14 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1916, 
lagoon at Anan Creek on June 28, 1916. The defendant put in the 
plea that his net had drifted in with the tide. He was discharged 
by the court with an admonition. . 
On July 31, while visiting Anan Bay, southeast Alaska, a warden 
found the boat Zora, of Seattle, fishing for salmon with a seine one 
end of which was attached to the corner of a fish trap. This was in 
violation of section 4 of the fisheries act approved June 26, 1906, 
which forbids the setting of a seine or other net. within 100 yards of 
any other fishing appliance. The warden took the boat and crew 
to Wrangell and made complaint before the United States commis- 
sioner against the captain, August Budnich. The defendant pleaded 
guilty and was fined $120 and costs. 
On Sunday, August 20, 1916, one of the Bureau’s wardens found 
three boats fishing in Chilkoot River. On the same day he discovered 
31 set nets in Chilkoot Lake. The nets were taken to Haines and 
turned over to the United States marshal, and complaints were sworn 
out against the operators of the three boats and the 28 operators of the 
set nets. On August 21 the three boat cases were tried before the 
United States commissioner at Haines. All the defendants pleaded 
guilty, and each was fined $25 and costs. The trials of the set-net 
operators were held on August 23 and 24. All the defendants 
pleaded guilty and were fined from $1 to $250 each and costs. 
On September 5, 1916, the circuit court of appeals at San Fran- 
cisco affirmed the decision of the lower court in the case appealed by 
the Thlinket Packing Co. in respect to not closing certain pound nets 
in accordance with the weekly close period requirement of law. 
WAR DEPARTMENT REGULATIONS. 
In order to meet the requirements of law in regard to the erection 
of structures in navigable waters, the War Department issued, on 
March 15, 1916, the following regulations setting forth the conditions 
under which permission may be secured to construct pound nets in 
the waters of Alaska. 
War DEPARTMENT, 
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, 
Washington, March 15, 1916. 
To whom it may concern: 
The attention of those fishing in the waters of the coast of the Territory of Alaska, 
and in the navigable waters tributary thereto, is called to the provisions of section 
10 of the river and harbor act of March 3, 1899, as follows: 
Extract Section 10: ‘‘That the creation of any obstruction not affirmatively author- 
ized by Congress to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States — 
is hereby prohibited; and it shall not be lawful to build or commence the building ~ 
ofany * * * weir * *-* orotherstructureinany * * * navigableriver 
or other waters of the United States, outside established harbor lines, or where no — 
harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of — 
Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War.” 
