The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-08-27
WRANGELL MEN FLY
 I0 JUNEAU TO PROTEST
 CLOSURE FISHING SEASON

headed by A. t. Hfueger Of thv
 Farwe9t-Wraugen Co.,. q group of Hraugell men flew To Juneau last saturday via Alaska Island Airline plane 10 join other representatives from Ketchikan and Petersburg To protest the abrupt closing of Che fishing season just after it had opened and particularly the addi- uonal closing of the Wrangeu area Alter presenting their case 10 Al bert Day Director Of the Fish and Wildlife Service, that official ord cred a reopening of all areas uutu september 8.
 A meeting also was set for Sept. <, lu Juneau to again take up the matter of eAtenslons.
 Most oI the argument opposing the closure order Vas based on the economic aspect ot the situation l Running through the complaints l as an eYer-recurreuI theme was She charge that the short season Aug. l ust to September had been al greed upon by Che packers and tue l f&Wo at meetings prior to the is suanee of regulations governing 1 the ly1o operation with the idea that late season would help buliG up the depleted pink salmon run. and that il would allow for con centration oi mobile fishing gear. that the packers would operate 1 through this short season without interruptions. Operation was plan ned on that basis.
 After the first weeks operation as a result of a meeting between F&WS executives and operators 1 August II, lack of fish in streams was considered cause to order weeks closure, August It to 23, in the middle of the already short season for all Southeast Alaska. IL was the extension of this closure order to August 2 in the districl8 oI Southeast Alaska in which tt was thought that lack of fish m dicated need of further restriction that brought the operators to Jun eau to protest.
 Argument was made that ii the pinN salmon run was as had as the r& NS indicated, the operation should be closed for d year or 1ao years. Wlth notice Ill adsance SD that closure could be pIauuea Up= on.
 hose attending tue aJtu.u.y 7 con terence were:
 Jeaniee M. We.sh, ley strua .... mon Co.,; Id Wilkie, LlDpy Me= Nei1 X LiDoy; Oscar Larson NO Pacific Canning Co.,; James l.. Parks, No. Pacific Canning Com pany; A. NJ. Spaith. J. k. Heck man Co.,; w. k. BOardman, kctcI- ikan Chamber of Commerce; Willis R. Lebo, Jr., Ketchikan Salmon By-Products Co.,, A. W. BrindIe. Wards Cove Packing Co.,; R. E. Robertson, Lindenberger Fishing Company
 August Buschmann, Alaska Pa cific Salmon Co.,; W. C. Arnold, Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc; H. B. friele, Jr., Nakat Packing Cor poralion; w. H. Friele, Nakat Packing Corp; H. C. Heaton, LiD- by, McNelll X Libby; 5. C. Tar rant Pacific American Fisheries, Inc: Archie w. Shiels, Pacific American Fisheries, Inc; Guy V. Graham, Libby, McNeill & Libby. D. s. Davis, r. E. Harris & Co.
 o. Bergseth, New England Fish Co.,; C. D. Payne, Ketchikan Pack ing Co.,; F. J. Gunderson, Inde- pendent Salmon Canneries; Moine Mil CT, Douglas Canning Co.,; John Olofson, Sec.-Treas., United TrOl lers of Alaska; Chris Jennings, CIO representative, Alaksa; Nick Bez, Todd Packing Co.,, X C. R. P. A.
 Joe Petticrew Seiners Local, Wrangell; Peter c. Mccormack, Wrangell Cold Storage Co.,; Thor 5. Hofstad President, Wrangell Chamber of Commerce.; James Nol- an, merchant and member of Ter ritorial House of Representatives; A. R. Brueger, Farwes -Wrangell Co.,; Bob Jernberg, Attorney, Ket- chikan; Dean c. KaylOr, Kaylor- Dahl Fish Co.,, Petersburg; Chris Dahl, Kaylor-Dahl Fish Co.,; Eil- ert Holbeck, Speciality Processors, Petersburg; J. s. Culbertson, All aska Salmon Industry, Seattle:. Helen Monsen Empire Printing Co.,. Egle Buschmann, Nakat Pack ing Co.,; Lew Williams, Jr, Wran- gell Sentinel, Wrangell. Fish and Wildlife officials at the meeting were: Albert Day, Seton Thompson, George Kelez, Clarence Rhode, Frank Hynes and Clay Scudder.