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culture Extension Service, technologists in the Bureau’s Washingtom 
laboratories gave courses in canning fishery products to State Exten- 
sion Service workers. Members of the economic and technological 
staffs of the Division of Fishery Industries worked with the Interna- 
tional Fisheries Commission, Seattle, Wash., on various problems of 
mutual interest. The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce co- 
operated in obtaining data on the extension of the cooperative move- 
ment among fishermen and information on the grading and standard- 
ization of fish in many foreign countries. 
COOPERATION WITH STATES AND OTHER AGENCIES 
In furtherance of the original plan, the fourth annual meeting of 
the National Planning Council of Commercial and Game Fish Com- 
missioners was held in Chicago on April 28, 1937, at which Commis- 
sioner Frank T. Bell presided. 
The council was organized in 1934 to coordinate the fishery conser- 
vation work of the State and Federal Governments, to achieve maxi- 
mum fish protection at minimum cost, to apply efficiency methods in 
the distribution and planting of fish, and to exchange information 
of mutual interest and value to fish culturists. Among the chief bene- 
fits of this institution has been the elimination of overlapping in 
fish-distribution activities. 
A fishery committee was appointed at the annual meeting of the 
National Association of Marketing Officials, held in October 1936, 
in Nashville, Tenn. The committee, which consists of prominent 
marketing officials in important fish-producing States, has been estab- 
lished to study the various aspects of the marketing of fishery 
products. 
In the conduct of its statistical research work, some form of coop- 
eration is given the Bureau in about every State where commercial 
fishing is prosecuted. This cooperation on statistical work probably 
has reached its greatest development in the Lake States, the Pacific 
Coast States, and in Maryland and Virginia. 
In its technological work, the Bureau has carried on cooperative 
investigations with several colleges and universities and other State 
institutions. In these cooperative projects the scientific staffs and 
other facilities of these agencies were available to the Bureau’s staff. 
Among the institutions cooperating in these investigations are: State 
Medical College, Charleston, S. C.; George Washington University, 
Washington, D. C.; Washington State College, Pullman, Wash.; 
University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.; University of Maryland, 
und the Maryland State Agricultural Experiment Station, College 
Park, Md., Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md., and the 
Massachusetts State Department of Agriculture, Boston, Mass. 
Inasmuch as agreements or informal working arrangements are in 
effect with most of the States relative to the propagation and distri- 
bution of fish, there was but limited extension of cooperative rela- 
tionships in this field. By agreement with the State of Ohio, fish 
cultural work at Put in Bay was consolidated with the State utiliz- 
ing the Bureau’s properties by accepting the responsibility for the 
actual propagation work. In Maine and Massachusetts, the State au- 
thorities cooperated in the resumption of lobster propagation at the 
Bureau’s Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and Gloucester, Mass., stations. 

