The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-09-04
CANNERY CAUSE
 PRESENT GRAVE
 FISH SHORTAGE
.U<A<A NEWS QUOTES OLD TIME ALASKAN. SAVING FLOATING
 E.>EEN oN LOWER YUKON TNt>l\o NL pr FISH SAYS IAIIEE Is SERIOUS.

uA lIIt Is SERlpt <
 ,.a people up ne.a may as we'll p,s.u ,o figure on nuyIug yom sal '.u H ans. auprru m to You from .u. States. for Il vii not be long .. Iu.r OI, srlsuuu run of u~n up Ur rNer. of Interior Alaska will be a luIn4 ot the rast, if the cdnnery u.a ghc mouth of the Yukon is permitted jo continue op.rauon.. unrestricted by regulations" Thus spoke an oldpmr Alaskan to a rep. .o-rurutr oI The News upon his aHvu a I.H days ago, rom the lower Yukon. where he saw ample evidence of the harm that is being wrought lo the salmon industry by J.lr floating canncrl that is being operated bl the Carlisle Packing company at the mouth of Kwiguk luu-h on the south mouth of the done during the run of king salmon }u.ou river.
 &o thoroughly was the fishing don. during the run of king salmon hat few oI the fish escaped the u-ra aad nsh.WhrrI. which filled the stream from Boring sra to the point where tn, main river divides, short distance bHon AndrcMski A dc~. Dubrd to the News the system oi nshng Is the most efficient imagi AauIp m-u0ug maximum of salmon ior inc cann"ry and d minimum for Ja. natives and whites n,iug above tne canncgy
 Ali along the Yukon. and on the ..I- streams. the natives, wAo dr- pend Iars,.y upon tine salmon for a UNug were waiting in vain for the .., Io arrive Their wheel. rcyolyed u.. III lhe current and the h7h-racl,a were aa bar, as tn, day they were .,na A lcN nah escaped the can l.-. ii .~ D.ue but like those caught as .soma fishermen. practically all D.r IaAc ones bore seine marks and N,u. muJ for human consumption.
 As already explained in these col, nuns. J.u rad menace of the can uen is not the present scarcity of l. .. or. n the future total and per m.n,nD depletion of the supply in preventing the hsh from returning to Jh"jr -paWuIns grounds on the tribu- laurs of the Yukon river At the present tate it will not take long to a.l tae Yukon "dry "
 Tha government declares thos" who know what the conditions are, |. mol sNlns Alaskans any protec- uau against the cannery demands for wholesale slaughter rhe regu- uu.us thus far maugurated, and as enforced, it IS claimed, are farce. For instance, it is pointed out tle government came to the rescue of ,upJbernrrS., when a protest was u,pd aglnSD the establishment of q ,aunrry at indrpaiakl last year, by dosing NWiguh slough to the fisher mnn IhS slough is q very unim .u.Daul channel of the Yukon rNel Towing from the south mouth of inc river a short distance from Der ing ~cl The south mouth proper i. the main channel, and it is up that stream that nearly all the sal ..9n mr.c their Woy to the upper i@cr Ap1 there js where the fish ing la being done.
 The Carlisle cannery is a floating concern. easily moved from one place jp another when occasion demands And when Dho Yukon has been empt, lra of ita fish the outfit will probably b., moved to another part of Alaska 10 continue its work of destruction I Is not an Alaskan institution, and nmI. employment is given to some NIa-Eans very considerable part of the force engaged is imported from jhc states for the season, as is done by the canneries operating along the coast of Alaska. The imported help gets the best positions, the best fish ing locations and the most consider ate treatment in other respects, il is claimed.
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