The Nome nugget., 1931-03-21
FIFTH MEETING OF CAME
 COMMISSION TERMINATED Game Commission AdjouIns-Is- sues Summary of Work Done In % Days.

After completing its fifth annual meeting, the Alaska Game Con- mission adjourned today following 22-day session pr. ". H. Chase, President, and Irving K. Reed, members of the Commission. left here on the Yukon for their re spective homes in Cordova and Fairbanks.
 The remaining Commissioners, W. k. Selfr:dee and Frank D. Will Hams left earlier in the week. the former for Ketchikan and the lat ter for Seattle.
 Faced Important Questions
 During it's meetings the Com mission was faced with several i'm portant problems, some of which had been discussed during previous annual meetings. but on which, oW- ing to lack of information, no ac- tion had been taken heretofore said d statement made public here today by II. w. Terhune. Executive Secretary, summarizins the work accomplished.
 Any changes in present regula- tlras recommended by the Commts- sion at the meeting just concluded will not be effective until July l, 1881. New game circulars announc- Dg the changes in regulations will be printed and distributed in time to be in the hands of interested persons by that date.
 Having received favorable re ports on game conditions through out the Territory. the regulations affecting seasons and bag limits on big game will remain in gen eral as they are at present.
 Fur Areas Re,iistricted
 For more than ten years" said the summary of the meeting, the open seasons for taking fur bear 4ng animals have been governed by the division of the Territory into three fur districts. The com mission has realized fer several years that these districts were in adequate to permit the setting as open seasons at a time when the fur was at its best but il has oeen unwilling to attempt re. vision. and create new fur dis trf'ts until it was in possession Of more authentic information.
 With the gathering of vas amount of information from all sections of the Territory by it wardens, and with suggestion. from many people conversant witl climatic conditions and the prime ness of furs in nearly every sec tio of Alaska. the Conm ission hal increased the number of fur dis tricts to eight
 Boundaries Are Outlined
 The new district num5er on, includes Southeastern Alaska as ia west as Cape Fairweather
 District number two embrace the drainages of the, coastal re zion from Cape Eairweather t, Prince William sound ana tha low CT Copper River Region, kena Peninsula. and portion Of tn Susitna River drainage to Cool Inlet from the west. down to tn base of the Alaska Peninsula.
 "District number three include most of the Alaska Peninsula, tn Kodiak-Afognak Island group, al of the islands along the south sid of the Alaska and the Aleutial Islands.
 District number four covers portion of the north side Of tn Alaska Peninsula, the lliamna an Lake Clark region and all tn drainage of the Nushagak Riv CT, including the Wood River lakes
 District number i've embrace the lower Kush okwirn and lowe Yukon Rivers, Nunivak and S Lawrence islands, Seward Penir sula, and the drainages of the Sc awik, Kobuk and Ncatak River'
 District number six includes tn Arctic coast region north of tn summit of Brooks Range from Cap Lisburne to the lnternations