EXECUTIVE AGENCIES ON FISHERIES (Hearings on Office of Price Administration heretofore EXECUTIVE HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES OF THE MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES HOUSE OF REPR CONGRESS SEVENTY-EIGHTH SECOND SESSION ON H. Res. 52 SEP 24 1944 DOCUMENT A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING INVESTIGATION OF MARINE AND FISHERIES 62788 JUNE 15, 26, AND JULY 11, 1944 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1944 COMMITTEE ON THE MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES SCHUYLER OTIS BLAND, Virginia, Chairman II IRVING G. MCCANN, Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Full Committee 1. Executive Order No. 9204_ 2. Executive Order No. 9280_. 3. W. F. O. 52 (Food Directive No. 2) W. F. O. 52 (Food Directive No. 2, Amendment 1). 4. Organization Chart__ 5. Regional Supervisor's Instructions on Fresh Fish Survey6. Secretary of the Interior Order No. 1787_ 201 206 7. Secretary of the Interior Order No. 1838. 211 8. Secretary of the Interior Order No. 1925_ 214 9. Secretary of the Interior Order No. 1942_ 219 10. Halibut Allocation (Secretary of the Interior Order No. 1956) 222 11. Fishermen and shore workers, age 18 to 25 years, whose removal would seriously reduce the production of fishery products-- 227 12. Chart of Fish and Wildlife Service (Department of the Interior). 13. Chart of Division of Fishery Biology 228 _facing 229 14. Chart of Division of Fishery Industries 15a. Pilchard Chart_. 230 20. Secretary of the Interior reply to Association of Pacific Fisheries. 21. Map showing stations of Fish and Wildlife Service... 243 _facing 243 IV EXECUTIVE AGENCIES ON FISHERIES THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1944 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON THE MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES, SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE FISHERIES, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met in room 228, Old House Office Building, at 1 p. m., the Honorable J. Hardin Peterson (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representative J. Hardin Peterson (chairman). Also present: Irving G. McCann, special assistant to the chairman of the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Charles W. Porter, War Food Administration; E. A. Power, Fish and Wildlife Service; L. S. Christey, Office of the Coordinator of Fisheries; Elmer Higgins, Office of the Coordinator of Fisheries; Charles E. Jackson, Office of the Coordinator of Fisheries; Charles A. Carter, United States Tariff Commission; Hugh M. Frampton, Washington, D. C.; H. Thomas Austern, Washington, D. C. Mr. PETERSON. The hearing will come to order. At this time will all witnesses raise their right hands? Do you and each of you solemnly swear that the evidence you will give in this hearing will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? (All witnesses responded in the affirmative.) TESTIMONY OF CHARLES E. JACKSON, ASSISTANT DEPUTY COORDINATOR OF FISHERIES · Mr. McCANN. Please state your name. Mr. MCCANN. Your official position? Mr. JACKSON. Assistant Deputy Coordinator of Fisheries. Mr. MCCANN. Are you associated in any way with Fish and Wildlife? Mr. JACKSON. I am also Assistant Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Mr. MCCANN. How long have you been in the Fish and Wildlife Service? Mr. JACKSON. About 11 years, including its preceding organization, the Bureau of Fisheries. Mr. MCCANN. What are your duties as Assistant Director? Mr. JACKSON. I am primarily responsible for fisheries administration. Mr. MCCANN. Do you mean by that the commercial fisheries administration? 1 |