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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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Ice conditions in Alaskan fishing areas are delaying Fish and Wildlife Service installations for salmon weirs and counting stations at sites like Karluk and Brooks Lake. Vessels have delivered materials to Bristol Bay, but work is stalled elsewhere due to frozen conditions.
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Iced-in conditions at important Alaskan fishing areas are causing headaches in wholesale lots around the Fish and Wildlife offices.
A closely calculated timetable was just going to enable weir and others installations to be made before the fish arrived-but now, so many stations are iced-in that, as Director Clarence J. Rhode says, the fish may come in under the ice before we can be ready."
Operating its own airlift, the F.W.S. has tried to land materials for installations at Karluk and Brooks Lake, for instance, but both are still frozen solid.
At Karluk, 100 tons of building material are required for the new permanent installation, and work was scheduled to have begun already at Brooks Lake. Both are red salmon stations for weirs for early reds, and for downstream migration counts.
The Copper River agent reports he has been unable to put up stream markers limiting fishing areas, due to the ice.
Materials will be at hand in the Bristol Bay area, however, as both the Crane and Brown Bear, F.W.S. vessels, have arrived there with tows intact.
They towed some 200 tons of construction materials, besides scows and pile drivers, for weir and counting installations in the Ugashik and Naknek Rivers.
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Alaskan Fishing Areas
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delays in weir installations, stream markers, and construction at karluk and brooks lake due to ice; materials delivered intact to bristol bay area via f.w.s. vessels.
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Iced-in conditions are preventing Fish and Wildlife Service from installing weirs and other equipment at key salmon fishing stations before fish arrival. Attempts to airlift materials to Karluk and Brooks Lake failed due to ice. Copper River stream markers not placed. Vessels Crane and Brown Bear delivered 200 tons of materials to Bristol Bay for Ugashik and Naknek Rivers.