ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1931 6 



VISIT OF THE COMMISSIONER OP FISHERIES TO ALASKA 



The Commissioner of Fisheries sailed from Seattle aboard the 

 Penguin on June 28 for the annual inspection of the fisheries of 

 Alaska. Brief stops were made in southeastern Alaska, and on July 

 4 the Penguin departed from Juneau for Bristol Bay, via False Pass. 

 A trip was made also to the Pribilof Islands, where sealing operations 

 were observed. On the return trip the Penguin called at Kodiak, 

 where Commissioner O'Malley boarded a commercial steamer on 

 July 24 for the return trip to Juneau. The greater part of August 

 was devoted to a study of fishery conditions in southeastern Alaska. 



Commissioner O'Malley was accompanied on his inspection trip 

 by Senator Frederic C. Walcott, chairman of the Senate Committee 

 on Wild Life Resources, the secretary of this committee, and others 

 interested in the conservation of the fishery resources of the Territory. 



Following his visit to Alaska the commissioner spent several days 

 in the Pacific Coast States in connection with important fishery 

 matters and returned to Washington on September 11. 



EXECUTIVE ORDER RESTORING CERTAIN LANDS FROM ALASKA 

 SALMON HATCHERY RESERVATION 



Under date of June 8, 1931, an Executive order was issued restor- 

 ing to public entry a small tract of land not needed in connection 

 with the Yes Bay fish-cultural reservation. The text of the order is 

 as follows : 



It is hereby ordered that Executive order of February 1, 1906, reserving certain 

 lands on Yes Lake in the Cleveland Peninsula in southeastern Alaska as a site for 

 a salmon hatchery be, and the same is hereby, revoked as to the tract of land now- 

 identified as United States Survey No. 1981, comprising 6.33 acres. 



FISHERY INDUSTRIES 



As in corresponding reports for previous years, the Territory of 

 Alaska is here considered in the three coastal geographic sections 

 generally recognized, as follows: (1) Southeast Alaska — embracing 

 all that narrow strip of mainland and the numerous adjacent islands 

 from Portland Canal northwestward to and including Yakutat Bay; 

 (2) central Alaska — the region on the Pacific from Yakutat Bay 

 w^estward, including Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet, and the south- 

 ern coast of Alaska Peninsula, to Unimak Pass; and (3) western 

 Alaska — the north shore of the Alaska Peninsula, including the 

 Aleutian Islands westward from Unimak Pass, Bristol Bay, and the 

 Kuskokwim and Yukon Rivers. These divisions are solely for 

 statistical purposes and do not coincide with areas established in 

 departmental regulations. 



Detailed reports and statistical tables dealing with the various 

 fishery industries are presented herewith, and there are also given 

 the important features of certain subjects that were the objects of 

 special investigation or inquiry. 



