Organization of the Service 



The Fish and Wildlife Service is now under the 

 supervision of the Commissioner of Fish and Wildlife. 

 The Commissioner, in turn, is subject to direction 

 from the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish 

 and Wildlife. 



The Office of the Commissioner includes his 

 immediate staff and the Offices of Information, Inter- 

 national Relations, and Program Review. 



The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, under a 

 Director, is responsible for matters relating primarily 

 to the commercial fisheries, whales, seals, and sea- 

 lions. It consists of the Office of the Director and the 

 four Divisions of Biological Research, Industrial 

 Research, Resource Development, and Administration. 



The Bureau's field activities, formerly under the 

 direct supervision of the Central Office in Washington, 

 have been decentralized. Regional headquarters are 

 as follows: 



Pacific Region, Seattle, Wash.; Gulf and South 

 Atlantic Region, St. Petersburg Beach, Fla.; North 

 Atlantic Region, Gloucester, Mass.; Great Lakes and 

 Central Region, Ann Arbor, Mich.; and the Alaska 

 Region at Juneau. In southern California an area 

 office has been established at Terminal Island to 

 supervise activities concerned with some of the 

 Nation's largest fisheries in that area. Another area 

 office comprising the former Pacific Oceanic Fishery 

 Investigations is located in Honolulu, Hawaii. In all, 

 the Bureau operates 177 biological laboratories and 

 field or experimental stations. 



Organization of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and 

 Wildlife includes the Office of the Director, and the 

 Divisions of Sport Fisheries, Technical Services, 

 Wildlife, and Administration. It operates 500 wildlife 

 refuges, management areas, fish hatcheries, experi- 

 ment stations and field stations; is responsible for 

 conservation and management of migratory waterfowl; 

 conducts research on the sport fisheries and on wild- 

 life; carries on specific fish and wildlife management 

 on Federal lands; and administers Federal assistance 

 and coordination programs for fishery and wildlife 

 conservation in the States. 



Regional offices of the Bureau, to which consider- 

 able authority formerly held in the Washington Office 



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