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work and personally supervised operations in the district during the 

 season. 



On April 22 the bureau's patrol vessel Scoter sailed from Seattle 

 for Bristol Bay, with Warden N. O. Hardy and five special employees. 

 An employee for the Alaska Peninsula district was also aboard and 

 disembarked at King Cove. Warden Fred R. Lucas and 13 other 

 employees were transferred to Bristol Bay on the Crane, which left 

 Seattle on April 23. Agent Dennis Winn sailed from Bellingham, 

 Wash., on May 1 on a vessel of the Pacific American Fisheries, and 

 11 special employees took pass'age on a regular transportation 

 steamer from Seattle on May 14. These, together with the Scoter ^s 

 crew and four bureau employees who had remained in the district 

 during the preceding winter, comprised the Bristol Bay force in 1930. 

 Some additional labor was obtained locally for brief periods. All 

 food supplies, light hardware, and miscellaneous equipment were 

 carried by the bureau 's vessels, while the heavy shipments, including 

 lumber, cement, machinery, gasoline, and oils, were taken north on 

 cannery freighters. 



At the close of the season the Scoter sailed for Juneau with W^arden 

 Fred R. Lucas and six special employees. The latter continued the 

 journey to Seattle by commercial vessel, while Mr. Lucas remained 

 to assist with the fall patrol and stream survey in southeast Alaska. 

 Eight Bristol Bay employees returned south on regular transportation 

 steamer and 14 on the Crane, via Juneau, where one of the latter 

 landed to transfer to a vessel bound for Sitka. One employee, a 

 former resident of the district, did not return to the States, and four 

 remained again to attend to winter duties for the bureau. Agent 

 Dennis Winn and Warden N. O. Hardy, accompanied by Alan C. 

 Taft, who had been conducting scientific investigations of the red 

 salmon in the district, crossed the portage to Iliamna Bay and were 

 conveyed by the bureau's vessel Teal to Seward, whence they sailed 

 on a regular transportation vessel to Juneau. 



Upon arrival at the marine ways at Naknek all employees assisted 

 with unloading cargo and in getting the boats and other equipment 

 in readiness for the season's activities. Construction of weirs was 

 then begun, the installation of the Naknek weir being undertaken 

 first, the crew for which was transported to the weir camp on May 

 26. This work is discussed in the special section on salmon weirs. 

 Prior to the opening of the red-salmon season at 6 a. m. on June 25 

 all arrangements were made for the patrol of the commercial fishing 

 grounds. 



Mr. Hardy's report on operations during the season is as follows: 



GENERAL REPORT OF SEASON 's OPERATIONS 



In addition to the inspection of gear in use and the survej^ of fishing operations 

 to see that the regulations are complied with, the duties of the patrol force 

 include the replacemeiit or repair of bureau markers defining the limits of closed 

 areas, the gathering of pack statistics each week, and the observation and report 

 of the extent of the salmon runs during the weekly closed periods. A constant 

 patrol of all fishing areas was maintained throughout the commercial fishing 

 season. No violations of the fishery laws or regulations were reported, and it 

 is believed that the prosecutions of the preceding season had a tendency to stop 

 willful transgression. 



