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passage of adequate laws by Congress the President, under date of 

 November 3, 1922, signed an Executive order creating the South- 

 western Alaska Fisheries Reservation, including the waters of Bris- 

 tol Bay, Cook Inlet, and the Kodiak-Afognak region. The text of 

 the order is as follows : 



Whereas it has become apparent that certain valuable fisheries of Alaska 

 have been seriously impaired and are in danger of further depletion, and that 

 It is necessary to establish authority to meet the exigency which has arisen for 

 the protection of these fisheries, and 



Whereas by Executive order issued under date of March 3. 1913, modified by 

 an order of August 11, 1916, a reservation known as the Aleutian Islands Res- 

 ervation was created, and by an Executive order under date of February 17, 

 1922, a reservation known as the Alaska Peninsula Fisheries Reservation was 

 created, including therein the lands and the territorial waters of the United 

 States contiguous to the lands covered by said Executive order, 



Now, therefore, I, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States of 

 America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the laws of the United States, 

 do hereby set apart as a preserve to more effectively insure the protection of 

 the fisheries and for their encouragement and development, in addition to the 

 above reservations, a reserve of lands and waters, which said reservation shall 

 be known as the Southwestern Alaska Fisheries Reservation, which shall in- 

 clude all territorial waters, and the lands within one-half mile of the shores 

 thereof, within the lines defined as follows : 



From the northeasterly point of the Alaska Peninsula Fisheries Reservation 

 at Cape Menshikof, Bristol Bay, northwesterly to a point in latitude 58° 32' 

 north, longitude 162° 12' west, off Cape Newenham ; thence to a point in lati- 

 tude 59° 15' north, longitude 162° 0' west; thence eastward along parallel of 

 latitude 59° 15' north, to longitude 155° west; thence to a point in latitude ^1° 

 20' north, longitude 151° 20' west; thence to a point in latitude 61° 20' north, 

 longitude 150° 10' west ; thence to a point in latitude 61° 35' north, longitude 

 149° 40' west ; thence to a point in latitude 61° 35' north, longitude 149° 0' 

 west ; thence to a point in latitude 60° 40' north, longitude 149° 0' west ; thence 

 to a point in latitude 60° 40' north, longitude 151° 0' west; thence to a point 

 in latitude 57° 30' north, longitude 151° west ; thence to a point in latitude 

 55° 0' north, longitude 157° 0' west; thence to low-water mark at the eastern 

 extremity of Foggy Cape on Sutwik Island ; thence to point of beginning. 



Fishery operations within the said Southwestern Alaska Fisheries Reserva- 

 tion shall be subject to such regulations and restrictions as shall be issued by 

 the Secretary of Commerce, in addition to the general fisheries laws and regu- 

 lations of the United States as administered by the Secretary of Commerce. 



The reservation hereby established shall not interfere with the use of the 

 waters, islands, or other lands embraced therein for any purpose not incon- 

 sistent therewith, nor with the operation therein of the laws novi^ or hereafter 

 applicable to the public lands in Alaska, nor with the respective jurisdictions of 

 the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior thereover. 



Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to fish in 

 or use any of the waters herein described or mentioned. 



Following the issuance and publication of the order, announcement 

 was made that the Commissioner of Fisheries would hold hearings at 

 Seattle on November 21 and at San Francisco on November 28, at 

 which all interested persons were invited to be present and discuss 

 the conditions and needs of the fishery, in order to establish a basis 

 of information for the issuance of the necessary regulations and the 

 granting of permits for operations to be carried on in 1923. Dr. 

 Charles H. Gilbert, of Stanford University, who conducted extensive 

 investigations in southwestern Alaska during the season of 1922, was 

 present at and assisted in the conduct of the hearings. Dennis Winn, 

 agent, Alaska service, who was in the Bristol Bay region during the 

 fishing season, and Ransom L. Wilkins, who was stationed in Cook 

 Inlet district, were present at the Seattle hearing. 



