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most interesting that has come to the Bureau for many 

 years; and it is a question which will have to be handled 

 with a great deal of care and judgment it seems to me.* 



* The sundry civil bill, approved March 4, 1911, made provision for 

 a new division in the Bureau of Fisheries to be known as " The Alaska 

 Fisheries Service," essentially as suggested in this article, to become 

 effective July 1, 1911. This service will include the fur-seal fisheries, 

 the Alaska salmon fisheries, the fur-bearing animals of Alaska, and all 

 other matters pertaining to the fisheries of Alaska. 



