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CCWMEEICIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 13, No. 4 



vihile the use of set nets above the drift gill-net markers has been prohibited. 

 This, in effect, permits set-netting along the shores of the bay wherever drift- 

 netting is permitted. Also the set-net regulations have been relaxed to allow oper- 

 ations anywhere in the intertidal zones instead of confinement to a narrow strip of 

 beach adjacent to the high-tide line, as in 1950. 



ALASKA (see OTHER CUT FOR SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA) 



For the first time this year, the Department of the Interior finds it necessary 

 to place control on fishing for personal use. In the Cook Inlet area in the vicinity 

 of Anchorage, and in the upper Copper River, certain streams have been closed entirely 

 to salmon fishing, including that for local use. Only five out of the hundreds of 

 streams in Alaska, however, have been closed. Salmon runs in those streams , already 

 greatly reduced, would be completely destroyed without such protection. 



Commercial fishermen in Alaska have been expressing widespread opposition to 

 the use of the so-called "mothership," particularly in gill-net fishing, because of 

 the danger of overfishing. The prohibition against "mothership" operation, which 

 was previously applied only to purse seining, therefore has now been extended to in- 

 clude all forms of mobile gear. 



