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elements essential to health that are not readily available in many 
foods of land origin, an even flow of fishery products from producer 
to consumer is essential to the public interest. r 
DOMESTIC RELATIONS 
COOPERATION WITH FEDERAL, STATE, AND OTHER AGENCIES 
Cooperation was given by members of the Bureau technological 
staff to chemists and bacteriologists of the Food and Drug Adminis- 
tration, U. S. Department of Agriculture, in connection with the de- 
velopment and application of tests on methods of determining the 
quality and constituents of various fishery products; and to the Ex- 
tension Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture in connection 
with the conduct of demonstrations and practical instruction on the 
preservation of fishery products and more complete utilization in. the 
diet of the excellent food value of fish and shellfish. 
Members of the economic and marketing staff of the Division of 
Fishery Industries cooperated with the Department of Labor in hold- 
ing conferences with fishermen’s unions and associations to settle 
disputes. The Division also worked with various Federal agencies 
in obtaining statistical data on our fisheries. These included the 
Bureau of Agricultural Economics, the health authorities in Wash- 
ington, D. C., and the Bureau of the Census. 
The Bureau has carried on cooperative investigations in techno- 
logical work with several colleges, universities, and other State insti- 
tutions. Outstanding among these are Washington State College, 
Pullman, Wash.; University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.; Uni- 
versity of Maryland and Maryland State Agricuitural Experiment 
Station, Coflege Park, Md. 
In the conduct of its statistical and marketing work some form of 
cooperation is given the Bureau in virtually every State where com- 
mercial fishing is prosecuted. This cooperation probably reached its 
reatest development in the States bordering on the Great Lakes and 
in the Pacific Coast and Chesapeake Bay States. 
The Division of Fish Culture maintains the closest liaison with the 
State fish and game departments and other Federal agencies con- 
cerned with the conservation of fish. There has been close contact 
between the Bureau’s representatives. the Bureau of Reclamation, 
and fisheries officials of the State of Washington with reference to 
the development of plans for the artificial propagation of the salmon 
run to be affected by the completion of the huge Grand Coulee Dam. 
There has been continued expansion of the policy of routing fish 
applications to the State departments for check and approval before 
deliveries are made. The natural consequence of this has been a 
development of arrangements for the States to deliver the fish with 
their own equipment and this has been practiced in a number of 
instances. 
The exchange of eggs and fish by the Bureau has been of mutual 
benefit, particularly in Michigan and Minnesota. In the Western 
States also, particularly in Oregon, the fish-cultural and fish-distribu- 
tion work is closely coordinated, with resultant economies to both the 
State and the Federal Governments. 
