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the salmon run and escapement to the spawning gromids, and de- 

 struction of predatory fishes, AU work was organized and super- 

 vised by Agent Dennis Winn, who remained in the district throughout 

 the summer. 



During the latter part of April and the first of May transportation 

 for Agent Dennis Winn, Warden Arnie J. Suomela, and 25 special 

 employees was afforded on vessels of the Alaska Packers Association, 

 Alaska-Portland Packers Association, Columbia River Packers 

 Association, Nakat Packing Corporation, Naknek Packing Co., and 

 Libby, McNeill & Libby. These vessels also carried supplies and 

 equipment for the bureau to the Bristol Bay district and furnished 

 return passage for 14 men at the end of the season. Eleven of the 

 special employees returned via Dillingham, Kanatak, and Iliamna 

 Lake, passage to the States being secured on regular transportation 

 steamers. 



After completion of a general overhauling of ail boats and equip- 

 ment at the bureau's marine ways at Naknek, a party of nine men, 

 headed by Henry McFadden, proceeded on two launches to Ugashik 

 to install a salmon-counting weir at a point below the first Ugashik 

 Lake in the same location as last season. A report on the work at 

 the weir is included in the special section covering weir operations. 



A crew, with G. Severson in charge, was dispatched to the Kvichak 

 River to begin the counting of salmon by the construction of a new 

 weir at that place. Early in July, however, before the work was 

 completed, all five tunnels and some of the piling were washed away, 

 due to pressure of high water resulting from an accumulation of a 

 quantity of fine, grassy material brought downstream from heavy 

 beaver workings. The webbing was removed and the remaining 

 piles were pulled up and stored. 



Prior to the opening of the red-salmon season at 6 a. m., June 

 24, all arrangements were made for patrol of the commercial fishing 

 grounds. Warden Suomela's report on operations during the season 

 is as follows: 



GENERAL REPORT OF SEASON'S OPERATTONS 



During the fishing season of 1927 the patrol vessel Scoter, seven launches, 

 and one dory were used in the patrol of the waters of Bristol Bay. Fifteen 

 cases of violation of the Alaska fisheries laws and regulations were reported and 

 tried before the local United States commissioner. The patrol fleet was assigned 

 to the various sections of Bristol Bay, as follows: 



Ugashik River and Bay. — Launch No. 6, C. M. Hatton and R. Blyberg; and 

 launch No. 8, Henry McFadden and W. Haynes, when not engaged in con- 

 nection with operation of the Ugashik weir. 



Egegik. — Clarence Olsen with a dory. 



Naknek River. — Launch No. 2, Alf Christensen and Louis Strong. This 

 launch also assisted in patrol of lower Kvichak Bay. 



Kvichak Bay and River. — Launch No. 1, George Stevenson and Walter Russell; 

 and launch No. 7, Gus Seversen and Arthur Mesford, when not occupied with 

 work at the Kvichak weir. 



Nushagak Bay and River. — Launch No. 3, Eric Fenno and Walter J. Kelly. 

 On duty from the beginning of the king salmon season early in June. 



Igushik River. — Launch No. 5, Hector McAllister. On patrol duty from the 

 beginning of the king salmon season early in June. 



The Scoter, with Warden A. J. Suomela on board, patrolled all waters of 

 Bristol Bay. 



Work of bureau employees concurrent with the patrol included the collecting 

 of 5,619 samples of salmon scales from various districts, as follows: Naknek, 



