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with seine boat T-1420 inside the markers at Harrison Lagoon. 

 The operator of the seine boat U-lOG was fined $fOO for fishing foi- 

 fox feed in the head of Landlocked Bay after the close of the lishing 

 season. The tender Fidelity, of the Glacier Packing Co., was seized 

 on July 28 for bringing in fish that had been killed more than 48 hours. 

 On trial before the United States commissioner at Cordova the super- 

 intendent of the company pleaded guilty to wanton waste of salmon 

 and was fined $500. 



A fisherman found operating an anchored net at Cottonwood Point 

 was fined $200, one operating an anchored net in the protected area 

 at the mouth of Little River was fined $100 on each of two counts, 

 and two others using anchored nets in the Copper River area were 

 fined $100 each. Two shackles of net illegally set for fishing off the 

 entrance to Gumboot Creek and a net near Tiedeman Slough were 

 seized, the owners not being apprehended in either case. Amounts 

 realized from the sale of salmon that were seized in connection with 

 the violations in the Seward-Katalla district totaled $156.30, which 

 proceeds w^ere turned over to the district court at Valdez, 



In the Cook Inlet area a trap of the Snug Harbor Packing Co. on 

 the southeast end of Chisik Island was seized for fishing during a 

 weekly closed period. The case was tried before the commissioner at 

 Seldovia, and fines of $150 and $100 were imposed on the company 

 and the watchman, respectively, the latter having admittedly diso- 

 beyed instructions in keeping the trap open. The Kenai River 

 Packing Co. was fined $150 for operating a trap of a modified hammer- 

 head type, the tunnel to the pot being made of wire webbing, so 

 arranged that it could not be closed, and with no provision for lowering 

 25 feet of the webbing next to the pot, as required by law. The 

 Alaska Year Round Canneries Co. was charged with a similar offense, 

 the illegal feature of their trap being the lack of provision for lowering 

 the w^ebbing next to the pot, and a fine of $50 was assessed. 



A case was brought before the commissioner at Anchorage against 

 the Point Possession Fish Co. for operating nine set gill nets during 

 a weekly closed period, resulting in a fine of $500. Seven gill nets 

 belonging to the Spur Fish Corporation were seized for fishing during 

 a weekly closed period. As it was evident that the violation was due 

 to a nfisunderstanding regarding the time required for removing such 

 nets from the water, the fisherman w^as not prosecuted, but the com- 

 pany was charged with the offense and, pleading guilty through its 

 representative, was fined $70, upon payment of which the nets were 

 released. An independent fisherman was charged wdth illegal fishing 

 on six separate counts, the violations consisting of the operation of set 

 gill nets wdthin 600 feet of other fixed fishing appliances located on 

 Salamato Beach. On trial before the local commissioner the defend- 

 ant pleaded guilty to one count and was sentenced to 90 days in jail, 

 with a fine of $500, the other counts being dismissed. A complaint 

 filed against two gill-net operators for fishing before the commercial 

 season opened was dropped because of insufficient evidence. 



A gill-net operator was arrested for fishing during a weekly closed 

 period in the Karluk area and w^as taken before the commissioner at 

 Kodiak, where he entered plea of guilty and was fined $250. A trap 

 owned by the Northwestern Fisheries Co. and operated by the Colum- 

 bia River Packers Association at Hook Bay was seized for fishing 

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