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to the killing of walruses by natives for food or clothing, by miners or explorers 

 when in need of food, or to the collection of specimens for scientific purposes 

 under permits issued by the Secretary of Commerce. 



On June 16, 1934, an act was passed pertaining to the killing of sea 

 lions in Alaska waters, the text of which is as follows: 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amer- 

 ica in Congress assembled, That all acts and parts of acts making it unlawful to kill 

 sea lions, as game animals or otherwise, in the waters of the Territory of Alaska 

 are repealed: Provided, however, That sea lions shall not be killed in the waters 

 of Alaska except under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce 

 may prescribe, in order to prevent the extinction of sea lions as a species of in- 

 teresting sea life in the waters of Alaska. 



The following departmental regulations governing the killing of 

 sea lions in the waters of Alaska were made effective on July 1, 1934: 



The killing of sea lions in the Territory of Alaska, or in any of the waters of 

 Alaska over which the United States has jurisdiction, is permitted as follows: 



1. (a) By natives for food or clothing, and by miners or explorers when in need 

 of food. 



(b) By anyone in the necessary protection of propertj', or while such animals 

 are destroying salmon or other food fish. 



2. The killing of sea lions as specimens for scientific purposes will be under 

 permits issued by the Secretary of Commerce. 



PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS 



Allotments to the Bureau by the Public Works Administration in 

 the fiscal year 1934 included $29,000 for projects having to do with 

 the Alaska service. Of this amount, $20,000 was for reconditioning 

 and repairing 12 Alaska vessels, $3,000 for reconditioning and re- 

 pairing buildings at the Pribilof Islands, and $6,000 for reestabUshing 

 weirs to tally escapements of spawning salmon. These funds helped 

 materially to further the Bureau's program for the conservation of 

 the fisheries and the management of the fur-seal industry. A part of 

 the allotment for weirs was carried over for reestablishing the struc- 

 tures in 1935. 



CIVIL WORKS PROJECT 



Under date of December 6, 1933, the Department was notified of 

 the approval of the Civil Works project for the improvement of 

 salmon spawning streams in southeast Alaska. The Territorial 

 Civil Works Administrator was authorized to furnish 198 unskilled 

 laborers for this work. Operations were under the supervision of 

 three regular employees of the Bureau of Fisheries in the Alaska 

 field service. A report of the work accomplished is included under 

 the section regarding stream improvement. 



FISHERY INDUSTRIES 



As in corresponding reports for previous years, the Territory of 

 Alaska is here considered in the three coastal geographic sections 

 generally recognized, as follows: (1) Southeast Alaska — embracing 

 all that narrow strip of mainland and the numerous adjacent islands 

 from Portland Canal northwestward to and including Yakutat Bay; 

 (2) central Alaska — the region on the Pacific from Yakutat Bay 

 westward, including Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet, and the 

 southern coast of Alaska Peninsula, to Unimak Pass; and (3) 

 western Alaska — the north shore of the Alaska Peninsula, including 

 the Aleutian Islands westward from Unimak Pass, Bristol Bay, and 



