TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE 



Since World War II there has been a renewed interest in the resources of 

 Northern regions . Surveys and inventories of our natural resources have been 

 inaugurated under the auspices of several agencies and governmental depart- 

 ments. However, m the case of Alaska, research on the fish fauna by our 

 government has almost all been concerned with commercial fishes as salmon, 

 halibut and cod. The U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Steamer ALBATROSS conducted 

 the last general ichthyological survey in the Bering Sea shortly after the turn of 

 the century. 



As a consequence, the results of a recent exploratory fisheries survey 

 in Bering and Chukchi Sea waters by the Soviet government are of general 

 interest. The following translated papers is based on expeditions carried out 

 in 1932 and 1933. This material was first published in a Russian journal in 

 1937 by Anatoly P. Andriashev. Although other portions of the results of 

 these expeditions have been translated into Western languages, to our know- 

 ledge this is the first translation of the ichthyological report. 



Insofar as possible the translation is a direct one from the Russian 

 language. However, obvious lapses in spelling and references were corrected. 



The costs of this translation were borne in part through funds provided by 

 a Contract between the Office of Naval Research and Stanford University -- 

 Contract N6onr25 136. 



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Andriashev, Anatoly P. 



1937. A contribution to the knowledge of the fishes from the Bering 

 and Chukchi Seas. Explorat. des mgrs de I'URSS. fasc . 25, 

 Inst. Hydro., Leningrad, pp. 292-355, figs. 1-27. Russian 

 English sunimarypp. 351-355. 



