13 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1918. 
1, Commercial fishing is prohibited in waters of the Copper River delta from 6 a. m. 
on January 1 to 6 a. m. on June 10 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 15 of each year. 
2. Commercial fishing in the waters of the delta shall be limited to set nets and drift 
gill nets. No such net shall exceed 800 feet in length. The lateral distance interval 
between all such nets in the waters of the delta herein referred to shall be not less 
than 600 feet. 
os _All fishing is prohibited from the head of the delta to the foot of Miles Lake at 
all times. 
4. All fishing in Miles Lake shall be limited to set nets. No such net shall exceed 
800 feet in length, and only one such net shall be extended out from shore from one 
location. No offshore nets will be permitted in the lake. Throughout the fishin 
season the shore of the lake shall be considered as it was on June 15. The latera 
distance interval between all nets in Miles Lake shall be not less than 600 feet. No 
fishing will be permitted along the west and north shores of Miles Lake from the north 
end of Mile 49 bridge to the north end of Miles Glacier, nor along the islands and sand 
bars between the bridge and the head of the lake. 
5. 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. No fishing will be 
ermitted at any point on the east side of the canyon or river above the head of the 
ake. 
6. 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 spawning grounds of any salmon. 
7. No net shall be placed in any other than substantially a straight line. 
8. For the purposes herein considered, the delta of the Copper River shall be 
regarded as including all waters south of an east and west line passing through Mile 
270n the Copper River & Northwestern Railway, as at present established, and inside 
of a line 500 yards off the mouth of each slough and outlet of the Copper River, begin- 
ning with Alaganik Slough on the west and ending with Gus Wilson Slough on the 
east, including Pete Dahl, Walhalla, Gus Stevenson, Little King Salmon, Castle, 
Storey, Big King Salmon (or Copper River proper), Duck, Russian, and all unnamed 
sloughs between. For the purposes of this order, the mouth of each slough will be 
regarded as at the edge of the grass banks at the line of mean high tide. 
9. The lower end of Miles Lake shall be considered as at the bridge of the Copper 
River & Northwestern Railway at Mile 49. The head of Miles Lake shall be consid- 
ered as at the point where theriver enters the lake, this point to be as indicated by no- 
tices posted by duly authorized representatives of the Bureau of Fisheries. 
10. Abercrombie Canyon shall be considered as extending from the head of Miles 
Lake to Tunnel Point on the Copper River & Northwestern Railway. 
11. For the purposes of this order the following definitions are adopted: ‘‘Stake 
net,’’ a gill net attached or affixed to piles or stakes. ‘‘Set net,’’ an anchored gill 
nes one end of which may, if desirable, be ‘fastened to a stake or other object on 
shore. 
This order becomes effective January 1, 1919, and supersedes the order of Decem- 
ber 29, 1917. 
Under date of September 18, 1918, announcement was made of a 
hearing to be held in respect to the waters of southeastern Alaska. 
The announcement was as follows: 
It having been recommended that the Secretary of Commerce limit or prohibit 
commercial fishing for salmon and other commercial fishing in the prosecution of 
which salmon are taken or injured, in all streams less than 500 feet in width in south- 
eastern Alaska, east of the longitude of Cape Spencer, and in all lakes and other 
waters tributary to such streams and within 500 yards of the mouths of such streams, 
notice is hereby given under the provisions of section 6 of the act of Congress approved 
June 26, 1906, entitled ‘‘An Act for the protection and regulation of the fisheries of 
Alaska,’’ that a hearing to determine the advisability of limiting or prohibiting fishing 
operations in the above-described waters will be held at the office of the Bureau of 
Fisheries, 1217 L. C. Smith Building, Seattle, Wash., on November 25, 1918, at 10 
o’clock a. m., at which time and place all persons interested will be heard. 
Following the hearing on November 25, 1918, the Department, 
under date of December 21, 1918, promulgated the following order: 
