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REPORT OF ALASKA INVESTIGATIONS. 



ruining their business. Hand trailers can fish deeper, they get larger fish, they lose fewer fish, and the 

 results have proved far less injurious than the new method of power-boat trolling. I would strongly 

 advocate the prohibition of power-boat trolling in Alaska waters. 



SALMON SALTERIES. 



The salting of salmon in Alaska is now confined chiefly to the Bering Sea region, where the red or 

 sockeye salmon is available for this purpose. In southeast Alaska the industry has declined very per- 

 ceptibly in recent years, chiefly because of the fact that in this section most of the salmon salted have been 



Sketch of waters that should be closed to commercial fishing. 



pinks, the market for which in the last few years has not been strong. Moreover, the mild-cure field has 



been much more profitable and attractive to most of those formerly engaged in salting operations. In 



southeast Alaska red salmon are less abundant and are therefore considered to be more valuable for canning 



than for salting. 



CLOSING STREAMS TO COMMERCIAL FISHING. 



Owing to the ever increasing demand on nearly all waters of Alaska for almost their entire supply of 

 salmon, it seems absolutely necessary in the interests of the future of the fishery to make further closures 

 of streams to all commercial fishing. A number of waters have already been so closed by order of the 

 Secretary of Commerce, and it is recommended that six other waters be similarly closed, as enumerated 

 below : 



