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Pleasant Bay, Seymour Canal. The defendants pleaded guilty in 

 Commissioner's court and fines of $200 for each boat were imposed. 

 The operator of the Ovin was fined $515 for a similar offense and for 

 attempted bribery of the stream guard who made the arrest. 



A case against operators of the seine boat Nev:> England, charged 

 with fishing commercially in a closed area in Saginaw Bay, was 

 tried in the Commissioner's court at Juneau and dismissed because of 

 insufficient evidence. 



Two gill-net fishermen, operating the boat 31B172 in the Wrangell 

 district, were found guilty on two counts — fishing in a closed area in 

 Kah Sheets Bay and blockading a stream with staked gill nets. Fines 

 of $100 on each count were assessed against each operator, and costs 

 amounted to $18.60, making a total of $418.60 for fines and costs. 

 Fish aboard the boat were seized and sold for $71.59. 



The halibut boat Bremerton was found fishing in closed waters off 

 Noyes Island on Sunday July 25. The case was tried before the 

 United States Commissioner at Craig, and a fine of $750 was assessed 

 and paid. The halibut boat Reliance I, of Ketchikan, was fined $800 

 in Commissioner's court at Sitka for violation of the halibut fishing 

 regulations. The vessel had cleared for fishing in Area 3 and was 

 found fishing in Area 2 by the Coast Guard cutter Haida. ^ 



Charges were brought against the Lindenberger Packing Co. of 

 Craig for canning salmon that had been out of the water more than 

 48 hours. The case was still pending at the end of the year. Another 

 case still pending is that against Frank Richardson, charged with 

 fishing with a small seine in closed waters in the Wrangell district. 



In the Seward-Katalla district 12 gill-net boats were apprehended 

 for illegal fishing; upon trial in the Commissioner's court convictions 

 were obtained in all cases, and fines were assessed and paid. Opera- 

 tors of four of the boats in question (T-385, 31B778, 31C269, and 

 Pioneer Canneries Co. boat No. 4-2) were found guilty on each of three 

 counts — fishing in a closed period, in closed waters of Bering River 

 or Bering Lake, and with stake nets, a prohibited type of apparatus 

 in the locality; fines of $75 each were assessed against the fishermen, 

 or a total of $450. Sales of salmon seized from three of the boats 

 brought $213.50 for the account of the Government. 



Two fishermen on the Queen (31A802) also charged with a triple 

 violation were convicted on two counts, fisliing in a closed period and 

 and in closed waters of Bering River, about 6 miles above Point Hey, 

 and were fined $50 each. The catch aboard the boat was seized and 

 sold for $60.20. One of the fishermen was later arrested and fined 

 $50 for fishing without a license, in violation of Territorial law. 



The operator of the 31C287 was fined $25 for fishing in a weekly 

 closed period and his catch was seized and sold for $19.60. Another 

 fisherman, on the 31B547, was fined $50 for fishing in a closed period 

 and in closed waters in Bering River; his forfeited catch was sold for 

 $63. Fines of $35 against the operator of the T3951 and $25 each 

 against two operators of the 31B869 were imposed for fishing in a 

 weekly closed period oft' Russian Slough, and fines of $25 each were 

 assessed against the operators of Pioneer Canneries boat No. 17 and 

 a skiff for fishing within 500 yards of the Grass Banks at Russian 

 Slough. The operator of the '30J56 was fined $25 for fishing above 

 markers fixing closed waters west of Cottonwood Point. 



