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Work of erecting markers near the mouths of salmon streams 

 Avas carried on, those destroyed being replaced, additional streams 

 marked, and old markers moved to conform to the closing order 

 of December 30, 1921, which made the 50U-yard prohibition appli- 

 cable to all streams of southeast Alaska as well as of other districts. 



A number of complaints have been made of the stealing of salmon 

 from traps in southeast Alaska. Depredations of this character are 

 regarded as outside the jurisdiction of the bureau, but assistance 

 has been rendered to the officials of the Department of Justice, and 

 transportation to its agents has been afforded on the bureau's ves- 

 sels whenever possible in connection with efforts to suppress the prac- 

 tice. In the season of 1922 four vessels of the Navy Department 

 were stationed in the southeast district to assist the Department 

 of Justice, and Coast Guard cutters also took part in the work. 



PRIVATE SALMON HATCHERIES. 



The private salmon hatcheries in Alaska have been inspected as 

 required by law. In 1922 two such hatcheries were operated. One 

 of these, on Naha Stream, liberated 12,885,000 red-salmon fry in 

 the fiscal year 1922, and the other, located on Hugh Smith Lake, 

 liberated 9,647,000 red-sahnon fry in the same period. The total 

 rebate of taxes on canned salmon, at the rate of 40 cents per 1,000 

 fry released by these hatcheries, amounted to $9,012.80. 



NEW SALMON-nSPIERY REGULATIONS. 



In accordance with announcements duly issued, hearings were 

 held at Juneau on October 19 and at Seattle on November 15 and 

 17 for the consideration of necessary changes in the regulations re- 

 garding salmon fishing in Alaska. The waters affected were those of 

 southeast Alaska and of the region from Cape Newenham north and 

 eastward to the Canadian boundary. Statements were also permitted 

 to be made by interested parties in regard to the Copper River, Kus- 

 kokwim River, and Yukon River, in which commercial fishing is 

 prohibited. As a result of these hearings the following order was 

 issued on December 30, 1921 : 



Hearings having been given, after due notice in accordance witli law. for tlie 

 purpose of determining the advisability of limiting or prohibiting fishing in 

 certain waters in Alaska, and to amend or modify certain existing regulations, 

 and all persons having had full opportunity to be lieard, it is hereby ordered, 

 by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 6 of "An act for the pro- 

 tection and regulation oi' the fisheries of Alaska." approved ,Iune 26, 1906, 

 that until furtlaer notice all fishing for salmon, or other fishing in the prose- 

 cution of whicli salmon are taken or injured, in all hereinafter described 

 waters of Alaska be and is hereby made subject to the following limitations 

 and prohibitions in addition to the general restrictions already applicable 

 by virtue of existing laws and regulations : 



1. Salmon fishing is prohibited in all streams, within 500 yards of their 

 niouth.s, and in their tributaries and lakes, except as hex-einafter permitted. 



2. Fishing is permitted at Karluk beyond the zone 100 yards outside the 

 mouth of Karluk River where it breaks through Karluk Spit into Shelikof 

 Strait. 



3. Fishing is permitted in Ugashik River below a line extending at right 

 angles across the Ugashik 500 yards below the mouth of King Salmon River. 



