ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES 985 
Territorial Legislature. and the Bristol Bay salmon packers appro- 
priate about $15,000 annually for this purpose, and in 1935° and 
1936 these funds were supplemented with $20,000 of W. P. A. funds 
which were made available as a relief measure. As in previous years, 
only bona fide residents of Bristol Bay were engaged in this work, and 
payments were at the rate of 2 cents for each trout destroyed. 
Special wardens of the Bureau supervised the work and prepared the 
necessary vouchers. 
Dolly Varden trout also were destroyed during the year by weir 
crews: 46,260 trout were destroyed at Red River, and 34,754 at the 
cannery station in Olga Bay. 
STREAM MARKING 
New markers defining areas closed to commercial fishing were 
erected to replace those which had become illegible or damaged, and 
changes were made in the positions of others to conform with changes 
made in the regulations with respect to closed areas. 
STREAM GUARDS 
The Bureau employed 177 men in 1936 as stream guards, weir 
operators, and special workmen in connection with law-enforcement 
duties. Of these, 85 were stationed in southeast Alaska, 61 in central, 
and 81 in western Alaska. Some of the workers were engaged for 
only a few days but the average period of employment ranged from 
2 to 5 months. 
In southeast Alaska 36 stream watchmen furnished their own 
launches and were assigned to patrol larger bodies of water or in the 
vicinity of several streams. 
In central Alaska 12 guards were stationed in the Seward-Katalla 
district, 7 on Cook Inlet, 31 in the Kodiak-Afognak district, 4 at 
Chignik, and 7 in the Ikatan-Shumagin district. Eleven of these 
guards, most of whom were in the Seward-Katalla district, furnished 
their own launches. 
In western Alaska 26 were on Bristcl Bay and 5 in the Yukon- 
Kuskokwim district. 
There were also 8 special employees engaged in scientific work—2 
on herring and 6 on salmon investigations, this work being carried on 
in southeastern and central Alaska. 
In addition, there were 12 statutory employees, 49 men on the 
Bureau’s vessels, and 3 on the chartered boats. 
The foregoing makes a grand total of 249 persons identified with 
fishery protective work in Alaska in 1936, as compared with 241 in 
1935. 
VESSEL PATROL 
Fourteen vessels of the Bureau were engaged in the Alaska fisheries 
patrol in 1986. Of these, the Awklet, Kittiwake, Merganser, Murre, 
and Widgeon were used in southeast Alaska; the /bis was at Chignik; 
the Red Wing and the Crane in the Alaska Peninsula area; the Scoter 
on Bristol Bay; and the Coot on the Yukon River. 
The Blue Wing was transferred from the Kodiak area to Prince 
William Sound in June and continued to operate in the latter district 
through the rest of the season. The Hider transported supplies from 
Seattle to the Alaska Peninsula area in May, after which it patrolled 
