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The Bureau has been called on to make a survey in the Tennessee 

 Valley to aid the Tennessee Valley Authority in developinij^ a program 

 of conserviiiir lishery resources and establishing a hatchery system. 



The United States Army Engineers have given sympathetic con- 

 sideration to the Bureau's recommendations, with regard to develop- 

 ments in the upper Mississippi River area. This has been based upon 

 a hope that the dams comprising part of the 9-foot channel develop- 

 ment might be modified so as to provide extensive propagating jjont Is 

 for the production of fish native to that area. In connection with the 

 work on the Bonneville Dam (later discussed in more detail) the 

 War Department allotted funds from its construction appropriations 

 that the Bureau might carry on studies and design w^ays for passing 

 the run of salmon over this new dam. 



Through the cooperation of the Navy Department the annual 

 supplies for the Pribilof Islands w-ere forwarded from Seattle on 

 the U. S. S. Sirlus, and the season's take of sealskins was brought 

 out by this vessel on its return voyage. The United States Coast 

 Guard also rendered valuable assistance in maintaining a patrol 

 for the protection of the fur seals and in performing other services. 



The nature of the work performed by the National Park Service, 

 Forest Service, the Office of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Reclama- 

 tion, and the Bureau of Biological Survey gives them of necessity an 

 interest in the Bureau's fish-cultiiral work. The stocking of streams 

 and lakes under the control of the foregoing agencies was an im- 

 portant feature of their administration. Consequently, it has been 

 necessary to maintain closer contact with these establishments, and it 

 is felt that the Bureau has been of real service in numerous instances. 



While these cooperative relationships are of a more or less stand- 

 ing nature, there have been contacts with the newer emergency organ- 

 izations which offer prospects of mutual value. The Agricultural 

 Adjustment Administration, insofar as its work covers the utilization 

 of marginal lands, has called on the Bureau in several instances to 

 plan a program for fish propagation and the provision of angling. 



Various members of the Division of Fishery Industries assisted 

 other Federal agencies in the conduct of technological and economic 

 studies relative to the fishery industry. In this connection special 

 aid was rendered the National Recovery Administration in the devel- 

 opment of fishery codes, a member of the Bureau being on detail to 

 that Administration until October 1, 1934, to supervise and assist 

 in this work; the Department of Agriculture^ in various nutrition 

 studies; the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, in fishery 

 relief projects; the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, in supplying 

 data on the fishery food situation; and the Reconstruction Finance 

 Corporation, on loans to the fishery industry. One member of the 

 Bureau has been appointed a member of the food survey committee 

 of the Departent of Agriculture, which investigates the supply and 

 price situation of surplus foods. 



Tlie Bureau has had the cooperation of the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Economics in the collection of statistics on the volume of cold-storage 

 holdings of fish; and the cooperation of the health authorities in 

 Washington, D. C, in obtaining the volume of fish handled at the 

 Municipal Fish Wharf and Market in this city. In another instance 

 the Burtiu obtained figures on the volume of the quarterly holdings 

 of fish oils for the Bureau of the Census. 



