FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1910. 



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The following table shows the name of the owner, location of each 

 private salmon hatchery operated during the year ending June 30, 

 1910, the number of salmon (red) liberated, and the amount of rebate 

 certificates due each hatchery: 



Rebates Credited to Private Salmon Hatcheries in 1910. a 



a Some of the hatcheries did not complete their distribution of fry before July 1; those remaining will 

 be counted next year. 



COMPLAINTS AND PROSECUTIONS. 



On Sunday, May 22, in Taku Inlet, southeast Alaska, the assistant 

 agent discovered Henry Hoeke, S. Nelson, John Hanula, Tom Carvo, 

 Abraham Lahti, Oscar Lustig, Van Oleson, and Ole Oleson fishing 

 during the weekly closed season. All were brought before the United 

 States commissioner at Juneau for preliminary hearing and bound 

 over to the next grand jury. On October 24 all were indicted by the 

 grand jury held at Ketchikan, and on the 29th of the same month all 

 but Van and Ole Oleson pleaded guilty. S. Nelson and Henry Hoeke 

 were fined $50 each, while the others were fined $25 each. The Oleson 

 brothers elected to be tried in Juneau, and on December 10 they 

 appeared in court there and pleaded guilty; sentence was deferred 

 for six months. 



In October a man named Mitchell was reported by other fishermen as 

 violating the weekly closed season in the Taku River. He was 

 indicted by the December grand jury, but was acquitted upon his trial 

 the same month. 



A visit to Tamgas Stream, a tributary of Tamgas Harbor, on the 

 south end of Annette Island, in southeast Alaska, on July 25, devel- 

 oped the fact that a trap was being fished in the creek in violation of 

 the law. Tamgas Stream is a short and narrow stream draining a 

 lake, and a run of red and other salmon annually ascends the stream. 

 About 300 yards from its mouth are a succession of cascades and 

 falls. In the narrowest part of the cascades a rack had been con- 

 structed of poles driven into the bottom and covered with wire 

 netting in such way as almost wholly to prevent salmon from passing 

 up, the portion uncovered being too steep for any but the strongest 

 to surmount. Just below and running parallel to the rack, and at 

 right angles to the shore, was constructed a flume, with a flaring 



