The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-06-21
MAY CATCH FISH
ANY TIME FOR
FAMILY USE
In Salt Waters of Puget Sound
Say Board Orders.
Seattle. Wash.

Seattle, Wash,
June 10th, 1921
In a series of five orders adopted
today, all effective July 18th, 1921,
save the one dealing with the Du-
vanish River, which last named is
made effective as of date June goth,
1921, the State Fisheries Board
made far reaching changes in the
salmon fishery regulations of the
state, according to a statement is
sued by L. II. Darwin, State Su-
pervisor of Fisheries and Secretary
of the State Fisheries Board
These changes have to do in large
part with Grays Harbor, Willapa
Harbor and the Columbia River and
it's tributaries in the State of Wash
ington. No change can be made
by the Fisheries Board in the fish
ing regulations on the Columbia
River where it forms the boundary
between Oregon and Washington
because Of the compact which ex-
lists between Oregon and Washing
ton.
In the orders adopted today by
the State Fisheries Board, consist
ing of Chairman +. A. Sims, Cap
tain Harry Ramwell and Mr.. Ed
ward p. Blake, the use Of fish
traps is prohibited in the tribu-
taries of Grays Harbor and Willapa
Harbor in certain areas where they
have existed since before state
hood Fishery questions, which
have dead-locked legislative sessions
of the past, have been disposed of
in these orders of the Board in
way intended to increase the fish
runs in the future, even though the
taking of salmon at the present
time may be curtailed.
The first of the orders adopted
Number Three is of interest to
the greatest number of people, be-
cause it gives to every person
the right to take salmon for the use
of themselves and families in any
Of the salt waters of the state at
any time, and in the fresh waters
of the state during the same times
that it is lawful to fish for trout,
This order, which relates entirely
to the taking of salmon for the use
of the taker and his family pro-
hibits the taking of any of less
than six inches in length, and pro-
| vides that no person may take or
have in possession more than three
of over fifteen inches in length in
any one day, nor more than twenty
five fish or twenty pounds in weight
between six inches and fifteen
inches in length in any one day.
Order Number Four closes the
Columbia River and all of its trib-
utaries within the State of Wash
ington to the taking of salmon, eX-
cept under the provisions allowing
their taking for a persons own
use contained in Order Number
Three. The effect of this order
will be to preserve the upper trib-
utaries of the Columbia from fish
ing in a commercial way, and tC
protect the natural and artificial
propagation, so necessary to the
maintenance and rehabilitation OF
the salmon runs of that stream.
Order Number Five deals with
Grays Harbor and its tributaries
All the tributaries Of Grays Harbol
are closed, with the exception of the
Chehals and Humptulips rivers, and
in these two fishing is only per
mitted a very short distance up
stream.
Many of the oldest established
fish trap locations in the Grays
Harbor District are within the area
closed by this order of the Board.
Fishing is only permitted in
Grays Harbor with gill nets, set
nets, pound nets or traps, and hooks
and lines.
The Johns River and Elk River,
heretofore open to commercial fish7
ing, are entirely closed
The new order prohibits the es-
Establishments of any new fish trap
locations in this harbor.
| The seasons are also shortened
and changed so that under the new
orders salmon may be taken be-
tween September 18th and Novem-
Der 18th, and between aJnuary 10th
and March 18th, while from June
1st to September 18th fishing may
be carried on only four days each
week between 600 P. NJ. Saturday
and 900 P NJ. Wednesday follow
ing.
Order Number Six deals with
Willapa Harbor, limiting the fish
ing there to the use of gill nets,
set nets, pound nets or traps, and
hooks and lines, and substituting
new seasons when fishing may be
carried on from those now exist
| ing.
The new fishing seasons are from
August 18th to November goth, and
from January 18th to March 18th.
Fishing is curtailed in several of
the tributaries, by moving the limits
down near their mouths.
In Willapa Harbor, as in Grays
Harbor, fish trap locations which
have been in existence for many
years are, under the new orders of
the Board, within the area where
fishing is prohibited.
Order Number Seven closes to
salmon fishing the Duwanish River
and its tributaries, and that por-
ton of Puget Sound into which the
Duwanish enters, located south and
east of line drawn from the Du-
vanish Head bell bouy in Seattle
Harbor to Four Mile Rock in or near
Seattle Harbor, save that persons
may take salmon for their own or
| families use under the provisions of
Order Number Three.
While the refusal of the Canadian
Dominion Fishery authorities to en-
ter into any negotiations, looking
to the curtalment of sockeye fish
ing in Puget Sound and the Fraser
River, until the sockeye fishery
treaty is finally rejected by the
| limited States Senate makes it i'm
possible for the State Fisheries