The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-11-09
WASHINGTON
 REQUESTING
 FISH TRAPS
Full Text of Measure Ap- proved by Voters Tues
 day Is Published

Fish traps are to be abolished by the State of Washington &C., cording to the decision of the vot- CTS of that state last Tuesday when Initiative Measure No. TT, was approved.
 The following is a complete text of the measure:
 Section 1. It shall be unlawful to fish for, catch, or take any species of salmon or salmon trout, trout, or steel head, except as here matter provided, with any appli- ance, or by any means whatever except with hook and line, com monly called angling or trolling,
 except as hereinafter provided, within the waters of the straits of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound, and waters connected herewith within the State of Washington described
 as lying to the Southerly, Easteriy and Southeasterly of line de- scribed as follows:
 Commencing at a concrete mon ument on Angeles Point in Clallam County, State of Washington, near the mouth of the Elwha River, on which is inscribed Angeles Point Monument" in latitude 48 degrees g minutes seconds North, longi- tude 123 degrees B minutes 01 sec ond West of Greenwich Meridian; thence running East on a line 8i degrees 30 minutes true from said point across the Flashlight and bell bouy off Partridge Point and thence continued to where said line intersects longitude l22 de- grees 40 minutes West; thence North on said line to where said line intersects the southerly shore of Sinclair Island at high tide; thence along the southerly shore of said island to the most easter ly point thereof; thence north 46 degrees East true to the line of high tide at Carter Point, the most southerly point on Lummi Island; thence northwesterly along the westerly shore line at high tide of said Lummi Island to where said shore line at high tide inter sects line of longitude 122 degrees 40 minutes West; thence North on said line to where sail line in- tersects the mainland at the line of high tide; including within said area the southehy portion of Hale Passage, Bellingham Bay. Pa dilla Bay, Fidalgo Bay, Guemes Channel, Skagit Bay, Similik Bay, Saratoga Passage, Holmes Harbor, Possession Sound, Admiralty Inlet, Hoods Canal, Puget Sound. and all inlets, passages, waters. waterways and tributaries thereof. (The above area is delineated on U. S. Coast and Geodetic Charts Numbers $500, 6382, 6380, 6450 and 6460, all being of the same scale)
 Section 2. No area heretofore or hereafter set apart or established as salmon preserve by authority of the State of Washington or any of it's departments or agencies, shall by any of the provisions of this Act, be opened to commercial fish ing.
 Section 3. Commercial trolling for salmon shall be permitted in the area described in Section hereof. during such seasons and under such regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the Department of Fisheries of the State of Washington. Provided, that it shall be unlawful to troll for salmon in said waters with more than six hooks to any one boat.
 Section Amy person, firm or corporation, who shall have held in either the years 1892 or 1883 a license from the Director of Li- censes of the State of Washing ton, for the operation within the waters of Puget Sound of any gill net, may be licensed for the opera tion of, and may operate, a gill net, for the purpose of catching salmon only, according to the fish ing regulations of the Fisheries Department of the State of Wash ington for gill nets for the year 1883, within the waters described in the first section of this Act for each succeeding year after the talk ing effect of this Act, by making application therefor to said Di- rector of Licenses, and paying to the Treasurer of the State of the sum of Seven and 50r00 Dollars ($7.5O for each year for which such license is issued; and no other person, firm, or cor poration, shall be licensed hereafter to operate, or hereafter shall oper- ate gill net in the waters so de- scribed in said first section. Said