284 U. 8S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
[Aug. 17, 1936] 
SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA AREA 
WESTERN DISTRICT 
Salmon fishery.—Regulation No. 8 is amended so as to permit commercial 
fishing for salmon south of 58 degrees north latitude until 6 o’clock postmeridian 
August 19. 
Revised regulations effective in 1937 for the protection of the fisher- 
ies of Alaska were issued by the Secretary of Commerce under date 
of February 8, 1937, copies of which may be secured, without cost, on 
application to the Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, Die 
ANNETTE ISLAND FISHERY RESERVE 
The salmon cannery at Metlakatla in the Annette Island Fishery 
Reserve was again operated by the Annette Island Canning Co., under 
its lease from the Department of the Interior. 
Eight salmon traps were operated by the company, the total catch 
of which numbered 2,313,927 salmon, and 133,189 salmon taken by 
seines in the waters of the reservation were purchased from natives. 
In addition, 1,133,825 salmon were purchased from independent 
operators of seines, ‘traps, and gill nets outside the reserve. Of the 
total number of fish obtained, 568,114 were sold to other canneries 
and the remainder were packed at the company’s plant. In the 
operation of the cannery and fish traps, employment was given to 
54 whites and 221 natives. 
Profits to the Metlakatlan Indians of the reserve on the cannery 
operations for 1935, under the provisions of the lease, amounted to 
$73,221.45. Preliminary estimates for the year 1936 place the figure 
at about $75,000. 
STREAM IMPROVEMENT 
Except for the projects carried on with W. P. A. funds, there was no 
special program of stream improvement in 1936. The most impor- 
tant achievement was the construction of a 70-foot concrete fish ladder, 
consisting of 14 steps, over the falls in the red-salmon stream at the 
head of Pavlof Harbor. Formerly salmon could ascend to the spawn- 
ing grounds on the stream only on the highest tides; during the past 
season salmon passed upstream through the fishway at all. stages of 
the tide. Improvements were made in the falls of Anan Creek by 
the removal of several large boulders, so changing the course and 
velocity of the water as to make the upper stream more readily 
accessible to salmon. 
Preliminary surveys were made of the streams in central Alaska 
and Bristol Bay to determine the need for improvement work, and 
plans were made for blasting steps in the falls between Brooks Lake 
and Naknek Lake in the spring of 1937. Beaver dams were removed 
from several of the important salmon spawning streams in English 
Bay and Kalsin Bay, in the Kodiak area, and in the Kaloin Tsland 
stream in Cook Inlet. In addition, wardens and temporary employees 
removed the less serious obstructions which they encountered during 
the examination of spawning grounds. 
The destruction of predatory Dolly Varden trout in the Bristol Bay 
district was continued with special allotments of Government funds 
and with contributions from salmon packers of that district. The 
