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the cost and time involved would not be justified. Accordingly,, on 

 June 4 the Roosevelt was condenmed and after the customary adver- 

 tising was sold at public auction to the highest bidder on Julv 15, 

 1919, for 828,000. 



Four vessels of the Bureau which were placed at the disposal of 

 the Navy Department for the period of the war have been returned 

 in good condition. It is understood that the military services of all, 

 as part of the auxiliary fleet, were important and useful. The ATha- 

 fross was under naval control from November 19, 1917, to June 23, 

 1919; the /^isA Haiti- from July 18, 1918, to July 1, 1919; the Halcyon 

 from May 14, 1917, to August 5, 1919; and the Phalarope from 

 December 6, 1917, to Julv 29, 1919. Both the Fish Hawk and the 

 Phalarope were employed in Navy work for considerable periods 

 prior to their being formally taken over. 



With the special appropriation for a vessel for the Pribilof Islands, 

 the power schooner Eider was purchased at Seattle for S26,500. This 

 boat, formerly a deep-sea halibut vessel known as the Idaho, was built 

 in 1913 and is of particularly seaworthy construction. She is 88 

 feet long, and 19 feet beam, and is equipped with a llO-horsepower 

 Frisco standard engine with the usual auxiliary machinery and fuel 

 tanks of sufficient capacity to give a cruising radius of 5,500 miles. 

 She will be further equipped with wireless apparatus, and as part of 

 her duty will be guarding the fur-seal rookeries, she will be furnished 

 with a light gun. 



There nave been transferred to the Bureau by the Navy Depart- 

 ment the motor boats Enterprise (S. P. 790), Polly (S. P. 690), Cohra 

 (S. P. 626) , and Calypso (S. P. 632). The two former will be used in 

 iish-cultural work on the Maine coast, and at Cape Vincent, N. Y., 

 respective!}', and the two latter as patrol boats in southeast Alaskan 

 waters. 



COOPERATION \\mi OTHER (JOVERNMENT AGENCIES. 



The Bureau of Fisheries cooperates with numerous other Govern- 

 ment bureaus, and is glad to acknowledge the helpful attitude which 

 exists throughout the public service. 



Relations of public importance have been maintained with the 

 National Park oervice, Department of the Interior, in Yellowstone 

 and Glacier National Parks, where the Bureau conducts hatcheries 

 and supplies fish for the stocking of park waters, while the National 

 Park Service afi'ords various facilities to this end. Shipments of fish 

 are made to other national parks on the request of the proper offi- 

 cials. The attraction which the national parks have for the general 

 Sublic is increased by the anj^fling facilities they afford; and the 

 ureau is in cordial accord with the movement to secure larger 

 patronage for our unrivaled national recreation grounds. 



The-Bureau of Indian Affairs has entered into an agreement with 

 the Bureau to promulgate better fishing regulations on the Quinault 

 Kiver in Washington, where a salmon hatrhery is maintained for 

 the benefit of the Indians. It became necessary to revise the regu- 

 lations governin<; fishing by the Indians, and this was successfullv 

 accomplished after many conferences between officials of botn 

 bureaus. 



