Pish and Wildlife Service 
Technological Lab oratory 
2725 Hontlake Boulevard 
8 settle , • ashlogtoa 
November 5, 1941. 
a® Director, 
Pish and Wildlife Service, 
Washington, D. C. 
Attention 5% B« R. Fiedler 
Dear Sirs 
This is to advise you of our present plans for reporting the 
results of the . JLsska Crab Investigation. 
la discussions with the various members of the crab investi- 
gation staff as to the outline and scope of a suitable report, it 
soon became apparent that a report involving all the biological 
data and the practical data, including the canning information, 
would beeo vs rather unwieldy, and might lose Its biolo leal sig- 
nificance and quit© likely its practical value on account of the 
practical being confused rith the theoretical. lurthepHore , much 
of the material that would, go into a biological report would be 
of little interest to fishermen, yet it would take a considerable 
amount of tia© to work up and, thus, preparing one complete report 
would mean that a report could not be finished for quit® a few 
months and that by the time it was printed probably a year or so 
would have passed. 
Accordingly, we have decided, that the most advisable proce- 
dure would b© to have two reports. One, in which we would take 
each particular area and discuss our results in that area, fishing 
methods, shedding, and seasonal movements , would b© a practical 
discussion of our findings and would also contain information re- 
garding the relative merit of different types of fishing gear and 
the data at hand with regard to canning studios. In other words, 
this report would be essentially a manual of current information 
on the suitability of each location as a source of king crab for 
commercial use. This first report will bo prepared largely by 
”ir* Carlson and hr. Christey, tilth the advise of the biologists 
whore necessary. . © would propose to have this out within a very 
