The Alaska daily empire., 1920-01-22
AN OFFICIAL
 STATEMENT OF
 FISHING RULES
Secretary, of the Depart ment of Commerce Sends Governors Office the
 Fishing Restrictions

An Offlc1a1l statement Of fishing re- strictions in, Alaska from the Secre- tary of the Department of Commerce has been received at the Governors office, an outline having been given in press dispatches shortly after the hearing held in Seattle. The state ment follows
 To whom it may concern:
 Hearings having been given at Seattle, Wash. November 20, 1913 and November 20, 1919. respectively, after due notice in accordance with law, for the purpose of determining the advisability of limiting or pro- hibiting fishing in certain waters in Alaska, and to amend or modify the order of December 2l. 1918, and all persons having had full opportunity to be heard, 1t is hereby ordered, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 6 of An Act for the pro- tection and regulation of the fisheries of Alaska" approved June 26, 1906, that until further notice all fishing for salmon, or other fishing in the prosecution of which salmon are talk en or injured, in all hereinafter-de. scribed waters of Alaska be and is hereby subject to the following limita- tions and prohibitions in addition to the general restrictions already ap- plicable by virtue of existing laws and regulations: .
 l. Waters east of the longitude of Cape Spencer: (a) All fishing is pro hibited in all salmon streams and their tributaries and lakes. (b) All fishing. except with purse seines and drift gill nets, is prohibited within 500 yards of the mouths of all sal. mon streams. tc) All fishing with purse seines and drift gill nets is prohibited within 200 yards of the mouth of all salmon streams, and all fishing with purse seines and drift gill nets as well as with all other apparatus is prohibited within 300 yards of the mouths of Chii- kat river. Chilkoot river, Anan creek, Hetta creek, Sockeye creek and Neha stream.
 2. All fishing is prohibited in all salmon streams, their tributaries and lakes, and within 300 yards of the mouths of such streams, flowing into the Pacific ocean or Boring sea be- tween Cape Spencer and Cape New man, except as follows: (a) Fishing is permitted in Boring river below a line extending at right angles across Boring river from point approx imately 800 feet northwesterly from the mouth of Gandil river. (b) Fish ing is permitted in Copper river and terms of the order promulgated De eember 20, 1918, which order is con tinued in full force. Co Fishing is permitted at Karluk beyond the zone 100 yards outside the mouth of kar- luk river where 1t breaks through Karluk Spit into Shelikof Strait. (d) Fishing is permitted in Ugashik river below line extending at right angles across the -Ugashik 800 yards below the mouth of King Salmon river.
 g. The driving of salmon down stream and the causing of salmon to go outside the protected area at the mouth of any salmon stream are ex. pressly prohibited.
 f. This order does not apply to persons taking salmon with rod, hand line. or spear for their personal orl family use and not for sale or barter.
 ,. The waters of the Afognak Rel are covered by Presidential Proclamation of December, 25. 1892, and tile regulations promulgated by thereof are not modified or affected by this order but remain in full force.
 6. All previous orders of the Sec! retary of Commerce. imposing linita. tions or prohibitions npon fishing in the waters. covered by this order, except as hereinbefore indicated. are hereby superseded.
 2. This order becomes effective 1. 1920. ~r4
 tSigned) J W. ALEXANDER