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tered a plea of guilty and was fined SoOO, the impounded herring were 

 released, and the seine was removed. A seine skiff and seine were 

 seized in the creek at the head of Fools Inlet, evidence indicating 

 that they had been engaged in illegal fishing. Neither the operator 

 nor the owner was apprehended, and the gear with writ of seizure 

 was turned over to the United ^States marshal at Wrangell. 



Cases against the Sebastian Stuart Fish Co., of Tyee; Sam Morris 

 and the New England Fish Co., of Juneau; and E. B. Dudden, 

 superintendent of the Douglas Island Packing Co., in connection 

 with the mild curing and canning of iced salmon more than 48 hours 

 dead, which were still pending at the close of 1928, w^ere dropped, 

 inasmuch as the amendment to the fisheries law under date of Feb- 

 ruary 28, 1929, recognizes the processes of preserving salmon by icing 

 and freezing. 



In the Seward-Katalla district a case was brought before the district 

 court against the Copper River Packing Co. and a trap watchman 

 for failure to comply with regulations in respect to the closing of 

 the tunnel from heart to pot of a trap on the east shore of Chenega 

 Island during a weekly closed period. The defendants pleaded 

 guilty and were fined $325 and $75, upon payment of which the trap 

 was released. Three men were arrested on September 5 for fishing 

 near the head of the east arm of Simpson Bay during the closed 

 season. On trial in the commissioner's court the defendants pleaded 

 guilty and were fined $50 each and costs, or imprisonment at not to 

 exceed one day for each $2 of said fine. All spent two days in jail, 

 and then the fines were paid. The salmon which they had taken 

 illegally were seized and sold for $35.75. A case was brought before 

 the commissioner's court charging a fisherman on the Copper River 

 Flats with failure to tie up a stake net sufficiently to prevent its 

 fishing during the closed season. The defendant pleaded guilty and 

 paid a fine of $50 and costs. Several gill nets set for fishing during 

 closed periods on Copper River Flats and in Orca Bay were seized 

 and are being held for disposal by the Department of Justice, inas- 

 much as the owners were not apprehended. Salmon taken in these 

 nets were sold for $27.80. The proceeds of all sales of salmon were 

 turned over to the district attorney. 



In the Kodiak district two men were arrested for illegal fishing in 

 Uganik Bay during a weekly closed period and were taken before the 

 United States commissioner at Kodiak, where they pleaded guilty 

 and were fined $250 each. The proceeds of the sale of a small number 

 of seized salmon were turned over to the commissioner. 



In the Kvichak-Naknek district of Bristol Bay 19 cases were tried 

 before the local commissioner — 12 of which involved fishing in closed 

 areas, 3 fishing in closed periods, 3 the use of gill nets in excess of 150 

 fathoms, and 1 the use of a gill net of 5-inch mesh. Three cases 

 (2 in connection with fishing in closed areas and 1 fishing in a closed 

 period) were dismissed, and in the others fines ranging from $25 to 

 $150 and totaling $1,640 were imposed on 32 defendants. 



TERRITORIAL FISHERY LEGISLATION 



The Legislature of Alaska at its biennial session in 1929 passed six 

 bills affecting the fisheries of Alaska. 



Three of these authorized and made appropriation for the refund of 

 specified sums of money paid as Hcenses for fish traps, either because 



