The Alaskan., 1928-11-23
AS TO HERRING

at the herring question. The idea pr9- ais t.iat legislation that would put the reduction plants out of busi ness, would at the same time, usher 'n somthing of a financial crisis Thern is, also, feeling that with so much capital invested it would be impossible, if rot illegal, to do anything to bar them, let alone close them altogether
 AS to the first--the possibility of money tightness--the territory would hardly notice the closing Oi every one If the fertilizer manu- fac1uiing concerns at one and the SantC time Their Investments, out side of the shells of buildings, are practically all on the outside. Their payroll is to outsiders, mostly. Near ly Ill of t',e herring fleet is regis tered in Washington Their provis- io,.s come direct from the States. They buy little here and spend little. They are takers. not givers.
 MT. C!at Floe has an article in the Pacific Fisherman for November From the 1rticle one is led to believe thct the Cn!y way we can do any thug with the herring is to spend a whole lot of time studing them. H. C!aims that so little is known of the 1sh and it's habits that it would Dc unjust to stop killing them now. Tho iittle Hat is really good ill the article is competelv pushed in the shade by this astounding statement.
 As to the possibility and the legal ltv of closing the destroyers of food fish it should be born in mind that the herring of Alaska--as we'll as the other fish belong to the territory Of AIaska We have that to go on. Therefore. If they belong to us--the peoLie an1 the territory of Alaska we come pretty near having some th4ng to s;.v as to how they shall be killed or whether they shall be kill cd at all The makers of herring fertilizer cont belong to the terri tory of Alaska. They are not resi- dents of any part of Alaska. They live in tae States, do business ill the States and vote in the States.
 They haven't asked us anything about our herring. But they did see that there were herring here--lots of 'em some lime ago--so they came, or hired r.cn to come, put up rough building aud began slaughtering So effective'y have they killed that there used 10 be uncountable mil lions. At this time weamight. begin to worry some at the shortage even though every dead herring had been prepared for human food, but when we open oEl eyes to the fact that the great bulk Gt the fish captured were turned into paint oil and garden manure, we certainly have a real something to worry over.
 Should me (and we must) put these food 1estroyers out of com mission, we aren't travelling any un- Ira ..1ed ground Such things have beer. done before. Oregon has junk ed t1e fish wheel It didn't matter who owned them They were found 70 re killing device that threatened the salmon industry. The courts hage upheld the Oregon law How ever, in broader aspect, we'll take up what has been done in Cali fornia since that not only strikes effectively at the taking of food fish fer commercial purposes, but at the catching oe them fer fertilizer.
 In a reprint from the California Fish and Game, by B. D. Marx Greene, Executive officer and Attorn- ey. California. Fish and Game Com mission, we quote sections that bear