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court at Wrangell against another fisherman, found with wet seine 

 and fish aboard his gill-net boat T-1957 at the mouth of Mill Creek, 

 but it was dismissed because of insufficient evidence. 



Operators of the trolling boats T-597 and Judith were arrested for 

 fishing in a weekly closed period at a point 1% miles south of Point 

 Rosary, Suemez Island. In the United States Commissioner's court 

 at Craig the defendants were fined $200 and $150, respectively, 

 whereupon they appealed to the United States district court. These 

 cases were afterwards dismissed for lack of sufficient evidence. 



A fine of $100 was imposed on the Alaska Pacific Salmon Co. for 

 fishing with a gill net near Point Webster in waters not open to such 

 apparatus. Two fishermen found operating beach seines in a closed 

 season at the mouth of Petersburg Creek pleaded guilty before the 

 United States Commissioner at Petersburg. One defendant was 

 fined $50 and costs of $7.05 and his illegal catch was seized and sold 

 for $30. The other was fined $100 and costs of $7.05 and was given 

 a 30-day suspended sentence. A fine of $50 and a 90-day sus- 

 pended sentence were imposed upon a fisherman who operated a 

 purse seine as a beach seine in closed waters at the mouth of Barrie 

 Creek, and a fine of $100 was assessed against a fisherman for using a 

 beach net at the mouth of a salmon stream in Seclusion Harbor. 

 Five fishermen in the Yakutat district were fined $10 each for setting 

 a beach seine during a weekly closed period. 



In the Seward-Katalla district three cases of illegal fishing for 

 salmon in closed waters were tried before the Commissioner at 

 Cordova. These cases involved four fishermen charged with operating 

 two purse seines in Siwash Bay and tlu-ee fishermen operating a purse 

 seine within 500 yards of the mouth of a salmon stream in Eaglek 

 Bay. Each fisherman was fined $25. A case against a fisherman 

 found operating a purse seine in Galena Bay during a closed season 

 was tried before the Commissioner at Valdez, and a fine of $50 was 

 imposed. A clam digger was fined $10 for taking clams less than 

 4)2 inches in total length of shell, the minimum size specified in the 

 regulations. Another lot of undersized clams was weighed in at the 

 cannery of W. R. Gilbert Co., but no digger claimed them. In both 

 cases the clams were seized and sold and the proceeds were turned 

 over to the Department of Justice. A fisherman charged with 

 violating the law prohibiting aliens from fishing in Alaska waters 

 was fined $100. 



The case against the Copper River Packing Co., involving charges 

 of illegal operation of three salmon traps after the close of the fishing 

 season in 1934, was tried before the United States District Court of 

 the Third Division of Alaska in the summer of 1935 and a fine of 

 $500 was assessed. 



Three cases of illegal fishing with gill nets during a weekly closed 

 period were tried before the United States Commissioner at Anchor- 

 age. The four fishermen charged with the offense pleaded guilty and 

 fines of $25 each were imposed, together with a 3-montli suspended 

 sentence. A complaint was also filed with the Commissioner at 

 Anchorage against a fisherman charged with setting gill nets during a 

 weekly closed period between Moose Point and Point McManus on 

 the east shore of Cook Inlet. This case, which was pending at the 

 end of the year, has been dismissed with a reprimand. 



