The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-10
OPERATIONS IN FISH RESERVES
 TO BE WATCHED
Bureau of Fisheries to Study Results Carefully-Pro-
 gram Is Outlined.

cannery operations in the. two Alaska fisheries reserves will be watched with the utmost care dur ing the present season by Dr.
 Charles H. Gilbert, of Stanford University, and William P Studdef. formerly of the University of Wash ington, for the Bureau of Fisheries, according to F. M Ball, Fisheries l Agent for Southeastern Alaska. They will observe and report in detail
 the effect of the reserve system on the industry and is results from
 a standpoint of preservation of the salmon supply.
 The Bureau of Fisheries has out lined an active season in every dis trict and in it's efforts to sec that fisheries regulations are observed has increased it's fleet of patrol yes- sells and will maintain | fairly , large force of stream guards, the , first of the guards to be put on June l.
 Changes in Personnel. Twenty guards will be put on in Southeastern Alaska at that time lsaid MT. Ball. After July l, when the allotment of funds for the next fiscal year becomes available, addi- tional guards will be employed
 bringing the total force in. this
 district to 30 or 35 men. .~
 Numerous changes in the person l nel of the Bureaus force of em- i ployes in this district have been made since last season. Wardens
 Fred II. Gray and James K. Neville have been dropped and their places filled by John T. White, of Juneau.
 mad Howard H. YHungerford. an old
 time operator nj the Territory, for merly in the mild curing business. i Four boats will operate in this
 district, the Widgeon, Capt. E. L. Hunter, the Auklet, Capt c. T.
 Tibbits, the Petrel, Capt. Iyer N.
 Stensland, and the Murre. Capt. Arthur McLain. These vessels are
 now on the seal patrol. The Bureau has five boats in Central and Vest ern Alaska, one in fhe Cordoya-ko- diak district, one at Chignfk, one at False Pass and two on the Boring Sea side of the peninsula.
 ]: All the work in the Southeastern : Alaska will be under Mr. Balls di. rection; that in the Central dis trict under Asst. Agent Shirley A Baker; Warden Charles Petry will have control at Chignik; Asst Agent Lemuel G. Wingard will have charge of the False Pass Distrcit and Agent Dennis T. Vim, who i: the Bureaus Chief Alaska represen. tative, will direct the work in tho Bristol Bay district.
 In connection with this work ii : Alaska this season, Dr. Gilbert anf MT. Studdert will make some inves tigations in the False Pass distric and at Port Moeller, tagging salmon : and have general supervision of tn, : count of salmon ascending spawning streams. A rack will be built il
 Nelson Lagoon at the mouth O Nelson River near Port Moellel
 where operations will be carried or , similar to those at Karluk River
 for the past two seasons.
 Quit on Yukon River. , It is expected that this season
 will see the withdrawal of tho
 Bureau from the Interior For sew
 eral years it has maintained two
 boats on the Yukon River under Asst. Agent c. T. Townseif1 with : headquarters at Fairbanks. As com.
 mercial fishing has been discon- tinued under Bureau orders on tho Yukon, the need for supervision has
 passed. MT. Townsend will make 8 final inspection of the. Yukon River this season and will probably be moved to the coast for the 1924 season.
 | Open Local Office Soon.
 MT. Ball, who leaves tomorrow on
 the Widgeon to return to the seal
 patroh expects to return before the end of this month. Local head quarters will be opened for the rest !. or the season. An office clerk, Miss Anna M. Muir, who has been teach
 ing In the ketchikan schools during
 the past year, will arrive here for lduty on June l.
 I The seal migration is almost out lof the district, according to MT.
 Ball. The main body of the herd
 is we'll past Baranof Island but
 numbers of stragglers are still pass
 ing. The Sitka Indians up to the
 present time have killed about 100
 time operator in the Territory, for
 hampered to any appreciable extent by unfayorable. weather.
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