Annual Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce for the Fiscal Year Ended ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 - Fisheries |
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1-pound Alewives Apparatus Atlantic baits or snoods Black bass Bluefish boats and shore Brook trout Bureau Butterfish cannery Carp catch Catfish Catfish and bullheads Clams coast coho commercial cooperation Crabs Crappie Croaker district Eels eggs fingerlings fish fishermen fishery Fishery Industries fishery products Flounders Fresh fillets frozen fur-seal Gill nets haddock Hake halibut hatchery included increase investigations Item King whiting Lake trout largemouth lobster Loch Leven Loch Leven trout mackerel Motor Mullet Number Number Number OPERATING UNITS Otter trawls oysters Pacific Packing percent Pike plants Pollock Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Value Pounds Pribilof Islands Quantity Value Rainbow trout River Sablefish salted Sea bass sea trout season Seattle shad shellfish shrimp Soft and peelers South southeast Alaska spawning species Square yards Squeteagues Squeteagues or sea station statistics streams Striped bass studies Sturgeon Sunfish tons Value Pounds Value vessels Whitefish Yards at mouth Yellow perch
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Page 151 - Our technologists also rendered considerable assistance to chemists of the Bureau of Home Economics of the United States Department...
Page 145 - Gruening, director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions of the Department of the Interior.
Page 74 - Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1937." Sec. 2. When used in this Act— (a) Convention: The word "Convention" means the Convention between the United States and Canada for the Preservation of the Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, signed at Ottawa on the 29th day of January 1937, and shall include the regulations of the International Fisheries Commission promulgated thereunder. (b) Commission: The word " Commission " means the International Fisheries Commission provided...
Page 58 - States or under the laws of any State, Territory, or district thereof, or for any person not a native of Alaska, to catch or kill, or attempt to catch or kill, except with rod, spear, or gaff, any fish of any kind or species whatsoever in any of the waters of Alaska under the jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 497 - Thej' also rendered considerable assistance to the Bureau of Home Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture in assembling data on the chemical composition and food value of the leading commercial species of fish and shellfish.
Page 497 - Sockeye Salmon Fishery Act of 1947 is designed to carry into effect the provisions of the convention between the United States and Canada for the protection, preservation, and extension of the sockeye salmon fishery of the Fraser River system.
Page 497 - Two public auction sales of fur-seal skins were held at St. Louis, Mo., in the fiscal year 1938.
Page 75 - An act for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act of Congress of June 6, 1924, entitled "An Act for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes," is amended so that it will read as follows: "SECTION 1.
Page 58 - That it shall be unlawful for any person not a citizen of the United States, or who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and is not a bona fide resident therein, or for any company, corporation, or association not organized or authorized to transact business under the laws of any State, Territory, or district thereof, or for any person not a native...
Page 58 - Provided further, That in the area embracing Bristol Bay and the arms and tributaries thereof, no person shall at any time fish for or take salmon with a stake net or set net, for commercial purposes, unless such person shall be a citizen of the United States and shall have theretofore continuously resided for the period of at least two years within said area; but for the salmon fishing season of 1938, residence within said area continuously after June 1, 1937, shall be deemed sufficient compliance...