FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1939 187 
Part 1. OPERATIONS OF THE DIVISION 
COOPERATION WITH OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES 
It has been the established policy of the Bureau of Fisheries, and 
of this Division, to cooperate with other Federal agencies wherever 
the activities are such that mutual information can be exchanged 
with advantage, or where, by working cooperatively, the results of 
such mutual work may be furthered or its ends made more effective 
and valuable. 
Thus, the technologists of this Division gave courses in canning 
fishery products to State Extension Service workers at the request of 
and with the cooperation of the Extension Service of the United 
States Department of Agriculture. Demonstrations and practical 
instruction on other related subjects pertaining to the preservation 
of fishery products, and a better utilization of the excellent food 
value of fish, were given to State Extension Service workers through 
and with the cooperation of the Extension Service of the United States 
Department of Agriculture. In some cases, students or State Hx- 
tension Service workers were detailed to the Bureau’s laboratories 
in Washington, D. C., for instruction, and in other cases one of our 
technologists visited some of the States for this purpose. 
Cooperation was also given by members of our technological staff 
to chemists and bacteriologists of the Food and Drug Administration, 
United States Department of Agriculture, at various times in con- 
nection with the development and application of tests or methods of 
determining the quality and constituents of various fishery products. 
The Department of Labor, through several of its divisions, has been 
helpful during the past year in connection with the Division’s studies 
of the retail marketing of fish as well as studies of labor conditions in 
the fisheries. This Division’s staff also assisted and was aided by 
the Maritime Commission and the Maritime Labor Board in studies 
of fisheries employment. Advice and assistance has been furnished 
the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation in connection with its 
programs of buying fish for distribution to relief clents. The Food 
and Drug Administration of the Department of Agriculture has co- 
operated with this Division in furnishing current statistics on the pack 
of canned shrimp and allied data. Cooperation has been continued 
by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in furnishing 
monthly and annual statistics of foreign trade in fishery products, 
while the local offices of the Bureau of the Customs has furnished the 
several Market News offices of the Division daily statistics of the 
imports of fishery commodities. Assistance has been accorded by 
several of the economic and technological staff of the Division to the 
Federal Trade Commission in its work in connection with the prepa- 
ration and promulgation of trade practice rules for the sardine and 
tuna industries. cor 
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