The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-03-25
SUPERVISOR
 OUTLINES 194a PROGRAM

George B. Kelez, Fisheries Super visor, of the U. S. Fish and Wild life Service has. outlined a nine point Alaska program of manage ment and research projects
 One of the earliest, extending from early April into May, will be studies of downstream migrant pink salmon The little fish going out to sea will be briefly trapped for analysis of abundance, the fig ures to be used in predicting fu- ture returns. Test sections In northern and southern Southeast Alaska will be in charge respee- lively, of H. c. Scudder, Juneau and Fred Headlee, management agent at Ketchikan. Both will work with Mitchell Hanayan, of Seattle headquarters, who is in charge of pink salmon research.
 Construction work under the stream improvement program will start about May 1. Fishways will be put in at least four Southeast Alaska streams in the area between Etolin and Prince of Wales Islands.
 Work on the Brooks river fish way in the Naknek watershed will be airborne The stream improve ment program is under direction of Marcus Meyer.
 The third major project is the Bristol Bay weir operation, inyolv- ing a 1,1OO-foot span across the Ugashik River. A picket-like fence of one-inch aluminium tubing set F inches apart is interrupted by a series of gates where fish are counted
 This will be the first year that driven piling is used. Similar piling weirs will be installed in the Chig- nix River. The Ugashik and Chig- nix weir programs are directed by Bertel W. Johnson and Charles Petry, respectively.
 The fourth item invovles re- search into management problems on the important Bristol Bay red salmon run. This will be directed by George Eicher.
 Also on red salmon-the fertil- ity relationships in fresh water red salmon-will be the work at Karluk in charge of Richard Shu- man.
 Important herring studies will be made in Southeast Alaska Prince William Sound and Kodiak Island, under the general direction of Lawrence Kolloen, with Carl Filing in charge of the work to the Westward.
 The seventh project will be at the Little Port Walter Biological Station-long-range studies in sur veying pink salmon in fresh water Hanavan is in charge.
 Another program concerns shrimp including tagging in the rangell-Petersburg area; also general management in that area, Daniel Bates making the surrey, and similar studies in the Kodiak area by Roy Lindsley.
 Tests of streams for the effects of logging and pulp mill activities will be made in cooperation with the Forest Service Research Center of which Ray Taylor is forester in charge. This, too, will be directed by Hanavan, especially as to the effect on eggs and young fish in the streams. Kenneth Stanton will concentrate on the effects of pulp mill processes on resident fish such as kings and silvers, which live in freshwater streams a year be- fore going to salt water.
 Frank Hynes, management D1olo- gist in the Juneau headquarters, and Lawrence Koelling, will coordi- nate research findings in manage ment and research fields, respec- lively.
 Kelez returned to Seattle this week to meet Dr. Lionel c. Wal ford. chief of the FWS branch Of fishing biology, for discussion or the 1850 program.
 Kelez expects to be back in Jun eau in May, and will be in Alaska throughout the fishing season.