CONTENTS. 



GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT. 



By Barton Warren Evermann. 



Page. 



Salmon fisheries 7 



Inspection 7 



Complaints and prosecutionn 8 



Pribilof Islands 9 



Personnel in charge 9 



Sale of fur-seal skins 10 



Blue foxes 10 



Introduction of reindeer 11 



Minor fur-bearing animals 13 



Field force 13 



Observance of law and regulations 13 



Improvement in quality of furs shipped 14 



Permits to take fur-bearing animals for breeding or other purposes 15 



Shipment of furs from Alaska 15 



Recommendations 16 



FISHERY INDUSTRIES. 



By Fred M. Chamberlain and Ward T. Bower. 



Afognak reservation 18 



Wood River investigation 1 21 



Streams closed to commercial fishing 2(i 



Marked salmon 29 



Hatcheries * 31 



Extent of operations 31 



Hatcheries as a conservation provision 33 



( ieneral statistics of Alaska fisheries for 1912 37 



Salmon industry 38 



Apparatus and catch 38 



Relation of gear to conservation of the fishery 40 



Tables for 1906 to 1912 42 



Troll fishing for salmon 45 



Canning 40 



( "onditions and events of the season 46 



List of companies and canneries iu operation 49 



Statistical tables 50 



Mild curing 52 



Pickling 53 



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