Developments in the fisheries of other countries 

 continue to affect the fishing industry of this country. 

 These conditions are carefully analyzed by Bureau 

 specialists and reports on trends and developments in 

 foreign fisheries are prepared for the information of 

 the Congress, other Government agencies, the trade, 

 and the general public. 



An agreement recently signed by the Department 

 of the Interior with the Department of State will result 

 in better coverage of the foreign fisheries by expanding 

 the foreign reporting program. Under this agreement, 

 each Department assumes certain responsibilities in 

 the selection, assignment, and determination of the 

 duties of fishery attaches to be stationed in American 

 embassies in countries with important fisheries. 

 Attache's are now stationed in Mexico City and Tokyo. 

 This program, when fully implemented, will achieve 

 worldwide coverage of foreign fishery developments 

 of importance to the United States industry. 



The Bureau is also responsible for the administra- 

 tion of the Fishery Cooperative Marketing Act of 

 June 2 5, 1934, and must maintain contacts with fishery 

 cooperatives to obtain detailed information about their 

 activities and to advise them. 



Commercial Fisheries of Alaska 



The old U. S. Fish Commission, and the succeeding 

 Bureau of Fisheries, had no administrative control of 

 the fisheries in any part of the country because these 

 functions were vested in the States within whose waters 

 the fisheries were located. By order of the Secretary 

 of Commerce on February 15, 1905, for the first time 

 the Bureau of Fisheries was charged with the admin- 

 istration of the salmon fisheries of the Territory of 

 Alaska. Subsequently, by law, this jurisdiction was 

 extended to include all of the fisheries of Alaska. 

 Since then, and until January 1, I960, when the new 

 State assumed this responsibility, the Fish and Wildlife 

 Service managed the fisheries of Alaska. 



The management of the fisheries of Alaska along 

 10,000 miles of coastline, was a threefold task. It 

 included research on the fisheries, developing appro- 

 priate regulations annually for taking the fish, and 

 enforcing these regulations and other fishery laws. 



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