The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-07-08
Fisheries Boards
Orders Nos. 8 to II

In a series OF five orders Just
promulgated by the State Fisheries
Board of Washington, effective July
20, 1921, salmon fishing on Puget
Sound is curtailed; the weekly
closed season on the Sockeye and
humpback fishing grounds is moved
forward "a hours. Seven spawning
preserves are created and the Sno-
nomish and Skagit Rivers are clos
ed beginning October 26, 1921"
says statement issued by l.. II.
Darwin, Secretary of the Board and
State Supervisor of Fisheries. The
Board consists of: Chairman E. A.
Sims, Capt. Ii. Ramwell and Edw.
Z. Blake.
Of paramount Importance, because
of their affecting the fishing sea-
son just opening, are Orders Nos.
IL and IL.
| Order No. II closes all of Puget
Sound to salmon fishing except with
nook and line for the personal use
of the taker from the 26th day of
August to the 18th day Of Septem-
Der and from the Goth day of Oc-
tober to the 30th day of the fol-
lowing April, all dates inclusive.
| Ilt ClOocu oCdoOll llObi %huS, e'oN
10th to September 18th will permit
of by far the largest portion of
the numpback run escaping to the
spawning grounds as it is during
this time that this specie of salmon
runs in the largest number. The
closed season from the Goth day
, of October to the Both day of the
following April affords protection
to silversides, chums or dogs, and
steelheads.
, Order No. II advances the week.
ly closed season of July and Au-
gust on Puget Sound twenty-four
Z hours in that portion of the Sound
l westerly and notherly of line
drawn from Point Wilson to Point
t Partridge and across the western
entrance of Deception Pass.
: The object of this order is to
permit the closed season on Puget
Sound to proceed and overlap the
closed season of the Fraser River
in British Columbia, thus permit
! ting of a greater escape of sock
y eye salmon up that stream than
under the present conditions where
the seasons are identical.
In the waters above described, the
closed season now starting on Fri
, day at 400 P. NJ, will start on
Thursday at 400 P. NJ, as re-
CARDS all gear except gill nets. and
ends at 400 A. M. Saturday. The
:; closed season for gill nets starts at
600 o'clock Friday morning and con-
tinues until 600 o'clock Saturday
night.
Order No. creates seven spawn
i, ing preserves, or areas, on Puget
Sound known respectively as the
J Nisqually, Puyallup, Kitsap, Lake
Washington, Hoods Canal, Samish-
:, Nooksack and San Jaun Spawning
, Preserves. These preserves are
closed during the entire year.
In their total, they represent a
very considerable portion of the wa
ters of Puget Sound and those
areas in which the largest spawning
tributaries enter; and serve the
double purpose of protecting the
approach of those streams of the
adult spawning fish, and of the
resulting young fish, which later on
come down these streams and re-
main feeding in the vicinity of their
mouths.
Order No. 8 prohibits fishing for
; salmon with any kind of appliance,
save hook and line, within a dis
lance of three miles outside the
mouth of any river flowing into
Puget Sound, except the Snohomish
Skagit and Stillaguamsh Rivers,
during the fishing season of 1921
: After the 1921 season, the rule will
apply to these rivers.
This order provides, however, that
where river enters into one of the
preserves established, or any area
= of Puget Sound closed to fishing
by the State Fisheries Board, and
the boundry of said preserve is less
than three miles from the mouth
t of said river, salmon may be taken
5 up to the border of the preserve
or closed area.
5 Order No. 10 closes the Skagit,
= and Snohomish rivers to fishing
after October 26, 1921 by any
means, save hook and line, for the
use of the taker and his family.
These are the only two rivers
emptying into Puget Sound, which
now remain open to commercial
: fishing.