ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1&22. 



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reservation or between any district or zone witliin the reservation and any 

 outside district. 



5. Tlie pack of each plant shall be made exclusively from the proceeds of 

 the fishing gear specifically allotted to it. Transfer of salmon from one plant 

 to another will not be permitted ; but nothing in these regulations shall prevent 

 the purchase of salmon from natives or local inhabitants who have secured 

 permits to fish. 



6. Fox farmers may take and prepare salmon for fox feed in all legal ways 

 but must secure permits from the Secretary of Commerce. 



7. These regulations shall be subject to such annual revision by the Secretary 

 of Commerce as may appear advisable in view of the investigation and the 

 experience of the preceding season. They shall be in full force and effect 

 immediately from and after date of issue. 



Ten formal permits for commercial salmon-canning operations by 

 established plants Avithin the reservation were granted for the season 

 of 1922, as shown in the table below, which gives also the pack of 

 canned salmon in the reservation. A permit was also granted to 

 George Albert, of Port Heiden, for the salting of not over 700 barrels 

 of all species of salmon, and 30 permits were issued to local residents 

 by Warden J. N. Braiin, the bureau's representative in the district, for 

 fishery operations upon a small scale. Approximately 1,570 barrels 

 of salted salmon were prepared under these minor permits. 



Pack of canned salmon in the Alaska Peninsula Fisheries Reservation, Alaska, 



in J 922. 



' Included in this pack were 520 chum, 312 king, and 194,045 red salmon purchased from a cannery at 

 Ugasbik River, hence not taken from the waters of the reservation. 



SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA FISHERIES RESERVATION. 



With the rapid depletion of the salmon fisheries in other parts of 

 Alaska and the realization that an exodus from the less profitable 

 districts would probably soon occur to such districts as still main- 

 tained large runs of the valuable red salmon the bureau felt that 

 some definite action should be taken at once to secure broad enough 

 control of these districts to regulate operations properly and con- 

 serve the runs in their present value. Efforts had been made for 

 many years to secure the passage of a fishery law that would enable 

 effectual preservation of the fisheries of Alaska, but alwaj'S without 

 success because of the opposition of certain divergent interests. As 

 a last resort and as a more or less temporary measure pending the 



