April 1951 



CCMMERCIAL FISHEEOES REVIEW 



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The 1951 regulations require a new method of rendering salmon traps inoperative 

 during seasonal and weekly closed periods. A section of the pot v«all of each trap 

 must be opened and sealed in place during such closed seasons. 



In the areas of Central Alaska, the principal changes include longer weekly- 

 closed periods in Cook Inlet, Resurrection Bay, and Yakutat, On Kodiak Island the 

 midseason closure from July I5 to August 1 will be effective in 1951 in the Red 

 River district as well as in the other districts in the area. The fishing season 

 in the Karluk district will close on July 15 for the ronainder of the year. A sum- 

 mer season from July 10 to August 7 will be permitted in the Copper River area for 

 red salmon because of the opinion that there is a small run in that area not now 

 being utilized. 



In the Yakutat area the king salmon season has been curtailed in Dry Bay but 

 fishing for red salmon has been liberalized and will ccmmence on June 18 instead 

 of July 1. 



Throughout Southeastern Alaska the maximum length of purse seines has been 

 standardized at 250 fathoms, with which a lead of 75 fathoms may be used. The tak- 

 ing of coho salmon by any means is prohibited in the area from September 20 to 

 July 1 of the following year. The prohibition against taking or possessing under- 

 sized king salmon, which applied throughout Alaska in 1950, will apply only in 

 Southeastern Alaska in 1951. 



The Fish and Wildlife Service, which make 

 regulations for Alaska, reports that there was 

 Southeastern Alaska in 1949 and evidence in- 

 dicates a high survival ratio from that es- 

 capement. The run this year is expected to 

 be good and fishing will be permitted from 

 August 6 to September 1, as compared with 

 August 15 to September 3 last year. Fall 

 fishing for chums from October 1 to Octo- 

 ber 6 will be experimental in nature and 

 close watch will be maintained to see that 

 no undue numbers of late pink salmon are 

 taken. In addition, the new regulations 

 will permit a limited ptirse-seine fishery 

 from July 16 to July 28 in the outside 

 waters from Cape Muzon to Cape Ulitka. 



s and enforces the commercial fishing 

 a good escapement of pink salmon in 



CANADA 





GULF OF ALaSJCi 



To protect the herring resources, 

 the commercial quota for 1951 has been re- 

 duced from 150,000 to 100,000 barrels. 

 The Service reports that thir^ reduction 

 was necessary because the stocks of her- 

 ring in Southeastern Alaska suffered a 

 further decline in 1950 because so few 

 young fish, which are the basis of the future fishery, appeared. 



The 1951 regulations are based upon investigations and recommendations made 

 by Fish and Wildlife Service, testimony presented at public hearings in the major 

 fishing communities in Alaska and in Seattle, Wash., and information submitted in 

 briefs by persons interested in protecting the resource. 



