The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-17

Just when JnlS VIII DC put l am aware that they have a right to be heard on matters so directly affecting them and it is my desire to give them that opportunity just as soon as 1t can be done" he said
 Other Notifications Made
 Coincident with his arrival here
 Commissioner Bell made known 1.-two additional modifications in the Regulations, designed almost who'll 1y to give relief to local fisher Inen.s One of these is toaopen Lynn Canal at once up as far as a line drawn across that water from
 Green Point across the south end lof Pyramid Island The area thus iopened has in the past been open Ionly to Fall fishing 1t is available for drift gill nets only. sar2 The second change is more far Ireaching. Effective at once, the Commissioner has rescinded the lregaslation closing commercial sal Ifaon trolling on August 25 to Sep Itenaber 5.:y;TIhis is done to benefit local trollers s'asi st stFsfs! !sfaea Iaflas Latest of Several sr'r
 This is the latest of several modi- ifieations made by the Commission Ter during the past few weeks. All rI Iof them are designed to relieve
 conditions that handicapped local
 residents engaged in the fishing
 industry. te tx
 Included in the changes was the
 opening Of large seining grounds
 in the Kodiak -Afognak district; an order prohibiting the use of float ing fish traps in the Kodiak region; opening waters around Shumagin Islands to gill net fishing; permit ting the use of short hook web- ping on anchored beach seines and gill nets on the Alaska Peninsula, and other minor changes.
 1 nod May Have Others
 While he has made no other modifications, from the trend of his questions and talk regarding the fisheries as whole, and in Southeast Alaska, he evidently has other changes under consideration that may be made in the near fu- tire. cs1 nsisa sa4 SIS Fc .e I One thing is sure to be done. The entire patrol system. built up in the past several years, is going 1 to get thorough shaking up. That doesn't mean just change in pere sonnel. ii5 The method of patrol seems to him to be cumbersome and altogether too inefficient. Upon this phase of the activities he was emphatic The entire patrol sys- tenn is to be .reorganized," he as serted at4ssass sef oAa tssa : | No Trap Increase
 The Commissioner has given a lot of serious study to the gear question. He isn't saying anything about this subject just now. 2. It seems almost a foregone con- clusion from his reaction to- local sentiment that fish traps will not 4 increase under his regime. If there is any change made, there will be fewer instead of more traps.
 Not that he has said so. Far from it. He's just listening now and saying as little as possible. But he iss showing a deep interest in how much seine fish are now be- ing used by the packers, how many d seiners are actually able to sell \ their fish and how many of them
 are able to earn a living out Of their work. He is studying the rel-
 ative effect of regulations upon traps and upon other gear. If he
 has reached any conclusion, he |hasn't made it public That prob- Iably means he is still debating his down mind what is the proper pol | icy under all existing. circum- N stances e~ ss ss hs- | e No More Hatcheries
 When he does make up his mind, | he acts immediately. This is evil jCienced by the speed with which he. ! moved to suspend hatchery opera tions. There will be no more
 hatchery operations by the Bureau ! of Fisheries in Alaska He has l ordered the plants at Afognak and Yes Bay closed down, and thereby he will save $5o,000 year. to the
 Govefnrneflts q sse eis .l In addition to. the two Alaska
 plants closed, seven others were 1 ordered closed ihN the States-two eaoh in Maine and Vermont, and one each in Massachusetts, Ohio
 and Colorado. All were commercial hatcheries. ~
 I It is his conviction that it is a waste of public money and a
 subsidization of industry to under
 take to artificielly propagate for
 commercial purposes. "fn other
 words, the Government has no
 business to plant and cultivate a ,| crop, whether it is grain, cotton ? Or fish, for the private operator to i. come along and reap declared .,l Commissioner Bell.
 fl V Stop It Now
 . ESQ, we are going to put a stop 2 to that practice right now,v he
 added. There are other ways to
 insure a steady supply of fish. If