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that State budgets have been reduced proportional to Federal 

 budgets for these projects, this cooperation has been very effective 

 and is greatly appreciated. 



Another source of most valuable cooperation is provided b}'' educa- 

 tional institutions, chiefly State universities. Laboratory quarters 

 for the Bureau's investigatiA'e staffs are provided by Harvard Uni- 

 versity as headquarters for North and Middle Atlantic fishery 

 investigations. University of Michigan has headquarters for the 

 Great Lakes fishery investigations, University of Utah for fishery 

 investigations in the intermountain section. University of Missouri 

 for investigation of interior waters, and Stanford University for 

 California trout investigations. The Wisconsin Natural History 

 Geologic Survey has cooperated with the Bureau in many ways. 

 Yale University, Cornell University, the University of Washington, 

 and the Oregon State Agricultural College have likewise provided 

 quarters or others facilities for investigative work. 



In the technological work of the Bureau many State agencies have 

 cooperated in extending their facilities for the prosecution of these 

 studies. State universities, hospitals, agricultural experiment sta- 

 tions, and other State institutions of research have contributed per- 

 sonnel and laboratories in various projects. Among the institutions 

 represented in this work during the past year were the South Carolina 

 Food Itesearch Commission and State Medical College, the Massa- 

 chusetts State Agricultural College, the New York State College of 

 Agriculture, Washington State College and Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, the University of Washington, George Washington Univer- 

 sity, and the University of Maryland. 



The value of this type of cooperation in the scientific fields cannot 

 be overestimated. The Bureau's investigators receive, in addition to 

 actual laboratory and office quarters, the use of university libraries, 

 advice and assistance from the university faculties, and many other 

 courtesies which stimulate a community of interest in technical prob- 

 lems of the fisheries. The universities thus contribute to research of 

 practical value and application to their own communities, and their 

 graduate students receive stimulation and advice in research problems 

 similar to those of the Bureau and frequently part-time or temporary 

 employment in Bureau projects, all of which contributes to the 

 progress of aquatic biology and technology in the United States. 



In the Bureau's statistical research of the fisheries of the Great 

 Lakes and Pacific Coast States and of the States of Maryland and 

 Virginia such exceptional cooperation has been obtained from State 

 fishery agencies in recent years that the Bureau has conducted only 

 Jimited surveys to supplement the data available from the States. 



COOPEBATION WITH OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES 



The Bureau's program has always been closely correlated with work 

 of the various Bureaus of the Department of Commerce, from which 

 it secures assistance of various kinds, chiefly relating to the promotive 

 aspects of commercial fishery investigations. 



.V t the close of the year plans were l3eing developed for one project 

 in North Carolina whereby a hatchery would be constructed and 

 turned over to the Bureau for subsequent operation, with the object 

 of providing fish for the surrounding territory. 



