ALASKA nSHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1911, 



GENERAL ADMimSTRATIVE REPORT. 



By Barton Warren Evermann, Chief, Alaska Fisheries Service, 



and 



F. M. Chamberlain, Agent, Alaska Salmon Fisheries. 



The Alaska salmon service and the fur-seal service, established in 

 the Treasury Department the year following the purchase of Alaska, 

 were transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor by the 

 act of Congress of February 14, 1903, creating that department, the 

 transfer becoming effective July 1, 1903. By order of the Secretary 

 of Commerce and Labor, then Hon. Victor H. Metcalf, the Alaska 

 salmon service was placed under the immediate supervision of the 

 Bureau of Fisheries February 15, 1905 ; and by order of the succeeding 

 Secretary, Hon. Oscar S. Straus, under date of December 28, 1908, 

 the "general management, supervision, and contr©! of the execution, 

 enforcement, and administration of the laws relating to the fur-seal 

 fisheries of Alaska" were placed with the Bureau of Fisheries. The 

 "A'^t to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes," 

 approved April 21, 1910, gave the Secretary of Commerce and Labor 

 jurisdiction over all fur-bearing animals in Alaska, and these duties 

 the present Secretary, Hon. Charles Nagel, at once placed with the 

 Bureau of Fisheries. 



The act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses oi 

 the Government for the fiscal year 1912, approved March 4, 1911, 

 established the "Alaska Fisheries Service," to include the Alaska 

 salmon fisheries service, the fur-seal service, and the service relating 

 to other fur-bearing animals. 



The reports of the salmon and seal agents, therefore, hitherto 

 published separately, will now be included, with the reports on 

 remaining branches of the Alaska Fisheries Service, under one 

 cover, the detailed statistical and descriptive portions, as furnished 

 by the respective agents, supplementing the general administrative 

 report of the year's activities. 



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