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"Sec. — . That it shall be unlawful, after January first, nineteen hundred and eleven, 

 to utilize any part of any food fish save the offal and refuse thereof in the manufacture 

 of fertilizer or fish oil. 



"Sec. — . That the provisions of sections thirteen and sixteen of chapter four hundred 

 and twenty-five of an act entitled 'An act making appropriations for the construction 

 repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for othe r 

 purposes, ' approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, shall be applied 

 to the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor 

 and his agents for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, and any officer or 

 employee of the Department of Commerce and Labor designated by him, shall be 

 charged with the enforcement of said section thirteen and shall have the same power 

 and authority in all respects to swear out process and arrest as the several officials 

 named in section seventeen of chapter four hundred and twenty-five of the above act." 

 Respectfully, 



Charles Nagel, Secretary. 



There is pending before Congress a measure for reorganization and 

 expansion of the Alaska work of the Bureau of Fisheries, under the 

 one head of Alaska Fisheries Service. This division will include, if 

 the law is enacted, the salmon-inspection service and the fur-seal serv- 

 ice, together with supervision of all other fisheries and fur resources 

 of Alaska. 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 



1. That vessels be provided for the inspection service as recom- 

 mended in the report for 1909, and that immediate provision be made 

 for the two smaller launches requested, as the most urgent needs of 

 the service, for use during the 1911 season. 



2. That in addition to the recommendations contained in depart- 

 mental letter of May 25, 1910, printed on page 64 of this report, 

 for the amendment of the present fisheries act of June 26, 1906, the 

 weekly close season for salmon, as expressed in section 5 of the 

 existing law, be extended over all Alaskan waters except Bering Sea 

 and its arms; and that in sections 3 and 4 the word "salmon" be 

 substituted for red salmon. 



