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the Kodiak region. The Teal conducted the patrol on Cook Inlet 
duritg the summer and assisted with the stream survey work in 
southeast Alaska in the fall. The Brant was engaged for the most 
part in general supervisory work, making a cruise as far westward as 
Bristol Bay in July. 
During the spring the Brant and Crane assisted with the fur-seal 
patrol in the vicinity of Neah Bay, Wash., and the Aittiwake per- 
formed similar duty near Sitka, Alaska. The last-named vessel was 
used also in herring tagging operations. From February to April the 
Eider was assigned to the Works Progress Administration project of 
stream improvement in the Juneau and Wrangell districts of south- 
east Alaska, and the Awklet was identified with the project in April 
in connection with the construction of a fish ladder at Pavlof Harbor. 
From November 17, 1936, to February 4, 1937, the Crane was detailed 
to the service of the Post Office Department for the purpose of trans- 
porting mail between Seattle and Juneau during the maritime strike. 
As in the previous year, four speed boats were in operation, one each 
on Bristol Bay, in Prince William Sound, in the Wrangell district, 
and in the vicinity of Juneau. Sixteen other small power boats also 
were in use, including a number of skiffs equipped with outboard 
motors. Of these, five were used on Bristol Bay, two in the Alaska 
Peninsula area, one at Chignik, three at Kodiak, one on Cook Inlet, 
two in the Seward-Katalla district, one at Yakutat, and one on the 
west coast of Prince of Wales Island. 
In addition te the foregoing, a few boats were chartered for patrol- 
ling the fishing grounds, as follows: The gas boat Mars in the Ketchi- 
kan district, the Wingham in the Seward-Katalla district, the Auk and 
later the Popof in the Alaska Peninsula area, and the launch Marie S 
on the Yukon River. 
AERIAL PATROL 
Airplanes chartered from commercial companies were used to a 
considerable extent in the patrol of fishing grounds in southeast 
Alaska and the Seward-Katalla district, especially during weekly closed 
periods. Their use to supplement the vessel patrol is of distinct 
advantage, as a very large area can be covered in a short time, and 
fishermen are deterred from illegal operations because they do not know 
which plane is on patrol nor is there time to adjust their apparatus at 
the approach of an investigator. Planes were used also in making 
inspections of some of the spawning grounds and in transporting 
officials of the Bureau to isolated districts. During the 1936 season 
a total of 14.413 nautical miles was traveled in these activities, on 46 
days, the total flying time amounting to about 143 hours. 
COMPLAINTS AND PROSECUTIONS 
In southeast Alaska 9 purse-seine boats, with an aggregate of 41 
men in the crews, most of whom were Indians, were seized for fishing 
in closed waters during the month of August. The cases were tried 
before local United States Commissioners and convictions were secured 
in each instance. Salmon aboard the seized vessels were sold and the 
proceeds turned over to the Department of Justice. 
In the case of the seine boat St. Joseph, found fishing about 1 mile 
inside the markers in Rudyerd Bay and within 500 yards of the mouth 
of a salmon stream, the captain pleaded guilty and was fined $100, 
upon payment of which the boat was released. A fine of $100 also 
