and found plenty of fish in every creek. 
“ ‘Then the white men found out 
about our fish and they built canneries. 
First they threw away all “humpback” 
salmon by the hundreds of thousands, 
which we saw with our. own eyes be¬ 
cause the same cannerymen that now 
want to save the salmon did not want 
to can anything but red salmon. 
“ ‘Then these same cannerymen 
found out about fish traps, some hav¬ 
ing leads half a mile long, and they 
placed these traps all around our fish 
streams, and they caught all the fish 
because the trap works day and night, 
and does not sleep like we do, and soon 
there were no fish in the creeks, and 
now when we ask the cannerymen what 
we will do for a living they tell us that 
it is not their business.’ 
, “I’ve just come from there and I 
know,” Cap’n Ned remonstrated angri¬ 
ly. “These letters—lots of ’em—don’t 
come from selfish folks; they come 
from natives who see what is happen¬ 
ing. Human selfishness will even do 
away with the salmon — for present 
greed! Overfishing! Th’ fellers I 
mixed with caught th’ fish fair —with 
seines and nets. This here trap meth¬ 
od is a modern idea!” 
Sonnyboy was gradually learning the 
unsportsmanlike phases of “sportsman¬ 
ship.” He had witnessed the degrada¬ 
tion of the southern fishermen and the 
slaughter of sailfish, for example; he 
had heard stories of the hard-hearted 
trout angler; he had seen the great 
forest fires, and he had caught echoes 
of what was happening to winter deer. 
These accidental lessons were fine for 
a growing boy, whose tendencies were 
already in the direction of sport, afield 
and on fertile waters. Cap’n Ned was 
simply another text-book of the gentle 
art of “playing fair.” 
“Mister Sutherland is a just man. 
He’s doing th’ best he can. He says, 
says he: ‘Th’ purpose of th’ executive 
order, which turned half of the fishing 
territory into a fisheries reserve, with 
the 16-year-old law suspended in favor 
of special regulations by the Bureau of 
Fisheries, was to apply restrictive 
measures to all alike. Yep—th’ pur¬ 
pose of creating th’ reservation was 
commendable enough, but th’ adminis¬ 
tration of th’ order has proved that th’ 
restrictive measures have been applied 
to the native fishermen, while th’ can- 
ners have been granted special dis¬ 
pensations. 
“ ‘Th’ Bureau of Fisheries has 
turned over to th’ manufacturing in¬ 
terests — th’ packers — full control of 
th’ fisheries, by designating great 
water areas in which these fellers are 
given exclusive rights and in which th’ 
independent fishermen can’t fish except 
by permission of th’ canners to whom 
th’ fishing grounds belong. Under a 
system such as. this, there is no longer 
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