STUDY OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON 4 JUN 16 Copy 165 MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION MARCH 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, AND 15, 1955 ཆུ་ཡིས་ཤི་ Printed for the use of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries 1314. 59878 UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1955 COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES HERBERT C. BONNER, North Carolina, Chairman FRANK W. BOYKIN, Alabama T. A. THOMPSON, Louisiana T. JAMES TUMULTY, New Jersey E. L. BARTLETT, Alaska THOR C. TOLLEFSON, Washington HORACE SEELY-BROWN, JR., Connecticut WILLIAM K. VAN PELT, Wisconsin JOHN H. RAY, New York WILLIAM S. MAILLIARD, California RALPH E. CASEY, Chief Counsel II HBP 30 June, 155 Anderson, Andrew W., Chief, Branch of Commercial Fisheries, Fish Day, Albert M., assistant to the Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, Culbreath, Jack C., assistant Chief, Division of Information. Farley, John L., Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of Green, Dorr D., Chief, Branch of Predator and Rodent Control, Fish Hagen, William, Jr., assistant Chief, Branch, Game Fish and Hatch- eries, Fish and Wildlife Service ___ Linduska, Dr. Joseph P., Chief, Branch of Game Management, Fish McBroom, James T., coordinator, Office of River Basin Studies, Fish Meehean, Dr. O. Lloyd, assistant to the Director of Technical Services, Rutherford, Robert M., Chief, Branch of Federal Aid, Fish and Wild- Salyer, J. Clark, Chief, Branch of Wildlife Refuges, Fish and Wildlife Stevenson, James O., assistant coordinator, Office of River Basin Studies, Fish and Wildlife Service - Suomela, Arnie J., Assistant Director, Fish and Wildlife Service--- Swift, Ernest F., Assistant Director, Fish and Wildlife Service. Thompson, Seton H., Chief, Branch of Alaska Fisheries, Fish and Walford, Dr. Lionel A., Chief, Branch of Fishery Biology, Fish and Wright, Stillman, Acting Chief, Office of Foreign Activities__. Farley, John L., letter, to Hon. Herbert C. Bonner, re striped bass, with enclosure, second progress report of Atlantic States cooperative striped bass program, by Edward C. Ramey--- Federal fish hatcheries closed and established during fiscal years Fishery license and business taxes collected by the Territory of 213 Saltonstall-Kennedy appropriation, fiscal year 1955, analysis of 146 30 STUDY OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1955 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES, Washington, D. C. The committee met at 10 a. m., pursuant to call, in room 219, Old House Office Building, Hon. Herbert C. Bonner (chairman), presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will be in order. This morning we start a series of hearings with the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior. The first witness will be the Director, the Honorable John L. Farley. STATEMENT OF JOHN L. FARLEY, DIRECTOR, FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR The CHAIRMAN. Will you give your full name and background for the record? Mr. FARLEY. John L. Farley, Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of Interior. We appreciate, sir, this opportunity to tell you of our Service and to discuss some of the problems and get the benefit of the exchange of information that we will receive from this opportunity. We propose first today to cover those things of rather general application and interest, and then, as the opportunity comes in the additional sessions, to deal with the details of our operation. I think that perhaps it would be worth while to review for a moment the background of the present Fish and Wildlife Service. The first agency was created as a Bureau of Fisheries with a Commissioner of Fisheries back in 1871, primarily as a scientific service for the Federal Government. As time went on the need for control developed and the needs of management developed. So those activities were added to the old Bureau of Fisheries, which remained as an independent agency for some years until, I believe, in 1903 it became a part of the then created Department of Labor and Commerce. Later in 1913, when the labor and commerce activities were separated, it became a bureau of the Department of Commerce. It continued in that Department until 1939 when, under Reorganization Plan No. 2, it was transferred to the Department of the Interior. The other branch of the present Fish and Wildlife Service's major activities was created originally as a division or a part of the Division of Entomology in the Department of Agriculture. That occurred in 1 |