The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-21
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 SUTHERLAND STILL CONFUSING.

Delegate Sutherland, addressing the people c Anchorage the fisheries and the effect thereon c the recently created reserves, said
 The modification of aotments recently
 announced by the Bureau of Fisheries where
 by certain disappointed individuals have
 been given an enlargement of exclusive
 right to fish does not rectify the situation
 in the slightest degree as this enlarged right
 only to curtali the right of
 other individual who desires to fish, but is
 net permitted to do
 Obviously the number of permits to pre-
 pare fish must be limited by the supply of
 fish and when the amount of the supply is
 exhausted by permits there be
 for new and additional operations. If
 fisherman should wish prepare fish on his
 own account renquishment from those
 who have permits would be required and it
 is doubtful if the Bureau of Fisheries could
 compel this relinQushmen Certainly no [ packer of salmon would be disposed to give
 up any privilege he had received
 The average fisherman is always am-
 biicus to at some time operate eaning
 establishment for himself, but under the
 reservation system it will be impossible for him to do so It is quite evident that
 abnormal run of salmon will be required in
 order that the pack limitations fixed by the
 Bureau may be reached and therefore the
 supply must be greatly increased before any
 independent packer can enter the field It is
 not at all probable that any such increase
 will be seen in Alaska salmon waters but
 on the contrary il is probable that with pack
 limits In excess of the pack of past a lurlher depleuon Will take place. It must be expected that every cannry will strive
 to pack it's limit and thus intensive fishing
 where the fish are concentrated in greatest
 number must tend to reduce the general
 supply.
 The Delegate is simply confusing the people O the question. To those who understand anythin M all about the conditions and circumstances hi speech answers itself He complains that under th reservation system there would not be any chanc for ambitious fishermen to become canners of sal non He says the lmitations-and thus he admit thats the pack has been restrcted-t would reauir an abnormal run of salmon before there would room for an indpendent packer to enter the nelt Is it not obvious. therefore, that if there were n limitation of the packs if the canners were permitte to pack all they could, that there would be les chance for room for independent packer?
 He says the pack limit in the reservation distric this season has been fixed higher than that of las season Last season the pack limit was placed a from 50 to SO per cent. of escapacity of the can neries Notwithstanding that permits were issue this year for new cannercsfor all that were appie for. as far kncw-lit was decided that parts q the district would permit of intensive fshin this year than was practiced last year
 There arc lots of farm workers in the Missssinr Valley and the valleys of the Pacific Coast who woul ike an opportunity to take up homesteads and be come farmers in their own right in the country fl Which they live But that is impossible becaus the lands the heritage Of all the people in the be ginning. have all been appropriated by the Fedora GoyeTnment. If the canperies on the ground arr picking all the fsh that the supply will allow ther,