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despite limited funds and personnel on the part of the Bureau. 

 Under the terms of the cooperative agreement with the Forest Serv- 

 ice the Bureau of Fisheries assumes responsibility for conducting 

 research necessary for the develojDment of a comprehensive program 

 of fish management for waters of the national forests. The chief 

 activities in this field have been concerned with the improvement 

 of streams and with providing feeding and resting areas for trout. 

 At the end of the last fiscal year the Bureau conducted a training 

 school in Utah and North Carolina for stream technicians of the 

 Forest Service. These technicians then undertook an extensive pro- 

 gram of stream conditioning in the various national forests direct- 

 ing the efforts of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the removal 

 of obstructions of various kinds that interfered with the movements 

 of fish, the planting of shade trees to protect and beautify the streams, 

 and the correction of the ravages of deforestation and erosion by 

 installing dams and deflectors to control the water flow and to create 

 I'esting pools for trout and improved feeding and spawning areas. 

 In view of urgent need for further information on the value of 

 stream improvement and of other means of improving fishing con- 

 ditions in the national forests, arrangements were made for a num- 

 ber of experimental projects to be carried on in cooperation with 

 the Forest Service and in some cases with State conservation agencies. 

 In addition to the establishment of test streams in Vermont, such 

 projects have been established in the Pisgah National Forest of 

 North Carolina and in the Big Levels Game Management Area 

 of the George Washington National Forest of West Virginia. 



ALASKA FISHERIES SERVICE 

 ADMINISTRATION OF FISHERY LAWS AND REGULATIONS 



'Vhe control of commercial fishing in Alaska to assure the mainte- 

 nance of the fisheries resources on a maximum scale of productivity 

 was continued in accordance with the authority vested in the Secre- 

 tary of Commerce by the act of June 6, 1924. Particular attention 

 was given to securing an escapement of at least 50 percent of the 

 salmon runs in all localities; a proportionately larger breeding re- 

 serve was required where evidences of depletion were apparent. 



Because of the recurrent scarcity of red salmon in the important 

 Bristol Bay region in calendar years divisible by five, the regulations 

 issued for 1935 prohibited commercial fishing in that district. As 

 the season advanced, however, larger runs appeared than had been an- 

 ticipated, and certain waters were opened for limited fishing after 

 July 3. A few other modifications of existing regulations were made 

 during the season, among which was the curtailment of fall fishing in 

 parts of southeast Alaska where there had been an inadequate escape- 

 ment from the earlier runs of breeding salmon to the spawning 

 grounds. 



Under the revised regulations, issued on February 8, 1936, six fewer 

 trap sites were open than in the preceding year, the salmon-fishing 

 season was lengthened in several districts, additional localities were 

 opened to gill nets, and in the Cook Inlet area there was a shorten- 

 ing of the required distance interval between gill nets. Greater pro- 



