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collected under such schedule for back years in addition to amounts previously 

 reported to you for the years 1923 and 1924. According to tax statements held 

 on temporary file, we still have to collect quite a considerable sum in graduated 

 pack taxes for the back years, the amounts outstanding being approximately 

 $30,500 for the year 1923 and $18,300 for the year 1924. Most of this money 

 will no doubt be collected within the next 30 or 60 days. 



Additional tax collections for 1923 and 1924, not included in previous statements 



1923: 



Graduated pack tax on canned salmon $108, 267. 58 



Tax on salmon in excess of 100,000 caught in traps 3, 329. 78 



1924: * 



Graduated pack tax on canned salmon 57, 390. 26 



Tax on salmon in excess of 100,000 caught in traps 2, 887. 33 



Penalty and interest on above payments 42, 320. 68 



Total 214, 195. 63 



BRISTOL BAY DISTRICT 



Work in the Bristol Bay region in 1925 consisted of a survey of 

 lakes and spawning grounds, improvement of salmon streams, de- 

 struction of predatory fishes, and the enforcement of the fishery laws 

 and regulations during the active salmon-fishing season. As in pre- 

 vious seasons, operations were under the general direction of Agent 

 Dennis Winn, who was in the district during the early part of the 

 season and gave personal attention to the inauguration of the work 

 in the various sections. Warden A. T. Looff later took active 

 charge. 



Transportation for a special force of 19 employees from the States 

 was afforded on vessels of the Alaska Packers Association, the 

 Alaska-Portland Packers Association, the Columbia River Packers 

 Association, the Naknek Packing Co., and Libby, McNeill & Libby. 

 This force, with two employees who had remained in the district 

 over the preceding winter and three others who arrived early in the 

 season by commercial steamer, comprised the bureau's working party 

 for the season. The same cannery ships furnished return transporta- 

 tion to the States for 14 men at the end of the season. The com- 

 panies also cooperated by transporting all necessary supplies for the 

 bureau's work. 



Mr. Winn's report is as follows: 



GENERAL REPORT OF SEASON'S OPERATIONS 



The work on predatory fish throughout the season was not as satisfactory as 

 in other years, due to the extremely short season. The sailing ships of the 

 canners are being superseded by steamers, hence they leave the States at a late 

 date and reach Bering Sea only in time to prepare for the season's operations. 

 Fishing lasted only 24 days, including Sundays, on the Kvichak-Naknek side of 

 the bay and 26 days on the Nushagak side. As the only transportation for the 

 bureau's employees was on cannery boats, the period of operations at the longest 

 was limited to two months. In view of this handicap the Commissioner of 

 Fisheries has instructed that all heretofore cooperative operations be conducted 

 in connection with the bureau's patrol until more efficient and satisfactory plans 

 can be formulated with regard to anticipated additions to the bureau's fleet of 

 vessels. 



Freight, including equipment and supplies, was transported by the Alaska- 

 Portland Packers Association from Portland, the Alaska Packers Association 

 from San Francisco, and the Northwestern Fisheries Co. from Seattle. The 

 Alaska-Portland Packers Association also transported two new launches and three 



