United States. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries

The United States Bureau of Commercial Fisheries was a federal agency rather than an individual author. It emerged in 1956, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was reorganized into the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, and it inherited the long institutional history of the earlier U.S. Fish Commission and Bureau of Fisheries.

Its work focused on the science, economics, and administration of commercial fishing. Records preserved by the National Archives show the bureau handled reports, correspondence, program files, and operating-unit records across areas such as resource management and industrial research, reflecting how broad its role was in federal fisheries policy and research.

That legacy continued after the creation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, when federal marine fisheries responsibilities moved into what became NOAA Fisheries. Because this is a government body and not a personal author, there is no single life story or portrait to present here.