26 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHEBIES. 



Transportation for nine men was granted on the Alaska Packers Associa- 

 tion ship Star of Lapland from Semiahmoo, Wash., to Bristol Bay. The 

 Alaska-Portland Packers' Association ship Berlin, Portland, Oreg., transported 

 three men, supplies, and equipment, and two launches and quantities of fuel 

 oil for the summer's work at Naknek. The Burgess of the same company trans- 

 ported supplies, equipment, and fuel oil, and the Columbia River Packers' 

 Association ship St. Nicholas, Astoria, Oreg., furnished passage for three men 

 and transported one launch for Nushagak operations. Various ships of the 

 Alaska Packers Association transported needed supplies and equipment to the 

 sectors operated at Kvichak, Egegik, and Ugashik, together with necessary fuel 

 oil for the same districts. 



On the return passage was furnished for seven men on the Alaska Packers 

 Association sliip Star of Zealand and for one man on the Indiana to San Fran- 

 cisco, for three men on the Alaska-Portland Pacifiers' Association ship Chilli- 

 cothe, for two men on the ship Burgess of the same company, and for three 

 men on the Columbia River Packers' Association ship St. NicJwlas to Astoria. 



The writer and an assistant proceeded over the regular transportation route 

 from Seattle to Anchorage, across Cook Inlet via launch to Iliamna Bay, thence 

 over the divide to Iliamna Village by snowshoes, thence after the ice break-up 

 to Bristol Bay. in which section the former supervised the work to the end of the 

 season, after which the return trip was made over the same route to the States. 



In compliance with the recommendation of the previous season the bureau 

 purchased in Bristol Bay a cruising boat of the purse-seine type that had 

 been towed up from the States by the Alaska-Portland Packers' Association 

 steamer Akutan. This boat, known before the purchase as the Clatsop, was 

 rechrlstened Scoter by the bureau. It met every expectation, made it po.ssible 

 to keep in close touch with the different crews, and minimized the difficulties 

 of getting action in prosecuting law violators, which was never successful with 

 the facilities of previous years. 



Three small launches of the Columbia River trelling-boat type, purchased by 

 the packers for the bureau's operations, were used for trout work and stream 

 patrol. As some repairs were necessary to two of the launches it was late 

 before they could be placed in commission, but they were all especially useful 

 in patrol woi'k. 



Before the arrival of the writer in Bristol Bay Warden A. T. Looff assumed 

 charge and placed the different crews in their allotted districts, using the 

 Scoter for transportation. Every courtesy was shown by the cannery super- 

 intendents in the different sections visited, and sincere appreciation is expressed 

 for the unselfish assistance given. 



Warden A. T. Looff. with an assistant, was detailed by the bureau to remain 

 in the Wood River district for the winter of 1922-23. His duties were to visit 

 the spawning grounds and obtain all information possible regarding the salmon, 

 especially that pertinent to their predatory enemies, and to do whatever was 

 possible to exterminate the latter. A thorough survey of this lake system is con- 

 templated with the hope of obtaining authentic data regarding each tributary 

 stream that will be useful in future work. Such a survey could be accom- 

 plished only during the late fall after the departure of the cannery ships. 



DE.STKUCTION OF PREDATORY FISHES AND BIRDS. 



Naknek. — The Naknek crew of three men, in charge of Gus Severson, sailed 

 from Portland on April 21 on the Alaska-Portland Packers' Association bark 

 Berlin. Through misfortune the ship ran on Egegik flats, off Egegik River, 

 on May 17. Although no lives were lost and nearly all the supplies and 

 equipment were salvaged, the ship was held fast and broke completely during 

 the summer storms. The evening of May 18 the crew was landed at the 

 Naknek cannery of the Alaska-Portland Packers' Association. Work of pre- 

 paring equipment, painting dories, etc., was accomplished, and as soon as 

 sufficient mess supplies were available the crew left for Naknek Lake to begin 

 the season's work. Two loaded dories were towed to the foot of the rapids 

 with patrol boat No. 2, in charge of Warden A. T. Looff. A few days were 

 spent here fishing the river, using drift nets and gill nets stretched entirely 

 aci-oss the stream. The results were good but of short duration. When the 

 catch showed a material reduction camp was moved above the rapids to the 

 outlet of the lake. The loaded dories were lined through the rapids and the 

 Evinrude used for power above that point. Good fishing occurred here. On 

 June 7 the first red salmon made its appearance, but salmon were not numer- 



