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in the important Bristol Bay watershed. Some payments of this 
kind have been made also in the Cook Inlet area and at Yakutat. 
Under these allotments a bounty of 2! cents each is paid for preda- 
tory trout taken by bona fide residents of Alaska in the above-men- 
tioned districts. The work is administered by the Bureau of Fisheries 
in connection with its patrol of the fishing grounds. During the 
period from October 1 to March 31, 4 special wardens of the Bureau, 
in addition to the watchman at the Naknek Marine Ways, attended 
to receiving and counting trout tails in the Bristol Bay area. 
In 1939 the bounty for Dolly Varden trout in the Bristol Bay area 
amounted to $15,820.75, payments being made to 314 residents, of 
whom 96 were whites and 218 of one-fourth or more native blood. In 
the Yakutat district, 30,254 Dolly Varden trout were taken in 1939, 
for which the bounty was $756.35; and in the Cook Inlet area 32,547 
trout were taken, the bounty amounting to $813.66. 
Traps for catching Dolly Varden trout were placed in the four 
streams on Kodiak Island where salmon-counting weirs were operated. 
The catch of trout in these streams was as follows: 51,500 in Karluk 
River, 52,852 in Red River, and 22,769 in Olga Bay streams. 
Studies of the Dolly Varden trout in the Kodiak area were con- 
tinued. 
STREAM MARKING 
New markers defining areas closed to commercial fishing were 
erected to replace those which had become defaced, and changes were 
made in the positions of others to conform to changes made in the 
regulations with respect to closed areas. 
STREAM GUARDS 
The Bureau employed 105 men in 1939 as stream guards, weir 
operators, and special workmen in connection with law-enforcement 
duties. Of these, 49 were stationed in southeast Alaska, 33 in central, 
and 23 in western Alaska. Some of the workers were engaged for only 
a few days, but the average period of employment ranged from 2 to 5 
months. 
In southeast Alaska 22 stream watchmen provided their own 
launches and were assigned to patrol larger bodies of water or in the 
vicinity of several streams. 
In central Alaska 6 guards were stationed in the Seward-Katalla 
district, 8 on Cook Inlet, 11 in the Kodiak-Afognak district, 3 at 
Chignik, and 5 in the Ikatan-Shumagin district. Two of the stream 
guards in the Seward-Katalla district provided their own launches. 
In western Alaska 21 guards were on Bristol Bay and 2 on the Yukon 
River. 
There were also 11 special employees engaged in scientific work— 
2 on herring and 9 on salmon investigations. In addition, there were 
12 statutory employees and 50 men on the Bureau’s vessels. 
The foregoing makes a grand total of 178 persons identified with 
fishery protective work in Alaska in 1939, as compared with 209 in 
1938. 
VESSEL PATROL 
Fourteen vessels of the Bureau were engaged in the patrol for the 
protection of the Alaska fisheries in 1939. Of these, the Avklet, 
Kittiwake, Merganser, Murre, and Widgeon were operated in southeast 
