The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-07
BROWN BEAR
 BRINGS OFFICIAL
 GROUP INT0p0RI

Docked at Juneau today is the Fish and Wildlife Services largest patrol vessel, the Brown Bear, which arrived from Seattle this morning-with distinguished com pany aboard. With her first des- tination being the Pribilof Islands, the Brown Bear has been posted by Captain Dan Drotning to sail from here tonight.
 Heading the group aboard the
 Brown Bear is Milton c. James,
 Assistant Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service with charge oi
 the Fisheries Divison. MT. James plans to spend several weeks in the
 Territory. After comforting here to- day with officials of the F&WL Regional Office, he will go on with
 the Brown Bear to the Pribilofs.
 Then, commencing with the Bristol
 Bay season, he will follow the sal
 mon seasons back to Southeast Alaska. He plans to be back here for the peak of fishing activity in
 this region. MT. James stated that
 he wants to be on hand to give as much local control" as possible to the administration of fishing re-
 gulations.
 Distinguished guest aboard the Brown Bear is Dr. Ira Gabrielson, former National F&WL Director,
 now President and director of the
 Wildlife Management Institute. Dr.
 Gabrielson was accompanied as far
 as Juneau by Mrs Gabrielson who will remain here with their daugh- ter June while her husband goes
 on with the Brown Bear. After
 arriving at the Pribilofs, where supplies and personnel will be dis
 charged, the Brown Bear is to re- port to her pre-war Aleutian Is-
 lands patrol station. Dr. Gabriel son will remain aboard the vessel
 for survey of wildlife conditions
 on the Chain, after which he will
 go north as far as Kotzebue then
 work through the Interior on wild life survey for his Institute. Pribilof bound as a Brown Bear
 passenger is Dr. Victor Sheffer,
 F&WL biologist, who will conduct
 fur seal investigations there. Also aboard is a group of Foulke Fur 1 Company employees who oversee
 pelting operations for the Govern
 ment, on the Islands.
 Douglas Gray, Aleutian Wildlife
 Refuge Manager, will be aboard the Brown Bear through the entire season. He has been in Seattle for several weeks, seeing to the ves- sells refitting after her return from wartime service in the Navy. He
 also is ex-Navy, with the rank of
 Lieutenant Commander during the war. If
 Arriving here aboard the vessel
 was Jim Caldwell and his family. Caldwell, Fleet Clerk, will be on duty at the Regional Office here this summer. Also getting off here
 is Roy Lindsley, Fisheries Agent for the West Coast and Prince of
 Wales Island District of Southeast Alaska, bound for his summer post.
 
 Mir. James affirmed that local hearings on regulations will be re- Sumed in Alaska this fall, though he indicated that he will not be able to remain in the Territory long enough to conduct them per- sonally. Seton Thompson, Alaska Fisheries Chief, who has been here for several days and who will join
 James at Bristol Bay, will be in
 charge of this falls hearings at
 which fishermen and cannery op-
 orators will be given opportunity to express their views on needed
 regulation changes. The first hear ing has been tentatively scheduled
 for Kodiak, on September 10. Oth-
 CT hearings will follow the season
 closings in other areas.