FISHERY INDUSTRIES. 



As in corresponding reports for previous years, the Territory of 

 Alaska is here considered in the three coastal geographic sections 

 generally recognized, as follows : Southeast Alaska, embracing all 

 that narrow strip of mainland and the numerous adjacent islands 

 from Portland Canal northwestward to and including Yakutat Bay ; 

 central Alaska, the region on the Pacific from Yakutat Bay west- 

 ward, including Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet, and the southern 

 coast of Alaska Peninsula, to Unimak Pass; and western Alaska, the 

 north shore of the Alaska Peninsula, including the Aleutian Islands 

 westward from Unimak Pass, Bristol Bay, and the Kuskokwim and 

 Yukon Rivers. These divisions are solely for statistical purposes and 

 do not coincide with districts made under reservations created during 

 the calendar year, which include areas from both the central and 

 western statistical divisions. 



Detailed reports and statistical tables dealing with the various 

 fishery industries are presented herewith, and there are also given the 

 important features of certain subjects that were the objects of special 

 investigation or inquiry. 



WATERS CLOSED TO COMMERCIAL FISHING. 



Restrictions and limitations imposed by previous orders of the De- 

 partment of Commerce prohibited all commercial fishing in the 

 streams and lakes of Alaska and within a zone extending 500 yards off 

 the mouths of all streams, with the exception of the Ugashik and Kar- 

 luk Rivers, wliere, owing to peculiar geographic conditions, specified 

 districts remained open to fishing. Executive orders previously issued 

 remain in effect also with regard to the Afognak Reservation, Aleu- 

 tian Islands Reservation, Yes Bay and Stream, and the Annette 

 Island Fishery Reserve. Executive orders issued in 1922 established 

 two new reservations — the Alaska Peninsula Fisheries Reservation 

 and the Southwestern Alaska Fisheries Reservation. 



ALASKA PENINSULA FISHERIES RESERVATION. 



By Executive order of February 17, 1922, the Alaska Peninsula 

 Fisheries Reservation was created. It extends eastward from the 

 Aleutian Islands Reservation to a line from Foggy Cape, on the 

 eastern end of Sutwik Island, to Cape Menshikof, on the northern 

 shore of the Alaska Peninsula, and includes the Shumagin Islands 

 and the territorial waters adjacent to these lauds and also the lands 

 of the Aleutian Islands Reservation. The text of the order is as 

 follows : 



In addition to the islands of the Aleutian Chain, Alaska, withdrawn and 

 made a preserve and breeding ground for native birds, for the propagation of 

 reindeer and fur-bearing animals, and for the encouragement and development 

 of fisheries, by the Executive order of March 3, 1913 (No. 1733), as modified 



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