102 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
3. Sockeye Creek, its tributary Boca de Quadra hatchery waters, 
and the region within 500 yards of the mouth of said creek. 
COMMERCIAL FISHING WITHIN RESERVATIONS. 
Permits have been issued by the Department, on the recommenda- 
tion of the Bureau, to conduct certain fishing operations within the 
limits of the Aleutian Islands Reservation, established by executive 
order of March 3, 1913. In January, 1916, the company known as 
the Pacific-American Fisheries was authorized to construct and 
operate on Unalaska Island a plant for canning or salting salmon or 
other food fishes. This is the first permit of this character granted, 
as former permits have covered only minor fishing. The matter of 
granting a permit for a cannery within the reservation came about 
as the result of a petition signed by 109 natives of Unalaska Island, 
who set forth that the construction of a cannery on Unalaska Island 
would afford them a most advantageous means of employment and 
at the same time the operations of the cannery would not make such 
a heavy demand upon the runs of salmon that there would not be 
enough left for the food requirements of the natives. The permit 
was granted under the condition that all work except that requirin 
skilled mechanics and operators in connection with the taking o 
fish and their subsequent preparation for market should be per- 
formed by the Aleuts or Indians resident upon the said reservation. 
Other conditions were that the weekly close season should be ob- 
served, that fishing would not be conducted with fixed appliances, 
and that no fishing would be carried on within any salmon stream or 
within 100 yards outside of the mouth of any such stream. Failure 
to observe the stipulations of the permit will automatically result in 
its termination. The permit is not transferable and ts revocable at 
any time at the pleasure of the Secretary of Commerce. 
In January, 1916, a private individual of Unalaska was authorized 
to conduct certain specified fishing within the reservation, with a 
stipulation as to the employment of native help. In June, 1916, the 
Union Fish Co., of San Drateiscs! was granted permission to engage 
in cod-fishing operations from Tigalda Island. 
On the Afognak Reservation 79 licenses were issued to natives to 
take salmon for commercial purposes under restrictions imposed 
by the Department. The catch, which was disposed of to a cannery 
located outside the reservation, comprised 134,692 salmon of the 
red, coho, and humpback species and yielded the natives about $4,500. 
By the terms of a presidential proclamation issued April 28, 1916, 
the waters within 3,000 feet of Annette Island and several small 
adjacent islands in southeast Alaska were set apart as a fishing 
reserve for the exclusive benefit of Alaskan natives living thereon, 
to be used by them under the fishery laws and regulations of the 
Territory as administered by the Department of Commerce. 
SALMON CENSUS IN WOOD RIVER. 
The Wood River has been closed to fishing for many years and is 
resorted to for breeding purposes by red salmon escaping the nets in 
Nushagak Bay. The counting of the salmon was first undertaken in 
1908 and has teas continued annually since that time except in 1914. 
