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stora2;o holdings of fish, and 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 Bureau 

 obtains figures on the vohinie of the quarterly holdings of fish oils 

 for the Bureau of the Census. During the past year, the Bureau 

 aided the National Recovery Administration in obtaining data on 

 methods for sharing the proceeds of a commercial fishing venture. 



COOPERATION WITH STATE AGENCIES 



In the conduct of its technological investigations, the Bureau has 

 always encouraged and fostered cooperation with the States. By 

 working in close conjunction with the members of the research stafls 

 of various State laboratories and institutions, we have been able to 

 increase the productivity of our relatively small technological staff 

 and have been able to carry out such cooperative investigations at 

 considerably less cost. During the past year, the following cooper- 

 ative investigations were conducted in the State institutions listed: 



A member of our technological stafl" was stationed in the laboratories 

 of the State Medical College, Charleston, S. C, where members of 

 the staft' of the State Medical College have given valuable cooperation 

 in a study of the mineral content of aquatic products. Dr. Roe E. 

 Remington and Dr. Kenneth M. Lynch participated in these inves- 

 tigations. 



At Alassachusetts State College, Amherst, Mass., laboratory facil- 

 ities were provided for our bacteriologist to study methods for 

 handling fish. Members of the Massachusetts State College staff 

 cooperating in these investigations were Doctors Fellers, Fuller, and 

 Bradley. 



At George Washington University, Washington, D. C, Dr. Leland 

 W. Parr, associate professor of bacteriology in the school of medicine, 

 assisted in the supervision of one of our cooperative investigations on 

 sponge disinfectants. 



At Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., Doctors H. S. Wilgus, Jr., 

 L. C. Norris, and G. F. Heuser, cooperated in making feeding tests 

 of fish meals experimentally prepared in our technological investiga- 

 tions. 



Dr. J. S. Carver of Washington State College, Pullman, Wash., 

 cooperated during the past year in carrying on tests with poultry in 

 the feeding of salmon oils and meals experimentally prepared in our 

 Seattle and iVlaska laboratories. 



The University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., placed space at the 

 disposal of members of our Seattle technological laboratory for the 

 conduct of certain byproducts investigations. 



All of the above cooperative investigations are discussed in detail 

 elsewhere in this report. 



In the conduct of its statistical research work, the Bureau also 

 obtains unusual cooperation from various States. The surveys of the 

 fisheries in the various States bordering on the Great Lakes, in the 

 Pacific Coast States, and in Maryland and Virginia, have been greatly 

 facilitated by special cooperation obtained from the State fishery 

 agencies in these States. V>'ith this aid, it is now only necessary for 

 the Bureau to conduct partial surveys in these States to supplement 

 the data available from the fishery agencies. 



