﻿FISHERY 
  INDUSTRIES. 
  55 
  

  

  ing 
  comprised 
  17 
  per 
  cent 
  of 
  the 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  red 
  salmon 
  entering 
  

   Lake 
  Aleknagik. 
  

  

  Operations 
  at 
  the 
  rack 
  were 
  facilitated 
  very 
  largely 
  through 
  assist- 
  

   ance 
  rendered 
  by 
  the 
  Alaska 
  Packers 
  Association. 
  The 
  Alaska 
  Port- 
  

   land 
  Packers 
  Association 
  furnished 
  a 
  boat 
  for 
  towing 
  equipment 
  to 
  

   the 
  rack 
  site. 
  

  

  The 
  Department's 
  order 
  of 
  December 
  17, 
  1907, 
  closing 
  Wood 
  and 
  

   Nushagak 
  Rivers 
  to 
  commercial 
  fishing, 
  was 
  disregarded 
  this 
  season, 
  

   by 
  some 
  natives 
  who 
  operated 
  stake 
  nets 
  in 
  the 
  restricted 
  region 
  and 
  

   sold 
  the 
  catch 
  to 
  neighboring 
  canneries. 
  It 
  is 
  the 
  purpose 
  hereafter 
  

   to 
  allow 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  native 
  stake 
  nets 
  in 
  the 
  closed 
  waters 
  for 
  domestic 
  

   purposes 
  only. 
  During 
  the 
  past 
  season 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  236 
  stake 
  nets- 
  

   in 
  operation 
  were 
  outside 
  of 
  the 
  closed 
  region. 
  

  

  A 
  patrol 
  was 
  again 
  maintained 
  this 
  season 
  to 
  see 
  that 
  fishing 
  boats 
  

   from 
  the 
  canneries 
  did 
  not 
  invade 
  the 
  restricted 
  waters. 
  To 
  insure 
  a 
  

   uniform 
  determination 
  season 
  by 
  season 
  of 
  the 
  mouths 
  of 
  Wood 
  and 
  

   Nushagak 
  Rivers, 
  fixed 
  range 
  markers 
  have 
  been 
  established. 
  These 
  

   markers 
  are 
  of 
  iron 
  pipe 
  set 
  40 
  feet 
  apart, 
  the 
  first 
  being 
  12 
  feet 
  

   back 
  from 
  the 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  tundra 
  bank. 
  The 
  bearing 
  of 
  the 
  Wood 
  

   River 
  ranges 
  above 
  Snag 
  Point 
  is 
  NE., 
  while 
  those 
  for 
  the 
  Nushagak 
  

   River 
  are 
  at 
  Picnic 
  Point 
  and 
  bear 
  N. 
  From 
  these 
  ranges 
  piles 
  are 
  

   fixed 
  offshore 
  for 
  the 
  guidance 
  of 
  the 
  fishermen. 
  

  

  AFOGNAK 
  RESERVATION. 
  

   FISHING 
  REGULATIONS. 
  

  

  On 
  March 
  21, 
  1912, 
  the 
  following 
  order 
  was 
  issued 
  by 
  the 
  Secretary 
  

   permitting 
  a 
  limited 
  amount 
  of 
  commercial 
  fishing 
  in 
  the 
  reserved 
  

   waters 
  of 
  the 
  Afognak 
  Island 
  Reservation: 
  

  

  To 
  tvhom 
  it 
  may 
  concern: 
  

  

  A 
  proclamation 
  by 
  the 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  promulgated 
  December 
  24, 
  

   1892, 
  created 
  the 
  Afognak 
  Forest 
  and 
  Fish 
  Culture 
  Reserve, 
  which 
  is 
  now 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  

   the 
  Chugach 
  National 
  Forest. 
  The 
  proclamation 
  states 
  that 
  — 
  

  

  "There 
  is 
  hereby 
  reserved 
  from 
  occupation 
  and 
  sale, 
  and 
  set 
  apart 
  as 
  a 
  Public 
  

   Reservation, 
  including 
  use 
  for 
  fish 
  culture 
  stations, 
  said 
  Afognak 
  Island, 
  Alaska 
  and 
  

   its 
  adjacent 
  bays 
  and 
  rocks 
  and 
  territorial 
  waters, 
  including 
  among 
  others 
  the 
  Sea 
  

   Lion 
  Rocks, 
  and 
  Sea 
  Otter 
  Island: 
  Provided, 
  That 
  this 
  proclamation 
  shall 
  not 
  be 
  

   80 
  construed 
  as 
  to 
  deprive 
  any 
  bona 
  fide 
  inhabitant 
  of 
  said 
  Island 
  of 
  any 
  valid 
  right 
  

   he 
  may 
  possess 
  under 
  the 
  Treaty 
  for 
  the 
  cession 
  of 
  the 
  Russian 
  possessions 
  in 
  North 
  

   America 
  to 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  concluded 
  at 
  Washington, 
  on 
  the 
  thirtieth 
  day 
  of 
  

   March, 
  eighteen 
  hundred 
  and 
  sixty-seven. 
  

  

  ' 
  ' 
  Warning 
  is 
  hereby 
  expressly 
  given 
  to 
  all 
  persons 
  not 
  to 
  enter 
  upon, 
  or 
  to 
  occupy, 
  the 
  

   tract 
  or 
  tracts 
  of 
  land 
  or 
  waters 
  reserved 
  by 
  this 
  proclamation, 
  or 
  to 
  fish 
  in, 
  or 
  use 
  any 
  

   of 
  the 
  waters 
  herein 
  described 
  or 
  mentioned." 
  

  

  Sections 
  3 
  and 
  7 
  of 
  "An 
  act 
  to 
  establish 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  Commerce 
  and 
  Labor," 
  

   approved 
  February 
  14, 
  1903, 
  transfer 
  the 
  supervision 
  and 
  control 
  of 
  the 
  salmon 
  fisheries 
  

   of 
  Alaska 
  to 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  Commerce 
  and 
  Labor. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  exercise 
  of 
  the 
  authority 
  derived 
  from 
  these 
  sources 
  the 
  following 
  regulations 
  

   governing 
  the 
  reserved 
  waters 
  herein 
  defined 
  are 
  hereby 
  established 
  and 
  promulgated" 
  

  

  