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FEDERAL
VOLUME 2

REGISTER

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W ashington, Friday, February 12, 1937
PRESIDENT IDF THE UNITED STATES.
E xecutive O rder REVOCATION OF PARAGRAPH 9, SUBDIVISION HI, SCHEDULE A, CIVIL
SERVICE RULES

WHEREAS by Executive Order of November 18, 1905, the position of one examiner of tobacco in the Customs Service at the port of Chicago was exempted from the competitive classified service; and WHEREAS the Treasury Department exercised its pre rogative under section 3 of Civil Service Rule n by filling that position as competitive classified positions are filled, thus rendering the exemption unnecessary:
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Civil Service Act 22 Stat. 403, it is ordered that paragraph 9, Subdivision III, Schedule A
of the Civil Service Rules, excepting one position of tobacco examiner in the Customs Service at the port of Chicago from the competitive classified service, be, and it is hereby, revoked.
F ranklin D R oosevelt T he W hite H ouse ,
February 10, 1937.
No. 75501
F .R .D o c. 37-437; Filed, February 11,1937; 12:24 p .m .

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.
Bureau of Fisheries.
No. 251-23

A laska F ish ery R egulations F ebruary 8, 1937.

By virtue of the authority contained in the act of June 26, 1906 34 Stat. 478, 480, as amended by the act of June 6, 1924 43 Stat. 464, as amended by the act of June 18, 1926
44 Stat. 752, as amended by the act of April 16, 1934 48
Stat. 594, fishing areas are hereby set apart and regula tions governing fishing therein are made effective, as follows:
I. YUKON-KUSKOKWIM AREA

The Yukon-Kuskokwim area is hereby defined to include all territorial, coastal, and tributary waters of A la sk a from Cape Newenham northward to the parallel o f 66 degrees north latitude.
S almon fish e r y . 1. Commercial fishing for salmon is prohibited except within the following-described districts:
a Port Clarence district: Waters within a line ex tending from Cape Douglas to Cape York.
b Yukon district: All waters of the Yukon River and all waters along the coast between 62 degrees north lati tude and 63 degrees 15 minutes north latitude.
c Kuskokwim district: All waters of Kuskokwim River, and waters of Kuskokwim Bay, exclusive of Good-

news Bay, within a line extending from the east shore of Kuskokwim Bay at the parallel of 59 degrees north latitude to Cape Avinof. The mouth of the Kuskokwim River shall be considered as at a straight line extending from a marker erected for the purpose at Beacon Point to another marker at Popokamute.
2. Commercial fishing for salmon shall be conducted solely by drift gill nets and set nets: Provided, That this shall not apply a to the use of purse seines in Kuskokwim Bay, exclusive of Goodnews Bay, between 59 degrees north latitude and 59 degrees 40 minutes north latitude westward to Cape Avinof, and b to the use of fish wheels in the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers by native Indians and bona fide permanent white residents along those rivers for the capture of king salmon. The extension to any seine in the way of leads exceeding 25 fathoms in length is prohibited.
3. The total aggregate length of gill nets on any salmon fishing boat, or in use by such boat, shall not exceed 150
fathoms hung measure.
4. King-salmon gill nets shall have a mesh of at least 8 Ms inches stretched measure between knots, red-salm on gill nets of linen webbing shall have a mesh of at least 5V2
inches stretched measure between knots, and red-salmon gill nets of cotton webbing shall have a mesh of at least 5 V4 inches stretched measure between knots as measured when actually in use. No red-salmon gill net shall be over 28 meshes deep.
5. Commercial fishing for salmon in the Yukon district shall be conducted solely by king-salmon gill nets having mesh of at least 8 Y2 inches stretched measure between knots as measured when actually in use: Provided, That this shall not apply to the use of fish wheels in the Yukon River by native Indians and bona fide permanent white residents along the river for the capture of king salmon.
6. Commercial fishing for salmon is prohibited except in the period from 6 oclock antemeridian June 1 to 6 oclock postmeridian July 31, in each year: Provided, That such fishing is permitted in the Kuskokwim district until 6
oclock postmeridian August 15.
7. The combined take of king and red salmon for com mercial purposes shall not exceed 300,000 fish in any calen dar year: Provided, That the take of king salmon in the Yukon district shall not exceed 50,000 fish, of which not more than 25,000 may be taken inside the mouth of the Yukon River, in any calendar year: And provided further, That the combined take of red and king salmon in the Kuskokwim district shall not exceed 250,000 fish in any calendar year.
8. Each gill net in operation shall be marked by a cluster of floats or corks at the ends, and double floats or corks shall be attached to the cork line at 25-fathom intervals.
The clusters of floats or corks at the ends and the double floats or corks at the 25-fathom intervals shall be painted bright red. The clusters at the ends shall also be legibly and plainly marked with the initials of the operator.
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