A BILL FOR THE PROTECTION, REGULATION, AND CON- WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1916 Reclass 7-29-40 ALASKA FISHERIES. COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES, Washington, D. C., Thursday, May 25, 1916. The committee met at 10.30 o'clock a. m., Hon. Joshua W. Alexander (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen, we have under consideration this morning H. R. 9528, which reads as follows: A BILL For the protection, regulation, and conservation of the fisheries of Alaska. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be unlawful to engage in the business of taking, catching, fishing for, canning, curing, preserving, packing, or otherwise dealing at wholesale in food fish or shellfish, or other aquatic animals or the products thereof, in the Territory of Alaska or in any of the waters of Alaska over which the United States has jurisdiction, without first obtaining license therefor as herein provided. Every person, except employees, engaging in the business of taking, catching, fishing for, canning, curing, preserving, packing, or otherwise dealing at wholesale in food fish or shellfish, or other aquatic animals or the products thereof, or manufacturing fisheries products, in the Territory of Alaska or in any of the waters of Alaska over which the United States has jurisdiction, shall before commencing operations apply for a license to the Secretary of Commerce, who shall issue the same, and every such person shall, in lieu of all other Federal or Territorial license fees and taxes therefor and thereon, pay annual license fees and taxes on said business and output as in this act provided. SEC. 2. LICENSE FEES AND TAXES.-That a license fee of $5 shall be imposed and paid for each canning, mild-curing, salting, smoking, fish freezing, whaling, or other wholesale fish-dealing establishment; for each fish fertilizer and fish oil works, and for each other fishery establishment, except retail markets, not herein specified. For each pound net, $50; for each fish wheel, $25 (except small wheels in the Yukon and Copper rivers of the type heretofore used, $2); for each purse seine, $25; for each beam trawl or other trawl net, $10; for each gill net boat and equipment, $2; for each stake net, $2; for each set net, $1; for each drag, haul, or beach seine five hundred feet or less in length, $3, and for each additional five hundred feet in length or fraction thereof, $5; for any other kind of fishing applicance or method used in taking aquatic products, $1. Every licensee employing any fishing appliance or method hereinbefore mentioned shall, by December thirty-first of each year, in addition to the license fees by this act provided, pay for the raw aquatic products taken by him as follows: For king, chinook, or spring salmon, and for steelhead trout or salmon at the rate of $2 per thousand fish; for red, sockeye, or blueback salmon at the rate of $1 per thousand fish; for coho or silver salmon and for chum or keta salmon, at the rate of 75 cents per thousand fish; and for humpback or pink salmon, at the rate of 50 cents per thousand fish. Every person engaged in canning salmon or other food fish or shellfish shall, by December thirty-first of each year, pay a tax on the output as follows, according to species: King, chinook, or spring; red, sockeye, or blueback; coho or medium red; and steelhead trout or salmon, 4 cents per case; chum or keta, and humpback or pink, 3 cents per case; all other food fish and shellfish, 3 cents per case. Every person engaged in curing or preserving fish, or manufacturing fishery products, except by canning, shall, by December thirty-first of each year, pay a tax thereon as follows: Mild-cured salmon, 75 cents per tierce; pickled salmon, 15 cents per barrel; salt salmon in bulk, 5 cents per hundred pounds; salmon and trout frozen, 3 301891 |