The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-24
Death of John N. Cobb.
Pacific Fisherman)

In the passing of John N. Cobb, Dean of the College of Fisheries University of Washington, the fishing industry of the Pacific hos lost firm friend and an indefatigable worker for it's advancement Dean Cobb died January 13 at La Joa, Calif, after an illness of many months After spending most of the summer in a Seattle hospital, he undertook to resume his work at the University for the fall term, but soon stricken with heart attack and went south in hope of recovery.
 Dean Cobb 61 years of age, a native of New Jersey. During his early life he engaged in newspaper work his activity in the fisheries dating from 1895 when he entered the Bureau of Fisheries ducted many fishery investigations along the Atlantic and on the Great Lakes covering in particular the Holsters of Maine, the Sponges of Florida and the shad of North Carolina In 1901 and 1904 he made the first investigations of the Hawaiian fisheries and in 1904 appointed Assistant Agent in charge of the Alaska fisheries. His annual reports while in this office did much to stimulate the subse- quent remarkable development of the industry in the Territory.
 Leaving Government service in 1912 Dean Cobb was for four years editor of Pacific Fisherman be- coming Assistant General Superintendent of the AL aska Packers Assoation in 1917. For a long time also he was associated with the Union Fish Com pany in Alaska codfSh operations
 On the establishment of the College of Fish cries at the University of Washington in 1919 as the only institution of the kind in the world except in Japan, he was chosen as the man most eminently fitted to organize and direct its activities and later
 
 constructiveness of his work here have been widely recognized; but only those who studied under him 1uly realize the close personal attention he gave to the welfare of his students This was not limited to academic accomplishments but included much help ful guidance in the selection of their life work and extended to an active interest in their subsequent advancement The results are attested in the fact that many graduates of the College of Fisheries now occupy positions of prominence in Government serv- ices and commercial fisheries throughout the world
 Propaply only his intimate friends have fully appreciated the concentration and unremitting ef- fort that marked his career the earnestness with which his life was devoted to the development of the fisheries along sound and permanent lines He was an authority of worldwide standing on fish cry matters and it is doubtful whether any other man ot his time had thorough and compre- nehslVe Knowledge of all aspects of the fisheries anu ilSnlng industries as possessed by Dean Copo. His untiring energy and forceful yet kind " personality qualified him for leadership in many actVlties which have been of widespread benefit Tn relation to the operating well as the educa- uonal field he truly occupied unique position
 Among his recent activities an investga- ton of means of carrying fish over Instructions Tn spawning streams, and membership of the ad-
 sory committee of the International Fisheries Com mission studying the North Pacific halibut fish cries.
 Dean Cobb was author of many valuable tech meal articles and reports and a number of books of widely recognized importance among which his Paclflc Cod Fisheries" Pacific Salmon Fisheries and "The Canning of Fishery Products" may be mentioned as the most comprehensive and authori- tative works on those subjects His leisure during the last year of his life, upon his final ill., ness, was spent in revision of Pacific Salmon Flsherles the new edition of which, soon to be published by the Government will stand as the final work of most active and useful career.