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Fisheries supplies that Bureau with vital economic inforuiation. 

 In the collection of statistical data, the cooperation of the Bureau 

 of the Census, the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 

 the United States Tariff Commission, and othere is of considerable 

 value to this Bureau. 



In the technological field the Bureau has worked from time to 

 time in cooperation with ])ractically every scientific or technical 

 agency of the Federal Government. One example of this is the 

 cooperation with the Navy Department in developing chemical 

 preservatives for marine rope and cordage. Other examples are the 

 cooperation with the Bureaus of Animal Industry, Dairy Industry, 

 Biological Survey, Plant Industry, Food and Drug Administration, 

 and Chemistry and Soils in extending the uses of fishery products 

 in human, animal, and plant nutrition. 



During 1933, various new and emergency agencies of the Federal 

 Government made considerable use of the facilities of the Division 

 of Fishery Industries, including its technical, marketing, and sta- 

 tistical reports and the knowledge and experience of its personnel. 

 Such cooperation was rendered to the National Recovery Adminis- 

 tration, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, the Federal 

 Emergency Relief Administration, the Federal Surplus Relief Cor- 

 poratibn, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and others. Mem- 

 bers of the Bureau's staff were detailed first to the Agricultural 

 Adjustment Administration and later to the National Recovery 

 Administration to supervise and assist in the formulation of fishery 

 codes of fair competition under the National Industrial Recovery 

 Act. 



CONSERVATION OF WHALES 



The ^Multilateral Convention for the Regulation of Whaling agreed 

 to by the economic committee of the Council of the League of 

 Nations on September 24, 1931, yet awaits the signature of the 

 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to make 

 the convention effective. The convention has been ratified by the 

 following nations: United States, July 7, 1932; Norway. July 18, 

 1932; Union of South Africa, Januar}^ 11, 1933; Switzerland. Feb- 

 ruary 16, 1933 ; and Mexico, March 13, 1933. In addition to these 

 ratifications, the following have signified adherence to the conven- 

 tion: Nicaragua on April 30, 1932; Sudan, April 13. 1932; Monaco, 

 June 17, 1932; Brazil, November 21, 1932; and Egypt, January 

 25, 1933. 



LEGISLATION 



Several pieces of legislation affecting fishery matters and the 

 Bureau of Fisheries were enacted during the last session of the 

 Seventy-third Congress. A brief statement with respect to the more 

 important legislation enacted follows: 



Public, No. 166, approved April 16, 1934, amends sections 3 and 4 

 of an act of Congress entitled "An act for the protection and regula- 

 tion of the fisheries of Alaska ", approved June- 26, 1906, as amended 

 by the act of Congress approved June 6. 1924. The effect of these 

 amendments is to permit commercial fishing for king salmon in the 



