The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-23

10 cents per 200 pound barrel {; whale, herring and other fish oils, s1 per 42 gallon barrel; fertilizer or meai,'. frofsf whale or other ac- quatic products other than kelp, when manufactured from other than offal, S per ton; whale meat fresh or frozen, 5 ] per ton; sable and red rock fish fresh, frozen or pickled 10 cents per 100 pounds; cod dry salted, and stock fish, $1 per ton, cod pickled and tongues. 10 cents per 200 pound barrel; cod fresh and frozen 50 cents per ton Provided the Alaska Fish Commission may all ter and change the license fees pro vided for in Sections 15 and 18 from year to year and tiX and levy such fees as in their opinion is necessary for carrying into effect the intent and provisions of this act"
 Fisheries Fund.
 Provision is made tor collection of all license fees by the commits 
 created from all license fees and taxes collected under the provisions of the act, with certain stated ex- captions, and all proceeds from the sale of confscated or condemned property and all fines assessed for violations of provisions of the fish ing laws. The fund is to be ex- pended under the direction of the commission for specified purposes. Licenses and fees are divided as follows: those collected on any busi- ness carried on in any incorporated city or town to be paid to the treas urer of such town for use for school and municipal purposes within the! town herein collected; two-fifths of the remainder collected to be cov- cred into the Alaska, Fisheries Fund.- third, the balance of the col lections to be covered into the gen. eral Alaska Fisheries Fund.
 Traps and Other Locations.
 Section 25 covers trap and other locations and how they are made It deals with every kind of fishing location, describing the procedure of securing licenses and the rights carried under the licenses.
 Other provisions include dimen- sions and regulation of pound nets the construction of stake nets and set nets, marking of boats and fish ing appliances, dimensions of purse seines, seines and gill nets, determ- ination of passageways, while sec ton 26 gives the commission the right and power to cancel the f- cense of any fish trap or other fish ing appliance and the location upon which situated whenever it shall deem the same to be "an ineffective devise for catching fish"
 Seasonal Closed Periods.
 Seasonal closed periods for South east ern Alaskan waters are provid- ed. These cover period of 20 days In the waters south of line eX- tending westerly from Cape Fan shaw through the center of Freder- ick Sound to it's junction with Chatham Strait, thence westerly across Chatham Strait to the north point of the entrance of Red Blun Bay on the east coast of BaranoF Island the closed period extends from August 20 to September 10 each year, and after October le until the opening of the succeeding season.
 North of the same line and west erly of IA degrees and 35 minutes, west longitude, q closed period from August 1 5 to September 5 is pro- vided and after October 10 until the succeeding season. Other dis II jets with weekly closed periods are the Copper River system and Cook Inlet, the former also being iyided into zones, each with def l mite seasonal closed period. Sea sonal closing is also provided fol
 Bristol Bay. The commission i! empowered to change in its discre
 ton and in any way the seasona i periods of closure. Fishing in rivers
 except certain streams, for com