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and care for the natural spavviiin^ grounds of salmon, and to encjage 

 in technical invesiigations respecting tlie fisheries of Alaska. Accord- 

 ing to the report of the commission for 1921, the hatchery at Juneau 

 was operated, and a new eyeing station was opened at Eyak Lake 

 near Cordova. In 1921 the commission expended on propagation, 

 including permanent improvements and equipment, a total of 

 $23,157.59, of which $12,358.80 was used in building and operating 

 a station on Eyak Lake in Central Alaska for the partial incubation 

 of red-salmon eggs. The cost of operations at the Juneau hatchery 

 and its subsidiary stations was $10,798.79. 



The clearing of salmon streams by the removal of log jams and 

 natural obstructions received the attention of the commission. In 

 the Seward district work was done on Salmon Eiver, Bear Creek, 

 and Grouse Creek. Ptarmigan and Quartz Creeks, tributaries of 

 Kenai Lake, were cleared of several barriers formed by the accumu- 

 lation of driftwood, thus considerably increasing the area accessible 

 to salmon for spawning beds. Similar work was carried on in 

 southeast Alaska south of Wrangell. 



The commission allotted $2,000 for use in Bristol Bay in the 

 destruction of gulls and terns and predacious trout. It expended 

 $2,133.25 in killing hair seals on the Copper River mud flats and 

 reports that 1,325 such seals were slain. 



In summing up the season's work of this character the commission 

 reports the destruction of predacious fish as follows: Bristol Bay 

 district, 34,758; Prince William Sound district, 23,000; and South- 

 east Alaska district, 12,500; making a total of 70,258. The total 

 expenditure for this work, including the allotments for Bristol Bay 

 and Copper River, was $10,089.90. 



TERRITORIAL LICENSE LAW. 



At the biennial session of the Legislature of Alaska in 1921 chapter 

 33 of the session laws of 1919, establishing a system of hcense taxa- 

 tion, was repealed and a new law enacted which became effective 

 from the date of its approval, May 5, 1921. Several changes were 

 made in the rate of taxation of fishery products and of fishing 

 apparatus. The act embraces new legislation, imposing taxes on 



f>roducts and apparatus heretofore untaxed and providing a license 

 ee for all nonresident fishermen operating in Alaska. As it affects 

 the fishery industry, the new law imposes license taxes as follows: 



Canneries. — Clam, 2 cents per case; herring, 2 cents per case; salmon, 7 cents per 

 case on kings and reds or sockeyes, 3^ cents per case on medium reds, and 3 

 cents per case on all others. In addition salmon canneries shall pay 1 per cent of 

 their net annual income. 



Salteries. — Mild-cured red king salmon, 10 cents per 100 pounds; mild-cured white 

 king salmon, 5 cents per 100 pounds; salted codfish, 10 cents per 100 pounds; and 

 all other salted and mild-cured fish, 2^ cents per 100 pounds. 



Apparatus.— Fish traps, fixed or floating, $200 per annum, so-called dummy traps 

 included; giU nets and stake nets, $2 per 100 fathoms, or fraction thereof; seines, 

 $10 for the first 150 fathoms, and $5 additional for each 25 additional fathoms or 

 fraction thereof. 



Fishermen. — Nonresidents of the Territory, $5 per annum. The term 'fisherman" 

 shall include all persons employed on a boat engaged in fishing. 



Fish buyers. — Dealers in fresh fish, one-tenth of 1 cent per pound on fish purchased, 

 except for sale at retail, whether or not the fish buyer operates a cold-storage plant. 



