I 1 7 18 U.S. Compress, Senate, Committee on commer 44 HEARING BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE ON S. 930 A BILL TO ASSURE CONSERVATION OF AND TO PERMIT 94737 JANUARY 20, 1944 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1944 Edward W. Allen, chairman, International Pacific Fisheries; secretary, International Fisheries Commission, Seattle, Wash.. 101 Ernest D. Clark, secretary and treasurer of the Association of Pacific 142 Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson, Director of Fish and Wildlife Service, Wash- Col. George R. Goethals, Corps of Engineers; Chief, Civil Works Di- F. J. Gunderson, fish-trap operator, Wrangell, Alaska.. Bjorne Halling, secretary, Congress of Industrial Organizations Mari- Herbert J. Slaughter, Assistant Solicitor, Department of the Interior, Hon. Mon C. Wallgren, a Senator from the State of Washington__. ALASKA FISHERY ACT THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1944 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, The subcommittee met at 2:30 p. m., pursuant to call, in the Commerce Committee hearing room, the Capitol, Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding. Present: Senators Bilbo (presiding), Wallgren, Burton, and Robert son. Present also: Anthony J. Dimond, Delegate for Alaska, House of Representatives. Senator BILBO (presiding). The committee will come to order. This is a meeting of the subcommittee to consider Senate bill 930, a bill to assure conservation of and to permit the fullest utilization of the fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes. The bill will be made a part of the record. (The bill, S. 930, is as follows:) [S. 930, 78th Cong., 1st sess.] A Bill To assure conservation of and to permit the fullest utilization of the fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall be known by the short title of the Alaska Fishery Act. POLICIES AND PURPOSES SEC. 2. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States that for the necessary protection and preservation of the fisheries of Alaska the jurisdiction of the United States extends, subject to all valid treaties, to all of the waters adjacent to the coast of Alaska, east of the international boundary in the Bering Sea between the United States and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, as defined in the treaty between Russia and the United States, concluded at Washington on March 30, 1867 (15 Stat. 539), whereby Alaska was ceded to the United States. This Act shall be applicable throughout all of such waters as are waters of Alaska or are less than two hundred fathoms in depth or which shall be declared by the President to be fishing waters. It is further declared to be the policy of the United States that to permit the fullest utilization of the fisheries of Alaska consistent with the maintenance of the continuity of such fisheries from year to year and the reasonable development thereof, subject only to the provisions of this Act, all fisheries in the waters of or adjacent to the Territory of Alaska, not included in the coastal waters of the Annette Island Fishery Reserve, shall be open to all citizens of the United States free of all exclusive or several rights under any claim of occupancy, aboriginal or otherwise. To these ends it is the purpose of this Act to assure conservation of the fisheries of Alaska and to permit the fullest utilization of such fisheries, to authorize such regulations as are essential to such conservation and utilization and to provide for the reasonable development of such fisheries.. 1 |