76 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



fishing prescribed by section 5 of the act of June 6, 1924, is hereby extended to 

 include the period from 6 o'clock p. m. of Friday of each week until 6 o'clock 

 a. m. of the Monday following, making a weekly closed period of 60 hours: Pro- 

 vided, That this extension shall not be effective after August 25 in each year. 



3. Commercial fishing for salmon within 1,700 yards of the mouths of Bear 

 Creek and Resurrection River is prohibited. 



Clam fishery. — It is prohibited to take for commercial purposes any razor clam 

 measuring less than 43^ inches in total length of shell. Possession of any razor 

 clam of less than this length will be regarded as prima facie evidence of unlawful 

 taking. 



IX. PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND AREA 



The Prince William Sound area is hereby defined to include all territorial 

 coastal and tributary waters of the Gulf of Alaska between Cape Fairfield on the 

 west and Point Whitshed on the east. 



Salmon fishery . — 1. The total aggregate length of gill nets on any salmon fish- 

 ing boat, or in use by such boat, shall not exceed 200 fathoms hung measure. 



2. No salmon fishing boat shall carry or operate more than one seine of any 

 description, and no additional net of any kind shall be carried on such boat. 

 No purse seine shall be less than 100 meshes nor more than 150 meshes in depth, 

 nor less than 75 fathoms nor more than 125 fathoms in length measured on the 

 cork line. For the purpose of determining depths of seines, measurements will 

 be upon the basis of 33^ inches stretched measure between knots. No extension 

 to any seine in the way of leads will be permitted. 



3. All set or anchored gill nets shall not exceed 200 yards each in length and 

 shall be placed in substantially a straight line: Provided, That not to exceed 20 

 yards of each net may be used as a hook. Only one such hook is permitted on a 

 net. There shall be a distance interval of at least 200 yards both endwise and 

 laterally at all times between all set or anchored gill nets operated. 



4. The use of traps for the capture of salmon is prohibited in all waters along 

 the coast from the outer point on the north shore of Granite Bay to the light 

 on the south shore of the entrance to Port Nellie Juan. 



5. The 36-hour closed period for salmon fishing prescribed by section 5 of the 

 act of June 6, 1924, is hereby extended to include the period from 6 o'clock a. m. 

 of Saturday of each week until 6 o'clock a. m. of the Monday following, making 

 a weekly closed period of 48 hours: Provided, That this extension shall not be 

 effective after August 25 in each year. 



6. Commercial fishing for salmon is prohibited from 6 o'clock p. m. August 

 9 to 6 o'clock p. m. August 25 in each year. 



7. All traps operated in the Prince William Sound area shall be at least Vy% 

 statute miles apart laterally. 



8. All commercial fishing for salmon is prohibited, as follows: 



(a) Constantine Harbor: All waters above a line at right angles across the 

 harbor at prominent shore-line points about \]/i statute miles from the mouth 

 of the large salmon stream flowing into the northeast arm of the harbor. 



(6) Port Etches: All waters within 1 statute mile of the mouth of the salmon 

 stream flowing into the head of Port Etches. 



(c) Boswell Bay, indenting Hinchinbrook Island: All waters in the bay west 

 of 146° 8' west longitude. 



(d) Twin Lake Creek: All waters within 1,000 yards of the mouth of Twin 

 Lake Creek flowing into the southeast arm of Simpson Bay. 



(e) Port Fidalgo: All waters east of 146° 20' west longitude. 



(/) Robe River, Lowe River, and other unnamed streams flowing into Port 

 Valdez in the immediate vicinity of Valdez: All waters within 1,000 yards of the 

 mouths. 



(g) Billy's Hole, tributary to Long Bay, between Valdez Arm and Unakwik 

 Inlet: All waters within a line from Point Scott to Point Hook and passing just 

 westward of Observation Island. 



(h) Unakwik Inlet, indenting mainland on north shore of Prince William 

 Sound: All waters within the eastern half of the inlet north of an east and west 

 line passing through the northern side of the entrance to Jonah Bay. 



(i) Coghill River, tributary to College Fiord: All waters within 2,000 yards 

 outside of the mouth of the river. 



(j) Long Bay, tributary to Culross Passage: All waters within the bay. 



(k) Gumboot Creek, on northwest shore of Eshamy Bay: All waters within 

 1,000 yards of the mouth of the creek. 



