ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES IN 1920.^ 



By Wabd T. Bo web, Agent, Alaska Service. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Introduction 6 



Regular employees, Alaska service 7 



Fishery Industries 9 



Waters closed to commercial fishing 9 



Stream marking 12 



Stream watchmen 12 



Fishery patrol 13 



Bureau patrol hoats 13 



Naval and other puhlic vessels 14 



War Department regulations 15 



Alaska fishery intelligence service 17 



Inspection of canneries 17 



Violations of fisheries laws and regulations 18 



Territorial tax law upheld 26 



Robbeo' of fish traps 29 



Territorial fish commission 30 



Territorial license tax 30 



Destruction of predatory fishes in Bristol Bay region 31 



Naknek section 31 



Wood River section 32 



Kvlchak and lliamna section 84 



Summary 3U 



Recommendations 37 



Afogiiak Reservation 37 



Aleutian Islands Reservation 39 



Annette Island Fishery Reserve 39 



Copper River fishery 40 



Yukon River fishery 41 



Hatcheries 42 



Extent of operations 42 



IlatcheiT rebates 43 



Hatchery operations 43 



McDonald Lake 43 



Afognak 43 



Fortmann 44 



Quadra 44 



Juneau 44 



General statistics of the fisheries in 1920 44 



Salmon industry 46 



Salmon catch and forms of gear 47 



Salmon canning 49 



Changes in canneries 49 



New canneries 49 



' Appendix VI to tho Report of tJie U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1921. B. F, 

 Doc. 909. 



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