Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion. The act is explicit, reserving only the “body of lands known as Annette Islands.” The water surrounding an island forms no. part of it. Grants of land on navigable water go only to ordinary high tide. Public navigable waters are not part of the public domain.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion. The act is explicit, reserving only the “body of lands known as Annette Islands.” The water surrounding an island forms no. part of it. Grants of land on navigable water go only to ordinary high tide. Public navigable waters are not part of the public domain. In a Territory, the United States holds them, not as land-owner, but as sovereign, in trust for all the people, who have common rights therein of fishery and navigation. And this right of fishery is a property right. Mc-Cready v. Virginia,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devantee
the court.
This is a suit, by the United States to enjoin the Alaska Pacific Fisheries, a California corporation, from maintaining, and to compel it to remove, an extensive fish-trap erected by it in navigable waters at the Annette Inlands in Alaska. The objections urged against the'.trap are, first, that it is within a reservation lawfully established for the use of the Metlakahtla and other Indians, and, second, that it is an unauthorized obstruction to the navigable capacity.of waters of the United States. A decree was entered granting the relief sought, and this-was affirmed by the Circuit…
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