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39 in western Alaska. Some of the temporary workers were engaged 

 for only a few da3's, but the period of employment of the stream 

 guards generally ranged from two to five months. 



Jn southeastern Alaska, 49 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, 18 guards were stationed in the Seward-Katalla 

 district, 6 on Cook Inlet, 31 in the Kodiak-Afognak district, 5 at 

 Chignik, and 11 in the Ikatan-Shumagin district. Fourteen of these 

 guards, most of whom were in the v^eward-Katalla district, provided 

 their own launches. 



In western Alaska 37 were on Bristol Bay; and 2, of whom 1 fur- 

 nished his own boat, were in the Yukon-Kuskokvvim district. 



There were also 8 special employees engaged in scientific work — 

 2 on herring and 6 on salmon investigations, this work being con- 

 ducted chiefly in southeastern and central Alaska. 



In addition, there were 12 statutory employees, 45 men on the 

 bureau's vessels, and 17 on the 10 chartered boats. 



The foregoing makes a grand total of 298 persons identified with 

 fisherv-pj'otective work m Alaska in 1929, as compared with 280 in 

 1928.' 



VESSEL PATROL 



Fomleen vessels owned by the bureau were operated in fishery- 

 patrol work in Alaska in 1929. Of these, the Widgeon, Murre, Auklei, 

 and Petrel were used in southeastern Alaska; the Blue Wing and 

 Red Wing at Kodiak and Afognak Islands; the Ibis at Chignik; the 

 Merganser in the Ikatan-Shumagin region; and the Coot on the Yukon 

 River. The Brant was in the southeastern district during much of 

 the season, being used chiefly in general supervisory work, in which 

 connection one cruise was made westward as far as Unalaska in 

 July. Vessels used in southeastern Alaska for a few weeks in the 

 fall after their return from duty to the westward were the Scoter, 

 which had been in the Bristol Bay section until the last of August; 

 the Crane, which in May transported bureau employees and supplies 

 to Bristol Bay and later was engaged in patrol work in the Alaska 

 Peninsula district; the Teal, which was on Cook Inlet during the 

 salmon-fishing season there; and the Kittkvake, which was operated 

 in the Seward-Katalla district until the end of August. 



The Coot is a new vessel in the bureau's Alaska service, having been 

 built at Bellingham, Wash., in the spring of 1929. It is 50 feet in 

 length and 11 feet in breadth, and is eciuipped with a 100-horsepower 

 gas engine. It has sleeping acconnnodations for 7 persons. The Coot 

 was shipped north in June on the freight steamer Derblay to St. 

 Michael, Alaska, where it was immediately put in patrol service, 

 replacing the Tern, which was then sold. 



Incidentally to its patrol work during a trip down the Yukon 

 River in Augiist, the Coot conveyed Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of the 

 division of physical anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 Washington, D. C., who was making investigations in Alaska in 

 connection with his study of the American Indian. 



The following chartered boats were used in fisheiies patrol : Valkyrie, 

 Bear, IJelen IJinton, Janie K, Lady Luck, and Yukon in southeastern 

 Alaska; Pilot and Prospector on Copper River and Prince William 

 Sound; Coyote on Cook Inlet; and Auk in the Port Moller region. 



