FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1933 6 



COOPERATION WITH THE STATES 



Because of the Division's recot^nition of its responsibilities for 

 service to the industry, ns indicated in the precedin*; para<2;raphs, it 

 has nia<le every effort to obtain the niaxinuim of accoiupUshnient 

 and extend its services to the fullest extent with the relatively small 

 appropriations and facihties available. Therefore, it has initiated, 

 encouraged, and fostered cooperation with the States in all branches 

 of the Division's various functions and activities. Obviously, this 

 method has brout^ht results witii a minimum of expense to the tax- 

 payer, commensurate with edicient performance. Cooperation with 

 the States has been especially helpful in the scientific investigations 

 of the Division. In tlie technological section, many State agencies 

 have cooperated in extending their facilities for the pro?ecution of 

 these studies. State universities, hospitals, agricultural experiu ent 

 stations, and other State institutions of research have contributed of 

 their personnel and laboratories in various projects. Especially has 

 tliis been true in the nutrition studies. Among the State institutions 

 cooperating in this work are the South Carolina Food Research 

 Commission and State Medical College, Charleston, S.C., the Massa- 

 chusetts State Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass., the Oliio State 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, the New York 

 State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 

 Washington State College and Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Pullman, Wash., the University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., and 

 the University of Maryland, College Park, Md. In addition to coop- 

 eration in nutrition investigations, the members of the stall" of the 

 Massachusetts State College, Amherst, Mass., rendered valuable aid 

 to the technological staff of the Division's laboratory at Gloucester, 

 Mass., in the furtherance of the various experimental projects wliich 

 this laboratory is carrying out. In tests of fishing gear, with respect 

 to measurement of mesh size of nets, cooperation lias been received 

 by our teclinological staff from the States bordering on the Great 

 Lakes. 



In certain marketing investigations, including the studies of the 

 grading of fish, the States of Virginia, North Carolina, Massachusetts, 

 J^Iaryland, and New Jersey either cooperated activelj'^ or gave valu- 

 able aid in some form. 



The Division places great dependence upon cooperative arrange- 

 ments with the various States in the collection of fishery statistics. 

 In the annual surveys of the fisheries of the Great Lakes and Pacific 

 Coast States such exceptional cooperation has been obtained from 

 State fishery agencies in recent years that it has been only necessary 

 for agents of the Bureau to conduct fragmentary surveys to supple- 

 ment the data available. liecently, the States of Maryland and 

 Virginia have adopted very complete statistical progran:s which 

 not only alleviate the work of our agents but also produce more 

 accur.'.te duta. 



The above States have been cited as instances of exceptional coop- 

 eration. However, nearly every State in wdiich commercial fishing 

 is prosecuted renders some type of cooperative service to this Bureau 

 in connection with its statistical surv^eys which makes possible the 

 survej-ing of much larger territories than would otherwise be possible. 



