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advisory committees associated with the Business Advisory Council. 
‘A number of new members have been appointed ; and under a rota- 
tional arrangement Gardner Poole was elected chairman of the Com- 
mittee succeeding E. B. McGovern. 
During the year, the committee studied problems of national impor- 
tance as well as those of local interest to the fishery industry. Among 
these are: legislation for the protection of game and migratory fish, 
scientific research, food standards, marketing, and distribution. A 
program of suggested topics for consideration by regional committees 
has been drafted for the subjects of reports at later meetings, 
SOCKEYE SALMON TREATY 
The Sockeye Salmon Fisheries Convention signed at Washington 
on May 26, 1930, was ratified by the Canadian Parliament in that 
year and on June 16, 1936, it was ratified with three reservations by 
the United States Senate. These reservations were accepted by the 
Canadian Government and ratifications have been exchanged. The 
treaty provides for the establishment of a commission of six members 
to be known as the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commis- 
sion whose duty it will be to investigate the natural history of the 
sockeye salmon runs and to make recommendations to the two Gov- 
ernments as to the best measures for the regulation of the fisheries 
with a view to conservation and restoration. 
The Convention originally provided for certain specific regulations 
to be prescribed and enforced by the Commission. This power, how- 
ever, was withheld from the Commission by the reservations of the 
United States Senate, which provided that the Commission shall have 
no power to authorize any type of fishing gear in Convention waters 
which was prohibited by Washington or British Columbia; that no 
regulations of fishing should be promulgated or enforced until sci- 
entific investigations had been conducted for a period of 8 years; and 
that an advisory committee from each country, representing the vari- 
ous branches of the fishing industry, be established to work with the 
Commission. 
The American members of the International Pacific Salmon Fish- 
eries Commission have not yet been appointed by the President. 
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES 
During the latter part of 1936 the Bureau began construction of a 
small byproducts laboratory building located on the grounds of the 
main laboratory building in Seattle, Wash. This building was com- 
pleted early in the spring of 1937. 
The development and improvement of buildings at fish cultural sta- 
tions in progress, at the close of the previous fiscal year, were con- 
tinued in a number of instances. This was almost entirely prosecuted 
by W. P. A. allotments. Activities at Uvalde, Tex., and Smokemont, 
N. C., were brought to completion and an enlargement of the San 
Angelo station was effected. Work continued at various points in- 
cluding the stations at Walhalla, S. C., Rochester, Ind., Natchitoches, 
La., and Lake Mills, Wis. In the Upper Mississippi Wild Life and 
Fish Refuge, an extensive acreage of bass ponds is being developed. 
