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shad in the Potomac and Hudson Rivers, and the catch of alewivcs 

 in the Potomac River during 1932; transactions on the sponge 

 exchange at Tarpon Springs, Fia., during 1932; vohime of fishery 

 products handled at the municipal fish wharf and market, Washing- 

 ton, D.C., during 1932, and the volume of United States imports and 

 exports of fishery products during 1932, furnished by the Bureau of 

 Foreign and Domestic Commerce. 



In the above surveys the division continued to receive cooperation 

 from many of the State fishery agencies, which aided materially in 

 the work. 



STATISTICAL AREAS 



At the nineteenth meeting held at Washington, D.C., on October 

 20 and 21, 1932, of the North American Council on Fishery Investiga- 



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tions, consisting of representatives from Canada, Newfoundland, 

 France, and the United States, there were adopted uniform statistical 



