The Daily Alaska Empire

SITKA FISHERIES
HEARING REPORT
GIVEN BY RHODE

Clarence Rhode, Alaska Director
of the Fish and Wildlife Service, returned to Juneau yesterday after
being in attendance at the fisheries hearing in Sitka.

Rhode said that trollers were in
majority at the Sitka hearing and
they favored any plan of conservation
that would restore the pink
salmon run in their area and did
not protest the short season that
the proposed fisheries regulations
allows in the Sitka area.

The Sitka trollers were of the
opinion that the enforcement of
fisheries regulations were better
this season than last season, but
enforcement is still inadequate
when a violator can profit by
breaking the law.

The Sitka trollers took an opposite
view from the Juneau trollers
on maintaining a closed area on
king salmon between Icy Point and
Lituya Bay, near Cape Spencer.
The Sitka trollers supported the
stand that the area should be kept
closed and be used as a nursery
for king salmon, while the majority
of the trollers at the Juneau hearing
stated that the kings in the
closed area were large sized and
the area should be opened.