UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
Harold L. Ickes, Secretary 
BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Charles E. Jackson, Acting Commissioner 
Report of the Acting Commissioner of the Bureau of Fisheries, 1940, reprinted from the Annual Report 
of the Secretary of the Interior, 1940, pp. 291-329] 

CONTENTS 
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Summaryaeen eee eae one eas Jeb ee 292 | Division of Fishery Industries._------.---.____- 311 
IntermationalirclavionSs 92-2 22) ae ee eee 293 Fishery Market News Service_-_.-------_--_-- 311 
HalibutunwesticallonS=.— ese ae ae 293 Statistical investigations____------------------ 312 
The International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Sechionalisurveys- .-t222..saeecn=- eee ene 313 
@ommission te ee ee aes ee 205 deagdings at certain important United States 
: F A DOntS Hse ee ae 313 
Copperadon with) Federal, Stale.) end /oWe es | Bled and/alewite fichicees! Smee eee 313 
c t ti DES Hivitios. 7 999 Canned fishery products and byproducts_-__ 314 
OAS VOD OS BONE CS See ara aS : Cold-storage holdings of fish___________.___- 314 
Japanese activities in Bering Sea___------------ 300 Sponge market, Tarpon Springs, Fla______- 314 
Alaska Fisheries Service_ ---------------------- 301 Technological investigations._.._________ .___- 314 
Administration of fishery laws and reg- Preservation of fishery products for food____ 315 
WI EYiSIS. eee ee 301 Manufacture of fishery byproducts___._____ 315 
Products of the fisheries__-_----_-----------+- 303 Nutritive value of aquatie products ____ ._ 315 
Alaska Fur-Seal Service- -------------------- . 303] Economic and marketing investigations_ ____- 314 
Goneralactivities: "29" =-— === 2-2 === 303 | Biological fishery investigations.__.____________ 317 
Seal herd___-- ee 304] North Atlantic fishery investigations ________ 317 
Take of sealskims_-_-----------.------------ 304} Middle and South Atlantic fishery investi- 
Salctofisealskins=....- 5-2 === _- eee 305 Pations). 2 ee a ee ee ee 319 
HOXCSSaeeeee = =— Bes noteencesccsccsns=ot -. 305 Long Island cooperative investigation_______- 320 
Fur-seal skins taken by natives__----------- 305 GHrimiplinvesticltions =. mes ae see eee een 370: 
ur-sealup ato) a2 e  e 306} North Pacific and Alaska fishery investiga- 
Protection of sea otters, walruses, and sea GIOTS == tee ee IE a eee 321 
ign) ee = ee eee 306] Pacific pilchard investigations ______________- 322 
Propagation and distribution of food and game Great Lakes fishery investigations__---------- 324 
fishes==22 Bese Se ae a ee 306 Shellfishhinvestigationss = as. sssean=s= eee 325 
Propagation of commercial species_--_--------- 307 Sponge euiheeStigablons eee sae eee 326 
iPacific’salmon: 5.2; soe ae ne eee 307 Aquicultural investigations __-.--.----------- 326 
Anadromous species, Atlantic coast_-__------ 308 Water quality investigations -__.--.---------- 328 
Commercial species, interior waters__....-.- 369 Protection of fish runs from engineering 
Gamie’species -2.-. 2-2 eet ees 309 developments S. 22-2222 eae 329 
Upper Mississippi Wildlife and Fish Refuge_ 310 | Appropriations. ---._----~---------------------- 329 
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