Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — Cannery Man Cannot Comply. [ARTICLE]

Cannery Man Cannot Comply.

Alaska cannery men and aaltera are preparing a petition to the treasury department asking that the order issued last year, requiring every cannery and salting plant in the district to arrange for the propagation erf four times as many fish each year as are taken from the Alaskan waters, be rescinded. They say it is a matter of impossibility for them to comply with it, and enforcement of the order means bankruptcy for the entire interest. The season there is very short and steam plants would have to be put in to allow the eggs to hatch and keep the fish freezing until they were able to care for themselves.