REPORT OF ALASKA INVESTIGATIONS. 



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District No. 3. — From Afognak Island west to Unimak Island, including the southern coast line of the 

 Alaska Peninsula, the Semidi, Shumagin, and Sannak Groups of Islands, also Kodiak and Afognak Islands, 

 with headquarters at Kodiak. This is a section that needs work the year round and is a territory difficult 

 to cover. There should be a chief warden at $2,00^ and three wardens at $1,000 each. 



District No. 4. — To include the waters and territory north of the Alaska Peninsula and Bristol Bay, 

 to 62 north latitude, and west from Unimak, including all the Aleutian Reservation, with headquarters 

 at Unalaska, or, preferably, Dutch Harbor. There should be a chief warden at $2,000 and three wardens 

 at $1,000 each. 



District No. 5. — To embrace all waters and territory north of 62 north latitude, which includes the 

 Yukon River and tributaries; headquarters to be at Fairbanks. There should be a chief warden at $2,000 

 and three wardens at $1 ,000 each. 



Five proposed districts for administering fisheries and fur-bearing 'animal affairs of Alaska. 



The duties of these men would be many and diverse. During the salmon season, which varies in 

 different sections and lasts from three to six months, their time would be well taken up with this work. 

 At other periods of the year some of them could assist at hatcheries during certain busy seasons. Also, 

 the fur-bearing animals, as well as the codfish, the herring, and the halibut industries, are to be looked 

 after the year around. At the present time, outside of our meager work in southeastern Alaska, practically 

 the rest of the vast territory has been abandoned so far as inspection work is concerned. It is ridiculous 

 to assume that any one man can properly take care of 5,000 miles of coast line or patrol a territory of 

 100,000 square miles, as is expected with our present staff. The territory is entirely too large for interlocking 

 the various divisions, and each chief warden should work with his men independent of the other districts 

 and send reports direct to headquarters. 



