REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. OT 
1. Barricades of all kinds in all streams and lakes should be pro- 
hibited, except for fish-cultural purposes. 
In lakes and in streams of the second class those under 
500 feet in width and having a tributary lake—no fishing should be 
allowed at any time except with rod or spear or gaff, unless for 
hatchery purposes. 
3. No trap or pound net, floating or fixed, should be permitted 
within 1 mile of the mouth of any stream less than 500 feet in width, 
and flowing from a lake or having a lake tributary to it. In the case 
of each stream of this class, the Bureau of Fisheries should mark in 
some conspicuous way the point above which fishing with nets would 
not be allowed. Until so marked no fishing should be permitted 
within 100 yards of the point of discharge of such stream at mean low 
water. 
4, The problem of the use of traps in the large streams and their 
estuaries is a most difficult one. If we are to consider the ultimate 
interests of Alaska and the permanence of her salmon fisheries, no 
traps should be allowed anywhere. They are most harmful where 
most successful, especially in the flowing streams. The traps in Wood 
River, and probably those in Kussilof River also, ought to be removed; 
those in Chignik Lagoon should at least be limited in number. But to 
remove the traps from those waters would practically close up the 
canneries depending upon them for their supply of fish; where traps 
or pound nets are allowed, a special permission and a special license 
should be required for each, and each should conform to the following 
provisions: No trap should be nearer than 100 yards to any other, and - 
no trap should extend more than one-third the distance across the 
stream, estuary, lagoon, or arm of the sea in which it may be placed, 
and no net of any kind should be set which at the time of setting is 
within 100 yards of a net set by another person, firm, or corporation. 
5. A weekly closed season should be provided, extending from 6 
p. m. Saturday to 6 a. m. Monday, for all portions of Alaska, except 
in Bering Sea and its tributary waters. 
6. All matters pertaining to the salmon and all other fisheries of 
Alaska, including the fur seal and sea otter, should be placed in the 
hands of the Commissioner of Fisheries, under the Secretary of Com- 
merce and Labor. The personnel of the Bureau of Fisheries should 
be correspondingly increased, and means provided in the way of 
vessels for travel, to render effective the inspection of the fisheries, 
the investigation of the streams, and the operation of the hatcheries. 
The necessity for expert service, if this inspection is to be maintained, 
is self-evident. It demands a knowledge of the fishes, of the fisheries, 
of fishery apparatus, methods, and products, of statistical methods, 
and the methods and results of fish culture—different kinds of expert 
knowledge which can not often be in the possession of one man, 
