[57 STAT. "Executive Officer: Executive officer, Alaska Game Commission. "Territory: Territory of Alaska. "Person: The plural or the singular, as the case demands, includ- ing individuals, associations, partnerships, and corporations, unless the context otherwise requires. "Indians: Natives of one-half or more Indian blood. "Eskimo: Natives of one-half or more Eskimo blood. "Take: Taking, pursuing, disturbing, hunting, capturing, trap- ping, or killing game animals, fur animals, game or nongame birds, or game fishes; attempting to take, pursue, disturb, hunt, capture, trap, or kill such animals, birds, or game fishes, or setting or using a net, trap, or other device for taking them, or collecting the nests or eggs of such birds, unless the context otherwise requires. Whenever the taking of animals, birds, or nests or eggs of birds, or game fishes is permitted, reference is had to taking by lawful means and in lawful manner. "Open season: The time during which animals, birds, or game fishes may lawfully be taken. Each period of time prescribed as an open season shall be construed to include the first and last days thereof. "Closed season: The time during which animals, birds, or game fishes may not be taken. "Transport: Shipping, transporting, carrying, importing, export- ing, or receiving or delivering for shipment, transportation, carriage, or export, unless the context otherwise requires. "Game animals: Deer, moose, caribou, elk, mountain sheep, moun- tain goat, bison, muskox, and the large brown, grizzly, and black bears, which shall be known also as big game, and such other animals as the Secretary has or shall declare, as hereinafter provided, to be game animals, to be known also as big game if so designated in the declaration, including those that have been or may hereafter be trans- planted, introduced, or reintroduced into the Territory, or any part thereof. "Fur animals: Beaver, muskrat, marmot, racoon, pika, hare or rabbit, squirrel, fisher, fox, lynx, marten or sable, mink, weasel or ermine, sea otter, land otter, wolverine, coyote, wolf, and polar bear, and such other animals as have been or may hereafter be transplanted, introduced, or reintroduced into the Territory, or any part thereof, and found and declared by the Secretary to be fur animals: Pro- Fur animal or game vided, That whenever the Secretary shall find that in any section Delaration. of Alaska any animal is predominantly taken as a game rather than as a fur animal, or is predominantly taken as a fur animal rather than as a game animal, he shall so declare and then and therefter, so long as such declaration remains in effect, such animal in the specified section of Alaska shall be considered to be a game animal or fur animal as the case may be, to the same extent as if it had been expressly included in the foregoing definitions of game and fur animals. "Game birds: Anatidae, commonly known as waterfowl, including ducks, geese, brant, and swans; Haematopodidae, Charadriidae, Scolopacidae, and Phalaropodidae, commonly known as shorebirds, including oyster-catchers, plover, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, and pha- laropes; Gruidae, commonly known as crane; and the several species of grouse and ptarmigan, and such other birds as have been or may hereafter be transplanted, introduced, or reintroduced into the Terri- tory, or any part thereof, and found and declared by the Secretary to be game birds. "Nongame birds: All wild birds except game birds. PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 183-JULY 1, 1943 302
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