FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1938 173 
COOPERATION WITH FISHERY ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
The Division of Fishery Industries offered its fullest assistance during 
the year to the Fishery Advisory Committee for the Department of 
Commerce. Facts and figures upon the scope and conditions of the 
fisheries are not readily apparent except through the data collected 
and compiled by the Bureau of Fisheries and for this reason the success 
of the meetings of this Committee is partially reliant upon cooperative 
assistance of the Bureau’s staff. 
During the fiscal year the Fishery Advisory Committee held two 
official meetings. The first of these occurred on October 5, 1938, in 
Boston. This meeting was held in conjunction with the National 
Fishery Convention which was held in Boston during the first week of 
October. The division contributed to the deliberations of this 
meeting, furnishing summaries of activities and problems as well as 
assisting in the program of the meeting and in its publicity. 
Assistance was also furnished the Committee in its second meeting, 
which was held on January 30 and 31, 1939, in the Department of 
Commerce Building in Washington. The full technical personnel of 
the Washington area was made available for consultation at this 
meeting. An outline of fishery problems and the Bureau’s activities 
in relation thereto provided the foundation of the Committee’s 
program. 
The meetings resulted in the passage of resolutions, concerning the 
operations of the Division of Fishery Industries, which endorsed the 
enlargement of the Market News Service; recommended a thorough 
study of retail fish marketing; and urged the establishment of an 
extension service and the making of quality and consumption studies 
by the Bureau; 
COOPERATIVE PAN-AMERICAN FISHERY RESEARCH 
At the request of Dr. Ernest Gruening, Director of the Division of 
Territories and Island Possessions of the Department of the Interior, 
the writer was detailed as adviser on fishery matters to accompany the 
President’s Educational Commission to Puerto Rico. The commis- 
sion conducted a study of the University of Puerto Rico with the 
view of developing this university into a Pan-American institution. 
This project was recommended to President Roosevelt by his Com- 
mittee on Cooperation with Latin America, and was approved by him. 
The commission was headed by President Isaiah Bowman of The 
Johns Hopkins University. : : 
Our neighbors to the south are constantly asking us for assistance in 
the field of fisheries. In view of this, it appeared desirable to explore 
the place and need for a school of fisheries or fishery research laboratory 
at the proposed Pan-American institution in Puerto Rico which could 
serve as a focal point for fishery education to students from the 
Americas and the West Indies. 
The development of a fishery school or research laboratory also 
would round out a program of scientific cooperation with Latin 
America which already has had its beginnings in a School of Tropical 
Medicine. This school is conducted under the joint auspices of the 
University of Puerto Rico and Columbia University. Plans are also 
under way for the development of graduate schools of tropical forestry 
and tropical agriculture. 
