Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-04-01

license number, preceded by capital
not less than six inches in length
painted on white ground.
Sec. 5. No lead of any pound net,
trap, set net, fish wheel or other fixed
appliance used or operated in the waters
of the Columbia river or its tributaries
in this state shall exceed eight hundred
feet in length, and in the waters of Pu-
get Sound two thousand feet in length.
There shall be passage way OF at
least thirty feet and lateral passage
way of at least nine hundred feet be.
tween all pound nets, traps, set nets,
weirs, fish wheels or other fixed appli-
ances hereafter constructed and placed
within the waters OF the Columbia river
and its tributaries within this state, and
there shall be an end passage way of at
least six hundred feet and lateral pas
sage way OF at least twenty-four hundred
feet between all pound nets, traps, weirs,
or other fixed appliances hereafter con-
structed and placed within the waters OF
Puget Sound in this state. Any person
violating any of the provisions of this
section shall be guilty of misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined in any sum not less than fifty dol
lars nor more than one hundred dollars
for each and every offense.
Sec. 6. Any and all appliances used
in violation OF any OF the provisions Of
this act, viz: boats, traps, weirs, fish
wheels or other appliances shall be SUBJ
ject to execution for the payment OF fines
herein provided. Such appliances may
be seized by the fish commissioner and
shall be forfeited to the state, and the
proceeds shall be turned into the fish
hatchery fund, and the superior courts of
the state shall have exclusive jurisdic-
ton in all such cases.
Sec. I. Upon application therefor by
any person, an annual license shall be
issued by the fish commissioner for fixed
and other appliances for catching salmon
as herein provided, which shall entitle
the holders to fish only in the waters OF
this state and in the waters over which
this state has concurrent jurisdiction,
wherein such appliances are not prohib-
tied by law The following fees for such
licenses shall be collected by the fish
commissioner and paid over to the state
treasurer the first OF each month and by
hun turned into the fish hatchery tlnd,
to-wit:
For each drag seine not exceeding
$50 feet in length ....,......$ 2 80
Each drag seine over 250 and less
than 500 feet in length ....... 10 90
Each drag seine upwards of 500
feet in length .... ....... Is co |
Each purse seine. ........... 20 90 |
Each gill net ............... 2 80
Each set net ................... GO
Each pound net, trap or weir on
the Columbia river. ....... 10 co |
Each pound net, trap or weir oil
Willapa llarbor. ............ 10 90 |
Each pound net, trap or weir lex
cept on the Columbia river and
on Willapa IIarbor ......... % 90
Each scow fish wheel ..... Is 90 |
Stationary fish wheels shall pay
S25 90 for first-class wheels, and
$1,000 for second-class wheels;
the classification to be deter
mined by fish commissioner.
Each cannery packing from 10000
to 20, 900 cases .............. so 90
Each cannery packing from 10000
to 80, 900 cases ............... 60 %
Each cannery packing from 10000
to AZ, 900 cases ............... II w
Each cannery packing over 10000
CuscS. ..... luO w
(Rates OF canneries to be based upon
pack of each preceding year, Provided
however, that any person or corporation,
after having obtained license as pro-
vided for in this act shall indicate loca-
tons for traps or pound nets made under
such license, by driving at least three
substantial piles thereon, which must
extend not less than ten feet above the
surface of the water at high tide, one OF
said piles to be driven at each end Of the
location claimed, and upon said terminal
piles there must be posted the license
number, and if the locator fails to con-
struct his appliance during the fishing
season covered by his license, such loca-
ton shall be deemed abandoned.
Sec. 8. Any person or corporation
owning, operating or maintaining or u.s.
ing any pound nets, trap, set nets, weirs,
fish wheels or other fixed appliances, or
any seines, gill nets or drift nets for the
purpose of catching salmon within or
upon any OF the waters OF this state
without first having obtained a license so
to do, as provided for in this act, shall
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor. and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined in
any sum not less than fifty dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars, and any
assignee OF license shall be deemed
without a license to operate, own, main
tain OF use such appliances, unless no.
tice OF such assignment, as required by
this act, has been given to the fish COM
missioner.
Sec. .. All moneys collected for IL
cCnscs and fines under the provisions of
this act shall be turned into the state
treasury and placed in the fish hatchery
fund.-
Sec. 10. The act Of the legislature Of
the state Of Was ington approved Feb
ruary 10, 1858, entitled "An act regula-
ting fish traps, pound nois, weirs, set
nets, fish wheels Or other fixed appi-
ances ion catching salmon in the Coum-