August 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



85 



Donald R, Johnson 



JOHNSON APPOINTED PACIFIC 

 NORTHWEST REGIONAL DIRECTOR : 



The appointment of Donald R. Johnson as 

 Regional Director of the Pacific Northwest 



Region of the Bureau 

 of Commercial Fish- 

 eries with headquar- 

 ters Ln Seattle, Wash., 

 was announced July 

 12, 1966, bythe U.S. 

 Department of the 

 Interior. Johnson 

 was formerly Di- 

 rector of the Bu- 

 reau's Pacific South- 

 west Region, admin- 

 isteredfrom Term- 

 inal Island, Calif. 

 He succeeds Samuel 

 J. Hutchinson, who 

 now heads the Bureau's recently created Of- 

 fice of International Trade Promotion in Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Johnson will direct all Bureau activities 

 in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and 

 Wyoming; advise the Bureau Director Don- 

 ald L. McKernan Ln developing regional, na- 

 tional, and international policies and programs; 

 oversee the management of the fur seal herd 

 on the Pribilof Islands in accordance with in- 

 ternational treaty; and give particular atten- 

 tion to the status of Columbia River salmon 

 and the development of the Pacific hake fish- 

 ery. He will also supervise scientific re- 

 search work Ln the Northwest Pacific Ocean. 



Johnson was born Ln Portland, Oreg. In 

 1939 he received a Bachelor of Science de- 

 gree in fisheries from Oregon State Univer- 

 sity and later took graduate courses Ln fish- 

 eries at the University of Washington. For 

 three years he was Staff scientist on the In- 

 ternational Pacific Salmon Fisheries Com- 

 mission; for 6 years, he directed research 

 on fish populations of the Columbia River for 

 the Oregon Fish Commission; for 7 years, 

 he was Chief Supervisor of Research, Wash- 

 ington State Department of Fisheries. In 1958 

 he joined the Bureau of Commercial Fisher- 

 ies to direct its programs in southern Cali- 

 fornia. When that area became the Bureau's 

 Pacific Southwest Region Ln 1964, he was 

 named Regional Director. 



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NEW DIRECTOR OF SEATTLE TECH- 

 NOLOGICAL LABORATORY APPOINTED : 



The appointment of Maynard A. Steinberg 

 as Director of the Bureau of Commercial 



Fisheries Tech- 

 nological Labor- 

 atory in Seattle, 

 Wash., effective 

 July 1, 1966, was 

 announced by the 

 U. S. Department 

 of the Interior. 

 He succee ds 

 Maurice E. Stans- 

 by, who will head 

 a new research 

 unit, and has 

 worked for the 

 past 10 years at the Bureau's Technolog 

 Laboratory in Gloucester, Mass 



Maynard A, Steinberg 



ical 



The Seattle Laboratory studies the prop- 

 erties and chemical reactions of fish oils to 

 improve and expand the market for marine 

 products. Other research includes pasteur- 

 ization of several species of fish to extend 

 their storage life. The laboratory also seeks 

 to increase the utilizatLon and improve the 

 quality of fish and fishery resources. 



SteLnberg who was born at WLnthrop, Mass. 

 received his Bachelor of Science degree from 

 the University of Massachusetts in 1946, his 

 Masters degree in chemistry from the Uni- 

 versity of Oregon in 1948, and hLs Doctorate 

 at the UniversLty of Massachusetts in 1955. 



Eighty-Ninth Congress 

 (Second Session) 



Public bills and reso- 

 lutions which may directly 

 or indirectly affect the 

 fisheries and allied indus- 

 tries are reported upon. 

 Introduction, referral to 

 committees, pertinentleg- 

 islative actions by the 

 House and Senate, as well 

 as signature into law or 

 other final disposition are covered. 



COMMERCIAL FISHERY RESOURCES SURVEY: 

 S. Rept. 1202, Survey of Fishery Resources (June 2. 

 1966, report from the "Committee on Commerce, U. S. 

 Senate, 89th Congress, 2nd session, to accompany S. J . 

 Res . 29), 8 pp., printed. Committee reported favorably 

 with amendments. Discusses purpose, legislative his- 

 tory, need, costs, agency reports, and changes in ex- 

 isting law. 



