46 REPORTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. 



The great need of the Bureau in its task of enforcing laws and 

 regulations for the protection and control of the salmon fisheries of 

 Alaska is larger appropriations for providing additional facilities in 

 men and vessels, so that every important fishing district may be 

 fully covered. 



Late in the fiscal year, plans were made to inaugurate a vigorous 

 patrol for the fishing season of 1919, but these for the most part 

 could not be put into effect until the season was well advanced, owing 

 to the failure of the appropriations to become available. Among 

 the new features of the 1919 patrol was the use by the Navy Depart- 

 ment, at the solicitation of the Department of Commerce, of subma- 

 rine chasers in enforcing the fishery laws and regulations, employees 

 of the Alaska service being carried on these vessels. 



NEW REGULATIONS FOR SALMON FISHERIES. 



Following announcements and hearings in accordance with law, 

 and on the recommendation of the Commissioner of Fisheries, the 

 Secretary of Commerce has promulgated orders providing new 

 regulative measures for the perpetuation of the salmon supply in 

 streams of southeastern Alaska, the Copper River, and the liukon 

 River. The text of the several orders is as follows : 



SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA WATERS. (ORDER PROMULGATED DEC. 21, 1918.) 



A hearing having heen given at Seattle, Wash., November 25, 1918, after due notice 

 in accordance with law, for the purpose of determining the advisability of making 

 salmon-breeding reserves of certain waters in Alaska, and all persons having had full 

 opportunity to be heard, it is hereby ordered, by virtue of the authority vested in me 

 by section 6 of "An Act for the protection and regulation of the fisheries of Alaska," 

 approved June 26, 1906, that until further notice all fishing for salmon, or other fishing 

 in the prosecution of which salmon are taken or injured, in all hereinafter-described 

 waters of southeastern Alaska east of the longitude of Cape Spencer, be and is hereby 

 made subject to the following limitations and prohi1)itions in addition to the general 

 restrictions already applicable liy A'irtue of existing laws and regulations: 



1. That fishing with all forms of apparatus is prohibited in all streams less than 500 

 feet in mdth at the mouth at mean low tide and in all lakes and other waters tributary 

 to such streams. 



2. That all fishing with purse seines and drift gill nets and all other moval^le fishing 

 appliances, other than set nets and beach seines, is prohibited within 200 yards out- 

 side the mouth at mean low tide of all streams less than 500 feet in Avidth at their 

 mouth, except at the mouths of the Chilkatand Chilkoot Rivers, where the prohibited 

 distance for all fishing appliances shall be 500 yards, 



3. That all fishing with traps, stake nets, and other fixed fishing appliances, and set 

 nets and l^each seines is prohibited within 500 yards outside of the mouth at mean low 

 tide of all streams less than 500 feet in width at their mouth. No exceptions will be 

 made in favor of any fixed fishing appliances heretofore operated within the prohibited 

 areas. 



4. That the driving of salmon downstream and the causing of salmon to move out- 

 side the protected area at the mouth of any stream are expressly prohibited, 



5. That this order does not supersede but supplements sections 3 and 4 of the order 

 promulgated by the Secretary of Commerce on November 18, 1912, which, respec- 

 tively, prohil)it all commercial fishing for salmon or other fishing in the prosecution 

 of which salmon are taken or injured "in Anan or Humpback Creek, its lagoon, lakes, 

 and tributary waters, together with the region within 500 yards of the mouth of said 

 creek," and "in Naha stream, its lagoon, lakes, and tri]:)utary waters, above a line 

 connecting the points known respectively as Loring Point and House Point." Like- 

 wise this order does not supersede but supplements the order promulgated by the 

 Secretary of Commerce on October 25, 1915, whifh similarly prohibits fishing (a) "in 

 all waters tributary to Barnes Lake, Prince of Wales Island," (6) "in Hetta Creek, 

 its tributary waters, and the region ■within 500 yards of the mouth of said creek," and 

 (c) "in Soclceye Creek, its tril)utary Bora de Quadra hatchery waters, and the region 

 within 500 yards of the mouth of said creek." 



This order becomes effective January 1, 1919. 



