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The Division also has worked with various Federal agencies in 
obtaining statistical data on our fisheries. In a cooperative arrange- 
ment, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Department of Agri- 
culture, furnished statistics on the volume of cold-storage holdings 
of fish and quantities frozen, and the health authorities in Washington, 
D. C., assisted in obtaining data on the volume of fish handled at the 
Municipal Fish Wharf and Market in this city. Cooperation was 
accorded the Bureau of the Census in obtaining for that Bureau figures 
on the volume of the quarterly production and holdings of fish oils in 
the United States. 
In addition to the specifically enumerated instances of cooperation 
with other Federal agencies cited above, which are on a continuing 
basis or were of a more detailed nature, it should be stated that a 
very close relationship exists between this Division and many of those 
Federal agencies whose duties require an interest in fish in particular, 
foodstuffs or feedstuffs in general, or in various marine activities. 
The staff of the Division is in almost daily contact with some one or 
more of these Federal agencies in the exchange of information of 
inestimable value to the scientific work of the Federal establishment. 
COOPERATION WITH STATE AGENCIES 
The Division has continued to encourage cooperative relations with 
State institutions and agencies in the conduct of researches and investi- 
gations of mutual interest. This policy has resulted in expanded 
programs and decreased costs. During 1939 the following cooperative 
investigations with various States were conducted: 
Our Seattle technological laboratory staff has continued its close 
cooperative relation with members of the faculty and staff of the 
University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., as in past years. 
The University of Maryland and the Maryland State Agricultural 
Experiment Station, College Park, Md., continued their excellent 
cooperative relations with our College Park technological laboratory 
staff. The various departments of animal husbandry of the Maryland 
State Agricultural Experiment Station continued their cooperation in 
the conduct of feeding tests of fishery byproducts in the rations of 
farm animals. The members of the staffs of these two institutions 
who have worked closely with our College Park technological staff are 
Dr. L. B. Broughton, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; 
Dr. W. C. Supplee and Mr. L. E. Bopst of the Chemistry Depart- 
ment; Dr. L. H. James, Head of the Department of Bacteriology; and 
Prof. M. H. Berry, of the Dairy Department. These various coopera- 
tive studies are described in greater detail elsewhere in this report. 
As discussed in the 1938 report, the Bureau’s technologists continued 
their cooperation with the Virginia State Division of Markets in 
extending and improving State marketing grades for fishery products 
sold in that State. 
In the conduct of its statistical and market research work, the 
Bureau obtains unusual cooperation from various States. The sta- 
tistical surveys of the fisheries in the various States bordering on the 
Great Lakes, the Pacific Coast States, and Maryland and Virginia 
have been greatly facilitated by the cooperation obtained from the 
fishery agencies in these States. With this aid it is now only neces- 
sary for the Bureau to conduct partial surveys in these States to 
supplement the data available from the fishery agencies. 
