76 V. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



FOREWORD 



This report constitutes a summary of the activities of the Division 

 of Fishery Industries as well as an annual review on fishery statistics 

 oi the United States. As its name indicates, this division of the 

 Bureau is concerned with the activities and welfare of the commercial 

 fishery and fishery industries, the trade in fishery products, and the 

 fish canning and preserving industries. Its functions include the 

 collection and publication of fishery statistics, the conducting of 

 market surveys, the prosecution of research designed to solve the 

 technical problems of the industry, and the dissemination of author- 

 itative and practical information to the fishery industries and the 

 public. Results of technological investigations and marketing 

 .studies are published in separate documents as each project is com- 

 pleted. The information obtained from statistical surveys is pub- 

 lished in part 2 of this report, which includes all the detailed statis- 

 tical information that has become available since the issuance of the 

 previous report,^ together with such summarized statements and 

 interpretations of the statistics as are deemed significant and useful. 

 In line with the general policy of economy of the Federal Government 

 during the past year, the division's funds and personnel were greatly 

 curtailed during this period. This made it necessary to curtail our 

 economic and technological work and also made it impossible to 

 conduct statistical surveys of the fisheries in several geographical 

 sections. In the preparation of this report, members of the division's 

 staff have taken part and their assistance is aj)preciatively acknowl- 

 edged. 



Part I. OPERATIONS OF THE DIVISION 



COOPERATION WITH OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES 



As in 1933, various members of the division's staff assisted other 

 Federal agencies in the conduct of technological, economic, and 

 statistical work or studies having a bearing on the fishery industry. 

 Such cooperation was rendered especially to the National Recovery 

 Administration, the Department of Agriculture, the Federal Emer- 

 gency Relief Administration, the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, 

 Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and others. The writer con- 

 tinued his detail with the National Recovery Administration, begun 

 in August 1933, until September 30, 1934, as deputy administrator 

 in charge of fishery codes, and on October 1, returned to the Bureau, 

 resuming his regular duties. Since his return to the Bureau, the 

 writer was appointed a member of the Food Survey Committee of 

 the Department of Agriculture. This committee investigates the 

 supply and price situation of surplus agricultural and fishery products 

 to guide the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation in making purchases 

 of surplus food commodities. Considerable assistance was given 

 the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in connection with 

 various relief activities among fishermen. 



Also, the Bureau has cooperated with various Federal agencies in 

 obtaining statistical data on our fisheries. The Bureau has the 

 cooperation of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Department 

 of Agriculure, in the collection of statistics on the volume of cold- 



' Fishery Industries of the United States, 1933. By R. H. Fiedler, John Ruel Manning, and F. F. John- 

 son, Appendix I to the Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1934, pp. 1-237. 



