Chapter 415.
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CHAP. 415.— An act to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of AlaskaMarch 2, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Salmon fisheries. Alaska. Erection of dams, etc., in rivers unlawful. That the erection of dams, barricades, or other obstructions in any of the rivers of Alaska, with the purpose or result of preventing or impeding the ascent of salmon or other anadromous species to their spawning grounds, is hereby declared to be unlawful, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to establish such regulations and surveillance as may be necessary to insure that this prohibition is strictly enforced and to otherwise protect the salmon fisheries of Alaska: and every person who shall be found guilty of aPunishment. violation of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars for each day of the continuance of such obstruction.
Sec. 2. That the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is herebyInvestigation into habits. etc., of salmon. empowered and directed to institute an investigation into the habits, abundance, and distribution of the salmon of Alaska, as well as the present conditions and methods of the fisheries, with a view of recommending to Congress such additional legislation as may be necessary to prevent the impairment or exhaustion of these valuable fisheries, and placing them under regular and permanent conditions of production.
Sec. 3. That section nineteen hundred and fifty-six of the RevisedBehring Sea. Killing of fur-bearing animals in the dominion of the United States in prohibited. R. S., sec. 1956, p. 343. Proclamation. Statutes of the United States is hereby declared to include and apply to all the dominion of the United States in the waters of Behring Sea: and it shall be the duty of the President, at a timely season in each year, to issue his proclamation and cause the same to be published 1010 for one month in at least one newspaper if any such there be published at each United States port of entry on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against entering said waters for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section: and he shall also cause one or more vessels of the United States to diligently cruise said waters and Arrest of violators.arrest all persons, and seize all vessels found to be, or to have been, engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States therein.
Approved, March 2, 1889.