26 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



BRISTOL BAY DISTRICT 



The bureau's activities in the Bristol Bay district were continued 

 along the same general lines as in previous years. ^Vgent Dennis 

 Winn again organized the work and supervised it throughout the 

 season, assisted by Wardens Eric D. Fenno and Fred R. Lucas. In 

 addition, 36 temporary employees made up the field crew at Bristol 

 Bay in 1931. Of these, 29 were employed in Seattle and vicinity, 

 3 had been on duty in the district throughout the previous winter, 

 and 4 were employed locally. 



Twenty-six of the Bristol Bay force sailed from Seattle on vessels 

 of the bureau, as follows: 4 on the Eider, which left on April 23; 15 

 on the Crane; and 7, including Warden Lucas, on the Scoter, both of 

 which sailed north on April 28. The two last-named vessels reached 

 False Pass on May 10, where they were storm bound for two days. 

 On May 12 they took aboard the 4 men who had come north on the 

 Eider and continued the journe}^ to Naknek, arriving there on May 

 15. Two emploj^ees were transported to Bristol Bay on a vessel 

 belonging to Libby, McNeill & Libby which sailed from Seattle on 

 May 13; 1, with Agent Dennis Winn, sailed from Portland on May 

 15 on a vessel of the Pacific American Fisheries; and 1 left Seattle 

 June 1 on a commercial freighter. 



Part of the season's supplies was carried on the bureau's vessels; 

 but the heavier shipments, including approximately 125,000 feet of 

 lumber, were sent north on cannery freighters. 



At the end of the season 7 men returned to Seattle on the Victoria, 

 leaving Bristol Bay the latter part of July; 6 left on the Scoter, and 

 17 on the Crane, sailing on August 28. Those on the Scoter trans- 

 ferred to a commercial steamer at Ketcliikan, as the Scoter was 

 assigned to patrol in southeastern Alaska during the fall season. 

 The Crane transported all of its passengers to Seattle except one who 

 left at Seward and one at Wrangell. 



Agent Dennis Winn left Naknek on August 6, crossing the portage 

 to Iliamna Bay, where he boarded the Teal for passage to Seward, 

 whence he traveled by airplane to Cordova. He returned to the 

 Bristol Bay district later to make an aerial survey of the spawning 

 grounds. 



Warden Lucas, who fell and fractured his left shoulder blade on 

 August 25, was transported by airplane to the Government hospital 

 at Anchorage, where he remained until September 18, on which date 

 he left for Seward, sailing thence for southeastern Alaska on the S. S. 

 Yukon. 



Warden Fenno again remained in the Nushagak district over winter 

 to supervise the destruction of trout and the payment of Territorial 

 bounties therefor. William E. SulKvan and C. M. Hatton were 

 assigned to similar work at Becharof Lake and Iliamna Lake, respec- 

 tively, and Alf. Christensen was stationed as winter watchman of the 

 bureau's property at the marine ways at Naknek. 



Mr. Lucas's report on operations during the season is as follows: 



GENERAL REPORT OF SEASON'S OPERATIONS 



Before the arrival of the crew from the States, Warden Fenno and the winter 

 watchman at the marine ways had painted nearl.y all of the bureau's boats and 

 scows. Most of the field crew arrived on Alay 15 on the Crane and Scoter, and 



