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In the fiscal year 1035 there wore sold 914 blue fox skins, raw, for 

 $21,935.50: 25 -white fox skins, raAV, for $333; 1 blue fox skin, dressed, 

 for $38; and 1 white fox skin, dressed, for $24; a total of $22,330.50. 

 The raw skins were taken on the Pribilof Islands in the 1933-34 

 season, and the dressed skins were of the 1932-33 season's take which 

 had been used for exhibition purposes. 



FDR-SEAL SKINS TAKEN BY NATIVES 



Indians dwellino- on the American coast of the North Pacific 

 Ocean are privileged to engage in limited pelagic sealing under the 

 provisions of the North Pacific Sealing Convention of 1911. The 

 sealskins thus taken must be authenticated by Gov^ernment officials 

 before they can enter into commerce. In the 1934 season there were 

 taken and duly authenticated by officials of the respective Govern- 

 ments 290 fur-seal skins, of which 23 were taken by Indians of 

 Washington, 11 by Indians of southeast Alaska, and 256 by Indians 

 of British Columbia. Reports have been received, also, of the 

 authentication of C additional sealskins taken in 1933 by Indians of 

 the State of Washington, making a total of 35 taken by them that 

 year. 



FUR-SEAL PATROL 



A patrol for the protection of the fur seals was maintained by the 

 United States Coast Guard, which detailed seven cutters and two 

 125-foot patrol vessels to this work in the calendar year 1934. Two 

 vessels of the Bureau also participated successively in the patrol 

 in the vicinity of Neah Bay, Wash., during the spring migration of 

 the herd. 



PROTECTION OF SEA OTTERS, WALRUSES, AND SEA LIONS 



Regulations issued on July 1, 1934, permit certain limited killing 

 of walruses and sea lions in Alaska under specified conditions. The 

 MUing of sea otters is prohibited at all times. 



PROPAGATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD AND GAME FISHES 



It is gratifying to report that a very moderate increase in the 

 appropriation available for the propagation of food and game fishes 

 resulted in a noticeable increase in output for the fiscal year 1935. 

 The total distribution of fish and eggs, including fry hatched on a 

 cooperative basis in State hatcheries, approximated 5,000,000,000 in 

 comparison with an output of 3,258,000,000 for the previous year. 

 The 1935 figures are still materially below the maximum output of 

 several years ago which exceeded 7,000,000.000. To a considerable 

 extent, this increase over the previous year was due to the resump- 

 tion of the activities at the Gloucester (Mass.) station which propa- 

 gates marine forms. Coupled with its increase there was a slight 

 step-up in the output of some of the varieties, both game and com- 

 mercial, handled at interior stations. 



Of the hatcheries which were closed the previous year owing to 

 economy requiren)ents, those in Alaska and the two Michigan com- 

 mercial hatcheries remained closed. The output of game fish was 

 closely comparable to the production of these species in 1934. 



