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tion of the Alaska Military Telegraph & Cable System. The pur- 

 pose of this service is to make available to the fishermen in the sev- 

 eral localities the market quotations on halibut, sablefish, red rock- 

 fish, and herring in the important buying centers of Ketchikan and 

 Seattle. 



VIOLATIONS OF THE FISHERIES LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 



During the season of 1922 there were 17 prosecutions in the Bristol 

 Bay district. In each case the offense consisted in tishing at various 

 distances above the Government markers in the Naknek and Ugashik 

 Rivers, The fines and costs aggregated $2,137.25. 



On Saturday, June 17, Stream Guard Neil C. Gallagher appre- 

 hended Jack Moore, Peter Kanosh, and Moses Smith while trolling 

 for salmon in Port Frederick during the weekly close season. Each 

 man was using a power boat and fishing with more than one line. 

 They were arraigned before the United States commissioner at 

 Hoonah, pleaded guilty, and each paid a fine of $1 and costs. 



On Sunday, June 25, during a patrol off Port Alexander and Cape 

 Ommaney, Earle L. Hunter, master of the Petrel, found Charles 

 Olsen, P. Peterson, and L. M. Hair, of Ketchikan, and Edwai'd 

 Thompson and John Thompson, of Seattle, trolling for salmon with 

 power boats, contrary to law and regulations. They were ordered to 

 stop fishing and to go to Port Alexander, where notice was served 

 on each one informing him that he would be reported to the United 

 States attorney for prosecution. In due time this was done, and the 

 attorney advised that he would endeavor to have the Unalga, then at 

 Juneau, go to Port Alexander so that he could dispose of the cases, 

 but the commanding officer demurred on the ground that Chatham 

 Strait, in the region of Port Alexander, was unsurveyed and that he 

 could not risk his vessel in those waters. Therefore these cases have 

 rot come to trial. 



On June 24 Warden O'Connor found Richard T. Marshall trolling 

 for salmon off Point Gardiner at 6.50 p. m. with four lines from a 

 power boat. No action was taken against him as he had but 

 recently returned to Alaska from school in Oregon and probably had 

 not heard that a notice had been issued earlier in the season warning 

 all fishermen that trolling for salmon during the Aveekly close season, 

 except by line held in the hand, was unlawful. 



On July 9 at 1.10 p. m. Warden O'Connor found a trap on Pleas- 

 ant Island and one on Porpoise Island in Icy Strait, operated by the 

 Thlinket Packing Corporation, Avith the pot tunnels open. On July 

 IG he found a trap at Wilson Cove, owned and operated by the Wil- 

 son Fisheries Co., with the tunnel but partly closed and the heart 

 walls opened 44 and 23 inches, respectivel}', at one hour before low 

 water. These matters were laid before the United States attorney, 

 who decided that as they were largely technical offenses it was not 

 worth while to take them up. 



On August 9 O. Benjaminson. O. Odsera, and O. E. Fasness made 

 a set with a purse seine within 500 yards of the mouth of a salmon 

 stream 2 miles north of Point Barrie, Kupreanof Island, where 

 Lawrence L. Hick was stationed as stream guard. The case was re- 

 ported to the commissioner at Wrangell. and warrants were issued 

 and served on Benjaminson and Odsera. They were brought to trial 



