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on September 13. A further hearing on the Alaska fisheries was held 
by the committee at Seattle on September 14. 
At every meeting supplemental statements and briefs were invited, 
and these, together with much additional information of a factual 
nature, were made a part of the record of the hearings. 
A report of the investigation and recommendations of the committee 
with respect to various problems concerning the development and 
preservation of the Alaska fisheries was published as Report No. 2379 
under date of June 5, 1940. 
VISIT OF ACTING COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES AND OTHER 
OFFICIALS TO ALASKA 
Acting Commissioner of Fisheries Charles E. Jackson, accompanied 
by Doyle C. Tripp as clerical assistant and reporter, left Washington 
on August 9 and sailed from Seattle on August 16 by commercial 
steamer for Alaska to investigate fishery matters and conduct a num- 
ber of hearings with respect to the regulations. They disembarked 
at Ketchikan and continued the journey to Juneau aboard the Brant, 
returning later to Ketchikan to join the Congressional party on the 
Coast Guard cutter Ingham on August 22, for a cruise to points in 
southeast and central Alaska. 
Public notice was given through the press that the Bureau would 
conduct hearings at specified places at the close of the salmon fishing 
season in connection with the fishery regulations for 1940 and, in 
addition to oral testimony presented there, would accept. written 
evidence in the form of briefs at any time prior to December 1, 1939. 
These hearings, which were independent of those conducted by the 
Congressional committee, were held as follows: Anchorage, September 
2; Kodiak, September 4; Cordova, September 5; Sitka, September 7; 
Petersburg, September 9; Wrangell, September 10; Ketchikan, Sep- 
tember 11; and Juneau, September 16. After his return to Seattle 
on September 21, Mr. Jackson conducted hearings there also on 
September 25 and 26. 
Seton H. Thompson, Assistant Chief of the Division of Alaska 
Fisheries, who was detailed to Alaska, with headquarters at Juneau, 
to exercise general field supervision of the Division’s activities, par- 
ticipated in all the hearings conducted by the Bureau in the Territory. 
Mr. Thompson’s detail from Washington began on May 28 and ended 
on October 14. He sailed from Seattle on the Brant on June 17 for 
Juneau and returned to Seattle by commercial steamer on September 
29. 
During the 1939 season a comprehensive investigation of the Bureau’s 
work with respect to the fisheries, fur seals, and sea otters in Alaska, 
as well as a study of matters pertaining to the Bureau of Biological 
Survey, was made by Dr. Carl L. Hubbs, Curator of Fishes, University 
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on behalf of Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of 
the Interior. Dr. Hubbs left Washington fer the Pacific coast on 
June 17 and sailed from Seattle by commercial vessel on July 14. At 
Ketchikan he transferred to the Brant and proceeded to Juneau, 
where a schedule of his further itinerary was-arranged. This included 
a trip on July 8 by airplane to Fairbanks, thence a journey to Anchor- 
age via McKinley National Park, and on July 11 an airplane trip to 
Naknek. After several days in the Bristol Bay district, Dr. Hubbs 
