REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 83 
Bering River, under date of November 30, 1917.—That until further notice 
all fishing for salmon or other fishing in the prosecution of which salmon are 
taken or injured, be and is hereby prohibited in waters of Alaska, as follows: 
Bering River and all tributary waters, including Bering Lake, above a line 
extending at right angles across Bering River from a point approximately 
eight hundred (800) feet northwesterly from the mouth of Gandil River, 
Alaska. 
Copper River, under date of December 29, 1917.—That until further notice 
all fishing for salmon, or other fishing in the prosecution of which salmon 
are taken or injured, in the Copper River and its delta, and all tributary 
waters, Alaska, be, and is hereby, made subject to the following limitations 
and prohibitions in addition to the general restrictions already applicable by 
virtue of existing laws and regulations: 
1. Commercial fishing is prohibited in all waters of the Copper River delta 
from 6 a. m. on January 1 to 6 a. m. on June 1 of each year, and in the waters 
of Miles Lake and Abercrombie Canyon from 6 a. m. on January 1 to 6 a. m. 
on June 5 of each year. 
2. A weekly close season from 6 p. m. Saturday to 6 a. m. of the Monday 
following shall be observed in all of the waters herein referred to, in which 
fishing is permitted. 
3. Commercial fishing in the waters of the delta shall be limited to set nets, 
stake nets, and drift gill nets: Provided, however, That the four existing traps 
east of Cape Whitshed may be continued in operation, but without change of 
location or increase in size. No stake net, set net, or drift gill net shall ex- 
ceed 1.000 feet in length. Only one stake net or set net shall be extended out 
from shore from one location, and no offshore stake nets or set nets will be per- 
mitted; the lateral distance interval between all such nets in the waters of 
the delta shall be not less than 1,800 feet. 
4. All fishing is prohibited from the head of the delta to the foot of Miles 
Lake at all times. 
5. All fishing in Miles Lake shall be limited to stake nets and set nets. No 
such nets shall exceed 600 feet in length, and only one such net shall be ex- 
tended out from shore from one location; no offshore nets will be permitted in 
the lake. The lateral distance interval between all nets in Miles Lake shall 
be not less than 600 feet. 
6. Fishing in Abercrombie Canyon shall be restricted to the use of dip nets 
operated by hand, such nets not to exceed 16 inches in greatest diameter and 
only one dip net shall be operated by a person. On the east side of the canyon 
there shall be distance intervals of at least 300 feet between fishermen operat- 
ing dip nets. No fishing will be permitted in the so-called bear holes near 
the upper end of Abercrombie Canyon. 
7. No fishing will be permitted at any time in the waters of the Copper River 
above Abercrombie Canyon, or in any of the waters tributary thereto, except 
in the case of local residents, who may take limited numbers of salmon for 
domestic use: Provided, That such fishing shall at no time be upon the spawn- 
ing grounds of any salmon. 
8. No set net or stake net shall be operated in any other than substantially 
a straight line. 
9. For the purposes herein considered, the delta of the Copper River will 
be regarded as including all waters south of an east and west line passing 
through Mile 27 on the Copper River & Northwestern Railway, as at present 
established, and inside ef a line from Point Martin to Cape Whitshed drawn 
so as to include the waters of the Martin Islands, the Egg Islands, and all 
tidal flats and islands between. é 
10. The lower end of Miles Lake shall be considered as at the bridge of the 
Copper River & Northwestern Railway at Mile 49. The upper end of Miles 
Lake shall be considered as at a point near Mile 524 on the Copper River & 
Northwestern Railway where the river loses its identity in the lake, this point 
to be as indicated by notices posted by duly authorized representatives of the 
Bureau of Fisheries. 
11. Abercrombie Canyon shall be considered as extending from the upper 
end of Miles Lake to Tunnel Point, near Mile 534 on the Copper River & North- 
western Railway. 
12. For the purposes of this order the following definitions are adopted to 
apply to the words in question where the same are used: “ Stake net,” a gill 
net attached or affixed to piles or stakes; “ set net,” an anchored gill net. 
