200 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
byproducts manufacturers; supply firms; transportation companies; 
Federal, State, and municipal agencies and officials; unions; associa- 
tions; fishery publications; newspapers; magazines; libraries; banks; 
and statistical organizations. 
In addition to its activities In connection with the direction and 
administration of the service, the Washington office of the Fishery 
Market News Service prepares and disseminates periodic current 
reviews of fishery market information. These are issued in multilith 
form and distributed to fishermen, dealers in fishery commodities, and 
other interested parties. Between 10 and 15 of these reviews are 
prepared and disseminated each year. These reports, issued in a 
publication entitled “Fishery Market News,” include summarized 
data made available through the daily and monthly releases of the 
Fishery Market News Service on the movement, prices, current status 
of production, and stocks on hand of fishery commodities; articles 
relating to the fisheries prepared by members of the Bureau’s staff, 
members of the industry, or other parties; excerpts or abstracts from 
Bureau or other publications relating to the fisheries; and related 
information. 
During 1939 the work of the Fishery Market News Service was 
carried on under the immediate supervision of A. W. Anderson, Fishery 
Marketing Specialist, and the general digection of Fred F. Johnson, 
Assistant Chief of the Division, Assisting in this work, with head- 
quarters in Washington, D. C., but working both at the headquarters 
office and in the field, were H. E. Timmis, Fisheries Statistical and 
Marketing Agent, and P. W. Evans, Junior Fisheries Marketing 
Agent. 
FIELD CFFICES 
The locations of the offices of the Fishery Market News Service 
have been carefully chosen in order that they might not only provide a 
maximum service to the important producing, shipping, or consuming 
communities near their locations, but that they also be of greatest 
possible benefit to the industry as a whole. With these important 
considerations in mind, field offices have been established in New 
York, N. Y.; Boston, Mass.; Chicago, Ill.; Seattle, Wash.; Jackson- 
ville, Fla.; and New Orleans, La. 
Probably the most important of the newer features of the Fishery 
Market News Service has been the utilization of the radio for the 
dissemination of fishery market news. Following preliminary surveys 
and planning during the latter part of 1939, radio programs were 
inaugurated early in 1940, twice daily over station WWL at New 
Orleans and station WJJD at Chicago. A fishery program already 
being broadcast over station WHDH at Boston also was augmented 
with data made available each day from the Fishery Market News 
Service at Boston. The scripts for these programs are prepared in 
the local Fishery Market News offices and include timely data on 
production, receipts, or other factors of the movement or marketing 
functions of fishery commodities. 
A sample radio script for broadcasting Wednesday morning May 
29, 1940, as prepared by the Chicago office, follows: 
The following information is made available through the cooperation of the 
Chicago Market News Service of the United States Bureau of Fisheries: 
The Chicago Wholesale Market reports that on Tuesday, May 28, trading was 
generally light on all varieties with the exception of lake trout and whitefish. 
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