Volume 69
Public Law 84–12
Relating to the regulation of nets in Alaska waters.
Approved March 16, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
Relating to the regulation of nets in Alaska waters.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the last sentence of section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act for the protection and regulation of the fisheries of Alaska”, approved June 26, 1906, as amended
(48 U. S. C., sec. 233), is hereby amended to read as follows: “It shall be unlawful to lay or set any seine or net of any kind within one hundred yards of any other seine, net, or other fishing appliance which is being or which has been laid or set in any of the waters of Alaska, or to drive or to construct any trap or any other fixed fishing appliance, except a set gill net, stake, gill net, or anchored gill net, within six hundred yards laterally or within one hundred yards endwise of any other trap or fixed fishing appliance.”
Approved March 16, 1955.