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Three cases, also, were brought before the Commissioner at Sel- 

 dovia. In one of these, two fishermen charged with operating a 

 beach seine in Kamishak Bay before tiie fishing season opened were 

 given a 3-month suspended sentence. Anotlier case had to do with 

 the operation of a beach seine by two fishermen inside the mariners at 

 the mouth of McNeill Creek, The men were fined $20 each and given 

 a 3-month suspended sentence. The third case involved five men 

 found fishing for the Puget & Alaska Canning Co. with two beach 

 seines inside the markers at the mouths of salmon streams at the 

 head of the west arm of Port Dick. Fines of $25 each were imposed 

 on the fishermen and $100 on the company, upon payment of which, 

 the boats and apparatus were released. The proceeds from the sale 

 of salmon seized froin the last-mentioned operators, amounting to 

 $43.07, were turned over to the Department of Justice. 



In the Chignik area two set gill nets belonging to Harry W. Crosby 

 were observed fishing shortly after the beginning of a weekly closed 

 period in July. No seizure of gear was made as the ebbing tide pre- 

 vented the Bureau's patrol vessel from reaching shore. The case, 

 however, has been dropped because of insufficient evidence. 



TERRITORIAL FISHERY LEGISLATION 



The Alaska Legislature, at its biennial session in 1935, passed an 

 act providing for the annual licensing of all persons engaged in taking 

 clams for commercial use, fixing the fee for such licenses at $1 for each 

 resident and $15 for each nonresident clam digger, said fees to be paid 

 by the cannery, food market, or other commercial enterprise on the 

 clam diggers it hires or from whom it buys, and prescribing penalty of 

 not more tlian 6 months in jail, $500 fine, or both, for hiring, or buying 

 from, a clam digger without a license. 



Another act, designed to promote more intelligent and orderly 

 marketing of agricultural and aquatic products, provides for the or- 

 ganization and operation of cooperative associations to be termed 

 "Cooperative marketing associations" and defines their powers. 



A further act, pertaining to the fishery as well as other natural 

 resources, creates an Alaskan planning council to make inquiries, 

 investigations, and surveys concerning the resources of all sections 

 of the Territory, to assemble and analyze the data, to formulate 

 plans, and to make recommendations as to the best methods of 

 conservation, utilization, and development of resources, and to 

 cooperate with public agencies in such planning, conservation, 

 utilization, and development of resources. 



Three acts pertained to the payment of bounty on hair seals, 

 which destroy salmon and other fishes in certain localities. One of 

 these acts extended the region in which the bounty of $2 on hair seals 

 is applicable; one provided funds in the sum of $7,500 for payment of 

 deficiencies in the appropriation for the biennium ending March 31, 

 1935, for payment of such bounty; and the third appropriated $30,000 

 for the paym.ent of the bounty in the succeeding biennium. The 

 last-named act also appropriated $15,000 for clearing salmon streams 

 and destroying predatory trout. 



