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tecting salmon in Alaska should be borne by those who 

 are engaged in the business of catching and selling these 

 salmon. The canners should be taxed presumably on the 

 output of their factories, and the revenue received from 

 this source should be used from year to year for the pur- 

 pose of restocking the streams and protecting them. It 

 might be practicable also to lease certain streams to cer- 



SALMON DRYING BY ALEUTS. 



tain companies on reasonable terms, not permitting them 

 to fish except on the streams that they have leased. 



What has already been written concerns the summer 

 of 1898 and previous seasons. Since then, there appears 

 to have been no material change in the conditions, except 

 that the summer of 1900 was marked by an unusually 

 good run of salmon in certain rivers, and that certain 

 catches were large. 



The report of the Special Agent of the treasury for 1900, 

 which become accessible while these pages were passing 

 through the press (April 1901), shows that violations of the 

 law by the methods already described continue, and while 



