The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-05
Terms of Proposed Fishing Laz0s Designed To Regulate Gear and
 CurtaiI Extenf of Operations


 licenses; fee of $1OO for recording of same.
 Recognizes prior rights and pTe vents the issuance of two licenses covering the same location.
 Regulations of Traps
 Trap or other net or drag seine locations may be made by surveying and mapping same, recording loca
 tions and maps with the Commission giving locator exclusive right to hold
 mortgage, sell and transfer the same
 Recognizes all locations made and
 used during the year 1919 and in ac
 cordance with existing laws except
 the same occupied by any appliance
 operated within one thousand yards
 outside the mouth of any salmon
 spawning stream. No drag seine To
 cation to occupy greater length of
 shere line than twice the length oE
 same covered by the license therefor
 Fixes the limits on gear as fol lows: No fish trap shall exceed 240t feet in length over all nor be con.
 structed and operated in more than 100 feet depth at the outside and
 1t mean high tide except that they may be located in a depth of water
 extend out from the shore d greater distance than 1000 feet over all at mean high tide. There shall be ar endwise passageway of at least 60t feet and a lateral passageway of ai | least 2.500 feet between all traps ano no appliance shall be constructed ol | operated within 2,500 feet lateralls or 600 feet endwise of any other | The lead may be extended to higt !, water mark on tide lands of the U 5. or other tide lands with the con sent of the owner. Wings or jiggers of trap may not be of greater length than 300 feet over all nor shall the outer end approach within | 100 feet of the lead. Not more than one wing or jieeef- s4ffst44f hbe hbe attached | to each side of the heart. Failure of licensee to operate any trap after two years shall constitute abandon | ment of the location and forfeiture of license. Commission has the right to cancel license for any appliance and location when deemed an in effective device for catching fish Any set or stake net location not used for any year shall constitute abandonment.
 Closing Traps
 Closing traps during closed season shall be by hauling the tunnel to one side against entrance of the pot or by an apron placed against entrance to the tunnel. which apron shall extend from above the surface ol the water to the bottom of the poi and be securely connected to the billings on either side of the pot and in addition an opening 9 feet wide shall be in the webbing on either side of the heart of such next to
 the pot leaving passage way moi less than feet in width at extreme low tide. Where the water is less than 60 feet in depth the shoyedown
 shall extend to the bottom.
 Stake nets shall be constructed by stakes driven in substantially a straight line and not in the form oi
 trap. They shall not exceed 1,S0C feet in length and free passage oi
 at least 300 feet, in the lateral pas sageway of 1000 feet, shall be pro vided between stake nets and be tween stake nets and set nets. A tag, brand or notice in black letters six inches high showing the license number shall be attached to fixed appliances or to a boat carry ing appliances.
 Limitations of Nets
 No purse seine shall be longer than 1,S00 feet including attachments measured on cork lines when wet No lead or supplementary piece of
 net shall be used in connection there with. No beach seine shall exceed 5000 feet in length. No seine less
 than 90 fathoms in length shall be
 used and the possession of same in
 any boat or in the possession of any person shall be deemed prima facie evidence of illegal fishing. Gill nets shall not exceed 1890 feet in length and shall have not less than five and three quarter stretched mesh, especially in the red salmon fisher ies Boring Sea. After the year 1923 no gill nets with less than this size stretched mesh shall be used in any of the salmon fisheries.
 Any location fixed in 1919 and valid ated by this Act may be continued in accordance with the law as to the passage ways in force immediately prior to the time this Act becomes effective. or may be changed to con form with the requirements, requir- ing new map in this instance, but
 no change shall be made which inter-
 feres with another existing location. Except as otherwise provided, a WpplxIv clOcad narfnd frnn, Six n m