The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-07
By VERN HAUGLAND AP Special Washington Service

Alaska's Bristol Bay fishing grounds to motor-age development next year
 Interior Secretary Chapman said .oday that starting in 1851 in the famed salmon area. and some less important ones. motive power vii be permitted in boats less than g. feet long,
 "Advisability of replacing the tra- ditional fleet of gill net sail boats with motor boats has been the sub ject of controversy for several years Chapman said.
 Tt has been contended. on the one hand, that the conservation Of the salmon runs would be threat ened by such a technological ad- vancement, and on the other hand that this obsolete method of trans portation is made efficient by the current practice of supplying a large number of auxiliary vessels LOT tOWllB pui poSco.
 However, the Fish and Wildlife Service now possesses sufficient en- forcement facilities and scientific knowledge to protect the runs against undue depletion despite the type of motive power utilized in the fishing boats"
 Chapman added that the one- year delay will give the operator who wishes to do so an equal chance O "motorize" his fishing boats. The change was one of number announced in the 1850 regulations governing Alaskas commercial fish cries.
 The new rules were based in part upon public hearings held at Seattle md in Alaska.
 Change in Seasons In three major areas fishing sea- ,ons were shortened. and ill two .hey were slightly liberalized. A uniform closure will apply to the entire Kodiak area from July l5 to July 31, with the limited ex- ception of certain recognized red salmon localities.
 Seasonal opening and closing dates in Kodiak otherwise remain he same as last year. Fishing in the Resurrection Bay irea will begin July l instead Of June l, as previously.
 The general fishing season in the Yakutat area will start July l. but king salmon fishing in Dry Bay nay begin June l. In SEE Alaska
 Seine and trap fishing in South- east Alaska will be from Aug. Is to Sept. 3, much the same as last year.
 Annual quotas of herring, stabi- lized for a three-year period and based largely on average produc- tivity in the past, will be inaugu- rated in the Kodiak and Resurrec- ton Bay Prince William Sound fisheries. This is new principle, replacing frequent quota adjust ments based on predictions devel- oped by analyses of catch data from preceding seasons.
 The Kodiak quota is 275.000 bar rels of herring and that of Resur- rection Bay-Prince William Sound l80, 900 barrels, for each of the years 1850. 1851 and 1852. The quota season was shortened in each area. It will end Sept. 30 al Kodiak, Aug. 10 at Resurrection Bay Prince William Sound. Herring Regulations Herring may be caught after those dates without regard to the quota limit because 'the fall runs are be- lieved distinct and not sufficiently in need of such protection" the an nouncement said.
 In Southeast Alaska the herring quotas will be adjusted annually based upon developments of the years immediately preceding the principle used in the past. Because of current natural scarcities of her ring the 1850 quota will remain al the comparatively low limit ol l50 GOO barrels.
 The new regulations remove the
 ban against use of pounds dm-
 pounding nets) on herring spawn
 ing grounds except in the fish ege
 island grounds near Craig.
 Closed Herring Area The area closed to herring fish, ing along the western shore of Ad-
 miralty Island was extended to in-
 clude the entire side of the islanc
 between Point Gardner and Point
 Retreat in order to protect smal
 populations of fish in two bays al
 the nothern end.
 Fishing boats and processing op-