i 2 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1916. 
the waters of Nushagak Bay. The Bureaw’s steamer Osprey cruised 
4,180 miles in southeast Alaska in the calendar year 1916. Near 
the conclusion of active fishing operations, boiler trouble devel- 
oped, and in October the vessel was towed to Seattle for repairs 
or other disposition. The vessel was at Seattle at the end of the year. 
The total cost of patrol work for the year, including salaries of regular 
employees while engaged in this service, was approximately $5,000. 
VIOLATIONS OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 
The violations of the fishery laws coming to the attention of the 
Bureau’s agents in 1916 included fishing in the weekly close season, 
fishing in prohibited areas, and with apparatus set too close to other 
fishing gear. The wanton waste of fish was also charged in two 
instances not yet brought to trial. 
Two indictments returned by the grand jury at Seward on October 
15, 1914, against the Alaska Packers Association, charging it with 
the wanton waste of salmon in connection with its Kasilof cannery, 
were disposed of at the September, 1916, term of the United States 
district court at Valdez. The jury returned a verdict of guilty in 
the first case, whereupon an appeal was entered by the defendant. 
The second case was dismissed. 
Two indictments against Libby, McNeill & Libby, returned by the 
erand jury at Valdez in 1915, for having wantonly wasted salmon, 
were consolidated, and the case was tried at Valdez in September, 
1916. The defendant was acquitted. 
The Deep Sea Salmon Co. was tried and acquitted at the Septem- 
ber, 1916, term of the United States district court at Valdez on the 
first of the three indictments returned against it by the grand jury 
at Valdez in September, 1915. The two other indictments were 
dismissed. 
An indictment, returned by the grand jury in September, 1915, 
against the Northwestern Fisheries Co. for unlawful fishing at Alaganik 
Slough, Copper River Delta, was tried at Valdez in September, 1916. 
The company entered a plea of guilty, and a fine of $100 was imposed. 
Three indictments were returned by the grand jury at Valdez 
against Halmar Folvik and Ingwald Martinson for fishing on Sun- 
day, June 25, 1916, with two anchored gill nets in the waters of Gum- 
boot Creek, Eshamy Bay, and for fishing on two occasions within 
100 yards of the mouth of that creek, it being a red-salmon stream 
less than 500 feet in width. Both pleaded guilty and were fined $5 
each. 
Two indictments were returned by the grand jury at Valdez against 
Hans Steinfeldt for having set two anchored gill nets in Mountain 
Slough on Sunday, May 28, 1916. The defendant was brought to 
trial on October 23, entered a plea of guilty, and was fined $10. 
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