The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-10-16
FISH TALK IS MADE BY ALLEN
 IN BROADCAST
Alaska Canned Salmon and Entire Industry Review
 ed Tn Able Manner

ing and informative manner tn, salmon industry.
 In addition to dramatizing tn. salmon run, canning activity ant other interesting phases of the in dustry, Edward w. Allen, Seattle at torney, commissioner of the Inter national Halibut Commission, ant wcllknown to many Alaskans, gay, ! most interesting talk on the sal mon industry.
 Excerpts from MT. Aliens part O the program follow:
 "Ccneervation"
 Perhaps no word gets more abuse than conservation, but there is nc better word if you define it rightly Real conservation of natural re- source means to make the best anc greatest use Of it than you can with out unduly risking the future sup ply. In the case of fish. the best llse may be for sport fishing. it may bt for salting, it may be for canning it all depends upon the particular conditions. like sport fishing, but 1t happens that only Spring Salmon md Silver Salmon will take the hook These two varieties constitute less than 10 percent of the salmon pack As sportsman, therefore, I have 10 special interest in Sockeyes, Pinks or Chums which constitute more than 90 percent of the pack and just won't bite on a hook.
 Differing from most fish, the salmon spawns only once in it's life time. It is matched in a lake or stream, goes out to sea, and in a certain number of years returns to the stream of it's birth, spawns and dies. Take Pink Salmon for instance. which return to spawn and die in their second year. The fish matched in 1885 will return in 1897. It makes no difference, therefore, in 1897 how many Pink Salmon were matched in 1884 or 1936 So you can see it is necessary to have a proper number of salmon spawn every single year in order to be sure that you will have a supply in every future year. And there is no economy at all in allowing too many fish to get to the spawn ng grounds. The fish dies after, it 7pawns. It is utterly worthless at that time. To allow more fish to go up, spawn and die than is necessary pr reproduction is just Wasteful loss of that many fish. u
 Regulations
 Let me illustrate. The fishermen 1f British Columbia, Alaska and Washington fished the halibut banks 70 hard that it looked as if the sup ply would simply be wiped out. Fin ally the governments of Canada and the United States appointed joint commission with power to regulate fishing. What has happened? Under the regulations of this commission the supply has already been very substantially restored.
 "In Alaska the United States Bu- reau of Fisheries for many years has had power to regulate the salmon industry. All forms of gear, fish traps purse seines, gill nets, drag seines are allowed in such places as in the judgment of this department are be- lieved to be in the best public inter est, and in 1884 Alaska had the larg- est salmon pack in it's entire history
 Investment st~.
 The investment in salmon can- neries in Alaska and Washington is probably more than seventy-five mil lion dollars. And did you ever think of the difficulties which confront the men who are responsible for thi: investment. One of the well-knowr varieties of salmon is the Alaska Red. This fish is caught principal- ly in Bristol Bay, an arm of Boring Sea. Only handful of people livs in this vast area, but large ant permanent buildings filled with ex- pensive machinery must be erected and maintained the year around Men must be brought from thousand. of miles away for the short summer Under the regulations of the De. rartment of Commerce, the entire years fishing is actually limited tt 2l days. Think of 1.-the entire huge catch of Bristol Bay red salmon made in 2l days. and all of the5t fish canned in less than 24 hour. from the time they leave the water Yet this industry with all it's hazard is the backbone of Alaska's prosper ity, paying as it does about 30 per, cent of the entire taxes raised by tn, Territory.
 Problems
 Tn the State of Washington tn, industry is confronted with still oth CT problems: pollution of the water by mills and pulp plants, the killinl of small fish fry in irrigation ditch es, dams that are being built in rive after river preven~ng the fish iron reaching their spawning ground. The salmon of this state are entitle to your protection Right now ther