12 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1919. 



6. All previous orders of the Secretar}' of Commerce imposing limitations or prohi- 

 bitions upon fishing in the waters covered by this order, except as hereinbefore indi- 

 cated, are hereby superseded. 



7. This order became effective January 1, 1920. 



Limitations and i)rohil:)itions upon fishing are applicable in the 

 waters of the Yukon and Coj^jicr Rivers by virtue of previous orders 

 of the Secretary of Commerce. Limitations have been placed upon 

 fishing by Executive order or proclamation in the following addi- 

 tional waters: Afognak Keservation, Aleutian Islands Resei'vation, 

 Yes Bay and Stream, and the Annette Island Fishery Reserve. 



STREAM IMPROVEMENT. 



In recent years the Bureau has done some work in regard to the 

 removal of obstructions and natural barriers from streams in Alaska 

 to permit breeding salmon to reach previously inaccessible spawning 

 grounds. Not much was done along this line in 1919, as there was 

 a shortage of funds and personnel, and for the further reason that the 

 Alaska Legislature had provided for a Territorial fish commission, one 

 of' the functions of which was the removal of natural obstructions 

 from salmon streams. The Bureau has been glad to relinquish this 

 phase of the work to the Territory. It is hoped that efforts may be 

 ])ushed vigorously, as there is a splendid field which promises big 

 returns in the way of conserving the supply of salmon. Employees 

 of the Bureau have been directed to cooperate with the Territorial 

 fish commission in these operations. 



STREAM WATCHMEN. 



Supplemental to the patrol work of the Bureau as carried on by the 

 regular employees stationed in Alaska, temporary employment was 

 given to a few men in the southeast and central districts as stream 

 watchmen. The general ]^lan was to place these men at certain 

 important streams or localities during the salmon season to prevent 

 encroachments upon areas closed to commercial fishing. As far as 

 means permitted this was done in 1919. The greatest merit of the 

 service lies in the prevention of raids on the schools of salmon as they 

 congregate at the mouths of the streams. It will grow in value in 

 pro]>ortion to the number of streams ^^'hich may be thus guarded. 



Stream watchmen were employed in southeast and central Alaska 

 as follows: In southeast Alaska, A. Burks Summers, Cyrus B. John- 

 son, Ernest F. Goodner, C. C. Combs, Edward Fay, Walter Campen, 

 Lester Campen, George W. Mock, and E. J. Hunsacker; in central 

 Alaska, Kenneth C. Cole on Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet, 

 Newt Cas]:>erson at Miles Lake and Abercrombie Canyon, Kristof 

 Lahz at Eshamy Bay, W. E. Baumann at Afognak, and John J. 

 Folstad at Kariuk. In addition, Joseph A. Bourke, a Territorial 

 oHicer, detailed through courtesy of Governor Riggs, assisted in the 

 work on the Copper River and Prince William Sound. 



The fifteen persons above named, together with the regular em- 

 plovocs of the Bureau, constituted a larger force than had been 

 engaged any season previously in fishery protective work in Alaska. 



