June 11, 1941 
Mr. Roger W. Harrison 
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Servioe 
2725 Montlake Boulevard 
Seattle, Washington, 
Dear Roger* 
A week ago I wrote you a letter but did not mail it because 
on the heels of writing it I got one from you which made me want to 
make some changes. I haven't made them in that letter, but the addi- 
tional information that you give me regarding the progress of the 
expedition makes me feel that if you do get a continuance and can 
carry on certain phases of the work in Seattle, that material should 
be retained there, but that all else, except what is needed, should 
come here so that customary records may be kept of its distribution 
and a check-up can be made whenever desired. I am glad the prospects 
of a continuation seem so bright. 
If you get a continuance I would urge you to concentrate 
more on tangle nets. Try to beat the Japs at their own game, as it 
were; see what can be done with very long strings of nets such as 
Trafton has seen the Japs operate. From what I gather from your 
report, the tangle nets are 12101*0 s o »L o o "fc i & o.3fic!. loss 
destructive of moulting and unutilizable crabs. The females apparently 
remain soft longer and more of them are soft at any one time than 
the males, and that is just the group that you want to protect and 
which the tangle net seems to fail to get. 
If the Borothy stays ih the Bering Sea it would be well to 
go as far afield as possible, even up to the Prifilofs and, as you 
suggest, toward St. Lawrence Island. She could well put in the 
balance of the season up there, but, by the same token^ you should 
also have one vessel on the south or east side of the peninsula. 
But there, as I suggest for further work in the Bering Sea, tangle 
nets should, if possible, be made the chief fishing gear. This 
would be particularly the case in the Shumagin area, which Kelson 
gave up in disgust because of the rough bottom which tore up the 
trawls. Somebody ought to fish out on the Davidson Bank some time. 
