26 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1918. 
Jomnt Permits IN ALEUTIAN ISLANDS RESERVATION. EFFECTIVE AT END OF CAL- 
ENDAR YEAR 1918. 
Date. Grantee. Location and purpose. 
July. 5; 19076 s.. 2 ot Andrew; CPNuiiees t--.-c--= 4-85 To graze cattle, sheep, goats, and other 
domestic animals on Umnak Island. 
Ot 205 191722 tae = Buckley Livestock, Fisheries & | To graze cattle, sheep, and other domestic 
Transportation Co. Ree on the southwest end of Unalaska 
sland. 
Dee..8; 1917. = *==---- Andrew |G: Snith). .2....-- 0:5 yes To graze sheep on Dutch Harbor Island. 
Term of permit limited to one year. 
Mar. 16, 1918... .---- mil tinier «ses se 22s «5 3-e, e T9 pram hogs on Dutch Harbor, Amaknak) 
sland. 
AFOGNAK RESERVATION. 
The usual requirements in respect to commercial fishing in the 
Afognak Reservation were complied with by the issuance of fishing 
licenses to about 45 natives who desired to engage in such activities. 
Their work was placed under the immediate supervision of W. E. 
Baumann, of Afognak, who was temporarily employed as a patrol- 
man. 
The natives lost the usual May and June fishing on account of 
delays in securing licenses and were therefore unable to begin opera- 
tions until July. Though a considerable part of the run of salmon 
had passed into the streams before that date, the natives made a 
fair catch and averaged a higher return for their season’s work than 
ever before. This was due largely, if not wholly, to the fact that the 
Federal Food Administration fixed the price of salmon at a con- 
siderably higher rate than the natives had ever before received. 
The bulk of the catch was sold to the Kadiak Fisheries Co., at Kodiak, 
although Wasilie Necrassoff, a native of Afognak, pickled a few 
barrels of cohos, humpbacks, and reds, and the Northern Fisheries 
(Inc.), secured a few cohos from Litnik Bay. 
No special close seasons were enforced at any of the localities 
fished, except that all commercial fishing was prohibited in Pauls 
Bay and Litnik Bay, at which places the salmon were desired for 
propagation. Just before the run of cohos began in Litnik Bay this 
prohibition was withdrawn to meet the recommendation of the 
superintendent of the fish-cultural station on Afognak Lake that the 
taking of cohos would be beneficial to the hatchery work by reducing 
the number of enemies of the red-salmon fry and fingerlings. Young 
coho salmon grow much more rapidly than red salmon, usually 
attaining a length of 6 to 8 inches in the two years they remain in 
fresh water, during which time, it is said, they feed largely upon the 
red-salmon fry. Considerable credence had been placed in the 
local report that the run of cohos in Litnik Bay attained propor- 
tions sufficient to attract and induce the natives to undertake com- 
mercial fishing for them. The results of fishing carried on during 
September seem to negative these reports, as the catch was less than 
3,000 fish. 
