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Trial was before the United States Commissioner at Koggiung, who 

 imposed fines of $150 each, ordered the illegal gear destroyed, and 

 denied the violators the right to fish during the remainder of the 

 season. 



Four fishermen on two gill-net boats belonging to the Alaska Packers 

 Association were fined $50 each for fishing in a weeldy closed period. 

 Cases against four others operating two boats of the Red Salmon 

 Canning Co. in a similar offense will be tried in 1938, as the men had 

 left for the States before the United States Commissioner could handle 

 the matter at the close of the 1937 season. Ten gill-net boats of the 

 Nakat Packing Corporation were seized for fishing in closed periods. 

 Upon trial before the United States Commissioner the 20 fishermen 

 involved were found guilty and fined $35 each, wliich fines were 

 suspended. Two fishermen operating the Alaska Packers Associa- 

 tion's boat No. JfSJ were arrested for laying out drift nets less than 

 100 yards from the gear operated by another of the company's boats 

 about one-half mile below Koggiung Channel light. The case was 

 heard before the Commissioner and discharged. 



A case against the operators of the Alaska Packers Association's 

 boat No. 35 for fishing with a set net in a closed area on the north side 

 of Kvichak Bay was tried and dismissed by the local Commissioner. 

 Aiiother case of this nature against two fishermen operating boat 63 J 

 of the Alaska Packers Association will be tried next season, as the 

 men had left for their homes on Iliamna Lake before the case could be 

 brought before the Commissioner. Two cannery shoresmen, found 

 placing a net in the mouth of Prosper Creek, Kvichak Bay, were 

 charged with fishing without a Territorial license, in a closed period. 

 Upon trial by the Commissioner the case was dismissed. 



ROBBERY OF FISH TRAPS 



Four Ketchikan men charged with the robbery of salmon from traps 

 of the Pacific American Fisheries, Inc., and the Astoria & Puget Sound 

 Canning Co., in the Icy Strait region during the 1937 season were 

 tried in the Federal District Court at Juneau and found guilty. Two 

 of the men were sentenced to 5 years each, and the others to 3 years 

 each, in the Federal penitentiary. 



TERRITORIAL. FISHERY LEGISLATION 



At its biennial session in 1937 the Alaska Legislature aniended the 

 act of 1935 concerning the establishment of an Alaska planning council 

 for making investigations in regard to the resources of the Territory 

 and recommendations for the conservation, utilization, and develop- 

 ment of such resources. The modified act outlines additional duties 

 of the council members and appropriates the sum of $15,000 for the 

 work. 



Another act provides for the establishment of a fisheries experi- 

 mental laboratory in the Territory to aid in developing the unutilized 

 fisheries resources, and particularly to encourage the processing and 

 marketing of such fisheries during the fall, winter, and spring, thus 

 overcoming the handicap of short seasonal employment now suffered 

 in fishing centers. Tliis act also provides for the establishment of a 

 fisheries experimental commission, consisting of the Governor of 

 Alaska, the Alaska agent of the Bureau of Fisheries, and a third 



