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2. Coininercial fishing for salmon, except by (rolling, is prohibited during tim 

 period from 6 o'clock jjostmeridian June 10 to (i o'clock postmeridian June M) 

 in each year and for the remainder of each year after 6 o'clock postmeridian 

 September 30. 



3. From April 1 to September 30, both dates inclusive, the 3G-hour closed 

 period for salmon fishing prescribed by section 5 of the act of June (5, 1924, is 

 hereby extended to include the period from G o'clock antemeridian of Saturday 

 of each week to 6 o'clock antemeridian of the Monday following, making a 

 weekly closed period of 4S hours. 



4. Commercial fishing for salmon by trolling, except from boats propeller' 

 wholly by oars or sails, is prohibited prior to March 1 in each calendar year. 



5. No trolling boat shall operate more than four trolling lines. 



6. In commercial trolling operations no king salmon shall be caught which 

 when dressed will weigh less than 6 pounds. In the event any such undersized 

 salmon are thus taken, they must be carefully removed from the hook without 

 jerking or other action causing injury and returned to the water alive. 



North Prince of Wales Island district. — All territorial waters within a line ex- 

 tending from a point near the Hazy Islands at 55 degrees 54 minutes north 

 latitude, 134 degrees 34 minutes west longitude, to the southern end of Cape 

 Decision, thence following the waterslied on Kuiu Island to a point on the east 

 side of Kuiu Island at 56 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, 133 degrees 44 

 minutes 15 seconds west longitude, thence east across Keku Strait, thence across 

 Kupreanof Island, passing nortli of Duncan Canal, to a point on the east coast 

 of Kupreanof Island at 56 degrees 54 minutes north latitude, tlience across 

 Frederick Sound to Horn Cliffs on the mainland, thence to Frederick Point 

 <on Mitkof Island, thence to Point Howe, thence to South Craig Point on Zarembo 

 Island, thence to Drag Island in Chichagof Pass, thence to Chichagof Peak on 

 Wrangell Island, thence to Babbler Point on tlie mainland, thence to Mount 

 Cote, thence following the international boundary to Mount Lewis Cass, thence 

 southerly and westerly along the watershed to the soutliern extremity of Caamano 

 Point, thence southerly to the international boundary at 131 degrees 44 minutes 

 west longitude, thence westerly to the southern extremity of Cape Chacon, 

 thence in a northwesterly direction along the watershed of Prince of Wales 

 Island to a point at 55 degrees 35 minutes 30 seconds north latitude, 133 degrees 

 14 minutes west longitude, thence south to a point at 55 degrees 25 minutes 30 

 seconds north latitude, 133 degrees 14 minutes west longitude, thence west to 

 55 degrees 25 minutes 30 seconds north latitude, 134 degrees west longitude, 

 thence to the point of beginning at 55 degrees 54 minutes north latitude, 134 

 degrees 34 minutes west longitude. 



1. The total aggregate length of gill nets on any salmon fishing boat, or in use 

 by such boat, shall not exceed 250 fathoms hung measure. 



2. Stake and anchored giU nets shall be operated in substantially a straight 

 line. 



3. The distance by most direct water measurement from any part of one trap 

 to any part of another trap shall not Ise less than 1 statute mile. 



4. No floating trap shall exceed 900 feet in length when any part of such trap 

 is in a greater depth of water than 100 feet at mean high tide. The length of 

 any such trap shall be as measured along the lead from shore at mean high tide 

 to the outer face of the pot. 



5. 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. 

 The carrjang of any additional seine or net of any kind on a boat towed by any 

 salmon fishing boat is prohibited. No purse seine shall be less than 175 meshes 

 nor more than 250 meshes in depth nor less than 150 fathoms nor more than 200 

 fathoms in length, measured on the cork line. For the purpose of determining 

 depths of seines measurements will be upon the basis of 3}4 inches stretched 

 measure between knots. No extension to anj- seine in the way of leads will be 

 permitted. 



6. Commercial fishing for salmon, other than trolling, is prohibited prior to 

 6 o'clock antemeridian July 10 in each calendar year, from 6 o'clock postmeridian 

 August 20 to 6 o'clock antemeridian October 1 in each year, and for the remainder 

 of each calendar year after 6 o'clock postmeridian October 15. 



7. Commercial fishing for salmon by trolling is prohibited from 6 o'clock 

 antemeridian August 25 to 6 o'clock postmeridian September 20 in each year. 



8. Commercial fishing for salmon by means of any trap is prohibited except 

 in the period from 6 o'clock antemeridian July 10 to 6 o'clock postmeridian 

 August 20 in each year. 



