52 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



POWER SCHOONER " EIDER. " 



At the beginning of the year the bureau's power schooner Eider 

 was at Kodiak undergoing repairs. After leaving there the Eider 

 located the missing mail boat Pulitzer at Chignik. A large amount 

 of mail and several passengers were taken from the disabled vessel 

 and transported to Unga and Unalaska. 



Very valuable service was rendered by the Eider during the cal- 

 endar year 1921, some of the work being under particularly arduous 

 conditions. A total of 7,300 miles was covered and 134 passengers 

 carried. Seven trips to the Pribilof Islands were made from Unalaska, 

 one in each of the months February, March, April, May, June, August, 

 and September. The first trip was made early in February. Such 

 severe weather was encountered that, after remaining at anchor 

 off St. George Island three days, ice and wind compelled the vessel 

 to return to Unalaska without making a landing. Two trips were 

 in the vicinity of Belkofsky and Unalaska to secure native workmen 

 for temporary duty on St. Paul Island. A naval radio operator from 

 Dutch Harbor was detailed to the Eider on the March trip to the 

 Pribilof Islands. In addition to supplies transported for the Pribilofs 

 on each trip stores for the naval radio station on St. Paul Island 

 were carried by the Eider at various times. During the period the 

 U. S. S. Saturn was delivering the annual supplies for the bureau the 

 Eider was placed under the orders of the commanding officer of that 

 vessel and rendered assistance both at Unalaska and at the islands 

 in the landing of the supplies. 



In September the Eider proceeded to Kodiak for necessary annual 

 overhauling and returned to Unalaska in December. The more 

 important repairs or changes were an increase in the area of iron 

 bark on the hull, enlarging of engine room space, installation of 

 engine room ventilators, rearrangement and increase in number and 

 size of staterooms, raising forecastle deck rail 12 inches, and raising 

 and remounting the winch. The vessel was at Unalaska at the close 

 of the year. 



NEW FUR-SEAL AND SEA-OTTER REGULATIONS. 



Under date of April 21, 1921, a new departmental circular. No. 

 285, was issued by the Secretary of Commerce embodying the laws 

 and regulations for the protection of fur seals and sea otters. It 

 contains a reprint of the act of April 21, 1910, the fur-seal convention 

 between Great Britain, Russia, Japan, and the United States signed 

 July 7, 1911, the act of August 24, 1912, giving effect to the con- 

 vention, and the presidential proclamation of May 31, 1913, for the 

 preservation and protection oi fur seals and sea otters. The revised 

 regulations which appear in the circular are as follows: 



FUR SEALS. 



1. Persons lawfully landing on any of the Pribilof Islands, whether to remain tem- 

 porarily or otherwise, must confine themselves to their lawful activities, and any 

 visiting of rookeries or hauling grounds of seals or sea lions must first be authorized 

 by the department's agents in charge. 



2. In order that persons authorized or permitted to land may have an opportunity 

 to observe the seal life, the department's agents in charge will provide escorts, at 

 convenient times, to accompany interested persons to proper observation points. 



