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net them from the water below the barrier. In such places 

 traps are built with wings and low dams up which the fish 

 can pass into a pool or lake, which at its head is dammed 

 by an impassable barrier. When the pool is full, or nearly 

 so, it is swept clean by the net and left empty to be filled 

 again. Thus all the breeding fish of a season may be and 

 often are caught. 



I was told that one of the great corporations established 

 in Alaska had received permission to establish a fish 



CAMP OF NATIVE SALMON FISHERMEN, KADIAK ISLAND. 



hatchery, and that the employees of this company during 

 the day catch fish ostensibly to strip for the hatchery and 

 at night take them back to the cannery and can them. 



It is well remembered that the island of Afognak, lying 

 just east of Kadiak Island, and in one of the richest sal- 

 mon regions of Alaska, was set aside some years since by 

 Presidential proclamation as a forest reserve. Formerly 

 there was a cannery on this island, but it has been dis- 



