Volume 50
Public Law 75–622
Making further provision for the fisheries of Alaska.
Approved August 14, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
Making further provision for the fisheries of Alaska.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 of
Alaska fisheries.
the Act approved June 6, 1924, entitled “An Act for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes” (43 Stat. 464), as amended, is further amended by inserting in said section at the end of the first proviso thereof another proviso to read as follows: “Provided
Bristol Bay.
Taking of salmon with stake net, etc., for commercial purposes, residence requirements.
further, That in the area embracing Bristol Bay and the arms and tributaries thereof, no person shall at any time fish for or take salmon with a stake net or set net, for commercial purposes, unless such person shall have theretofore continuously resided for the period of at least five years within a radius of thirty miles of the place where such net is staked or set:”.
Approved, August 14, 1937.