FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1939 yaa 
now in operation in various buildings of the university, and in the 
Commerce Building at Washington, D. C. This will provide unified 
facilities for the study of problems facing the fishery industry of the 
Atlantic coast. 
The work of the College Park Laboratory is in three principal fields: 
First, chemical and engineering studies on the preservation and 
utilization of fishery products; second, nutritional and pharmaco- 
logical studies with fishery products ; and third, bacteriological and 
sanitation studies involving fishery products. 
SEATTLE, WASH. 
Various improvements were made at the technological laboratory 
at Seattle in order to increase our facilities for chemical studies in 
fishery products. Among these were the construction and installa- 
tion of a special fume hood for exhausting inflammable solvent 
vapors; a 4- by 8-foot chemical laboratory table with center sink, water, 
gas, and electrical services; a 2- by 10-foot wall-type titration and 
apparatus table; and several work tables. 
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA 
In view of the necessity for technical research from the national 
standpoint, plans have been prepared by the Bureau for the establish- 
ment of a fully equipped fishery products laboratory in Ketchikan, 
at a cost of $50,000, made possible by an allotment from the Public 
Works Administration. This laboratory will be maintained in coopera- 
tion with the Territory, a sum of $20,000 having been appropriated 
by the Territorial Legislature for this purpose. The Territorial con- 
tribution will be administered by the Fisheries Experimental Com- 
mission appointed by the Governor of Alaska in accordance with the 
provisions of the Territorial Act. Establishment of a laboratory of 
this type in Alaska will fill the pressing need for a greater fund of 
technical knowledge regarding the utilization of the fishery harvest 
of Alaska and will, in effect, double the Bureau’s facilities for tech- 
nological research on the Pacific coast. 
The research program of the Alaska Laboratory will be concerned 
with increasing the utilization of fishery waste materials now being 
discarded; improvement of methods for handling, preserving, and 
marketing the various species of fish and shellfish now taken commer- 
cially for consumption as food; and the development of new and 
useful products from species of fish and shellfish present in Alaskan 
waters which heretofore have not been commercially utilized to any 
extent; all having the primary aim of increasing the value of the fishery 
industries in the T erritory and stimulating and. extending employment. 
MAYAGUEZ, P. R. 
As indicated previously, plans also call for the establishment of a 
fishery products laboratory in Mayaguez, made possible by an allot- 
ment of $25,000 from the Public Works Administration. Here studies 
will be conducted on fish production, preserving, and marketing, as 
related to the fishery industry in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. 
