it is planned that in 
time, as funds and facilities permit, all streams in Alaska which were 
once open to salmon will be cleared of débris and log jams and be 
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