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(d) Shumagin district. — lucludes the Shumagia Islands and the mainland 

 shores and islands of the I'acitic side of the reservation from the one hundred 

 and sixty-first to the one hundred and fifty-ninth meridian of west longitude. 



(c) Chiffnik district. — Extends from the one hundred and fifty-ninth merid- 

 ian of west longtitude along the Pacific shores of the reservation to its east- 

 ern margin. 



(H Aleutian Islands district. — Waters over which the United States has 

 jurisdiction from Unimak Pass westward throughout the Aleutian Islands 

 Reservation. 



2. No corporation, company, or person operating for his own account shall 

 engage in fishing or in the preparation of fishei*y products of any description, 

 including salmon, clams, crabs, herring, halibut, and cod. except for personal 

 or family use and not for sale or barter, within the above specified districts 

 without first securing a permit from the Secretary of Commerce. Applica- 

 tions for permits covering minor fishery operations by local residents shall 

 lie made before the beginning of the fishing season to representatives of the 

 Department of Commerce in Alaska .authorized to issue such permits. Appli- 

 cations for all other permits shall be made on or before October 1 of the pre- 

 ceding year to the Secretary of Commerce, Washington, D. C, and shall give 

 full information on the following points : 



(a) Name and permanent address of person or corporation desiring permit. 

 (&) Character of business proposed, whether fishing, or canning, salting, or 

 otherwise curing fish. 



(c) Location and capacity of plant. If a cannery, state number of lines 

 of machinery and whether for pound or half-pound cans. 



(d) Number and kind of each class of fishing gear desired, and location 

 where same is to be operated. 



(e) The quantity which it is desired to pack. In regard to canned salmon 

 the amount shall be stated upon the basis of 48 one-pound cans per case. 



if) If application is for continuance of. operations previously conducted, 

 the pack of salmon by species, and of other fishery products, and the amount 

 of each class of gear operated in the next preceding season must be shown. 



(g) Affidavit as to correctness of facts set forth in the application must 

 be made by competent authority. 



3. Permits will specify the amount of pack allowed, if it be limited, and the 

 character, extent, and locality of fishing operations. 



4. Transportation of fresh salmon for canning, salting, or otherwise pre- 

 serving will not be permitted between any two districts within the reserva- 

 tion or between any district within the reservation and any outside district. 



5. The pack of each salmon cannery shall be made exclusively from the 

 proceeds of the fishing gear specifically allotted to it, except as provided in 

 section 7. Transfer of salmon from one plant to another will not be permitted. 



6. Increase in the capacity of any cannery by installing additional e(iuipment 

 is pi'ohibited. 



7. Natives and other local inhabitants who have secured individual permits 

 may sell salmon or other fishery products to operators of plants situated in the 

 same district, but .such fish or fishery products shall, unless otherwise specified, 

 lie included in the pack limit which has been allotted to the plant purchasing 

 them. 



8. Fox farmers may take and prepare salmon or other fishery products for 

 fox feed in all legal ways, Imt permits must be secured from the Secretary of 

 Commerce or from some representative of the department in Alaska authorized 

 to issue permits. Salmon lawfully taken may be used for codfish bait. 



9. The minimum size of razor clams taken for canning is fixed at 4V^ 

 inches in total length of shell. Not more than 5 per cent of the clams used in 

 any cannery may measure less than this minimum. 



10. These regulations shall be subject to such annual revision by the Sec- 

 retary of Commerce as may appear advisable in view of the investigation and 

 the experience of the preceding season. They' shall be in full force and effect 

 immediately from and after date of issue. 



SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA FISHERIES RESERVATION 



Fishino; operations in the Soutlnvestern Alaska Fisheries Reser- 

 vation were divided naturally into three districts, Bristol Bay, 

 Cook Inlet, and Kodiak-Afognak ^Yaters, as established by the reg- 



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