100 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE 



Security Administration has made preliminary arrangements for 

 transfer to the Bureau of the large hatchery unit at Welaka, Fla. 

 'riie Bureau has in return supplied fish from its various hatcheries for 

 stocking the waters of recreational projects. Close contact has been 

 maintained in the development of a bass hatchery at Arcadia, R. I., 

 and a program of joint development has been worked out. A hatchery 

 at Hoffman, N. C., was taken over by the Bureau under a similar 

 arrangement. 



The Bureau has been the recipient of aid from other Federal agen- 

 cies. Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees have contributed work at 

 various hatcheries. The Works Progress Administration can, in a 

 number of instances, be credited with improving the physical condi- 

 tion of the Bureau's properties and providing additional facilities 

 for fish production. 



During the past year, the Bureau's technologists gave courses in 

 canning fishery products to State extension service workers at the re- 

 quest of the United States Department of Agriculture. They also 

 rendered considerable assistance to the Bureau of Home Economics 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture in assembling data 

 on the chemical composition and food value of the leading commercial 

 species of fish and shellfish. These data are to be incorporated by the 

 Bureau of Home Economics in a revised publication on the composi- 

 tion of principal American food materials. Chemists of the Food and 

 Drug Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, con- 

 ferred at length with the Bureau's technologists for the purpose of 

 obtaining information on methods of determining fatty acid in fish 

 meal and the effect of the presence of relatively large amounts of fatty 

 acid in fish meal on its feeding value. The Bureau also cooperated 

 with the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation in connection with 

 its purchase of surplus fish for relief agencies and with the distribu- 

 tion of this fish to relief clients. The International Fisheries Com- 

 mission at Seattle, Wash., cooperated in the conduct of several phases 

 of the Bureau's economic and technological work. This included cer- 

 tain technical studies on halibut and halibut liver oil and the collec- 

 tion of economic and statistical data on the North Pacific halibut 

 fishery. 



The Division of Fishery Industries assisted the Rural Electrification 

 Administration in studies of the commercial fisheries in certain areas 

 of Virginia and North Carolina, and assisted the Bureau of Chemistry 

 and Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture in as- 

 sembling historical data relating to the domestic manufacture of fish 

 scrap and meal. 



The Bureau also has worked with various Federal agencies in ob- 

 taining statistical data on our fisheries. In a cooperative arrange- 

 ment, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, furnished statistics on the volume of cold-storage holdings of 

 fish and quantities frozen, and the health authorities in Washington, 

 D. C, assisted in obtaining data on the volume of fish handled at the 

 municipal fish wharf and market in this city. Cooperation was ac- 

 corded the Bureau of the Census in obtaining for that Bureau figures 

 on the volume of the quarterly production and holdings of fish oils 

 in the United States. 



