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perience of other Federal agencies where they could assist by furnish- 

 ing data or counsel in the work of this Division. 



More specifically, both the economics and technological staffs co- 

 operated with the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation in con- 

 nection with its purchase for relief agencies of surplus fish, and with 

 the distribution of this fish to relief clients. The economics staff aided 

 by determining the quantities and location of such stocks of fish to 

 facilitate purchase, while the technological staff cooperated in as- 

 sembling data on, and in conducting practical demonstrations of, the 

 nutritive value of fishery products and fish cookery. 



The tecluiologists of the Division gave courses in canning fishery 

 products to State Extension Service workers at the request of the State 

 Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. 



Our technologists also rendered considerable assistance to chemists 

 of 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 composition of principal American food 

 materials. 



Chemists of the Food and Drug Administration, United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, conferred at length with our 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. 



Assistance was given by the statistical and economics staffs to mem- 

 bers of the Rural Electrification Administration in connection with the 

 importance of the commercial fisheries in certain areas of Virginia and 

 North Carolina in which that agency was conducting studies. 



Our economists and statisticians were of considerable assistance 

 to members of the staff of the Bureau of Chemistr}^ and Soils in their 

 assembly of historical data, especially of a statistical nature, relating 

 to the domestic manufacture of fish scrap and meal. 



In the conduct of several phases of economic and technological 

 work, the Division received the cooperation of the International 

 Fisheries Commission at Seattle, Wash. This included certain 

 technical studies on halibut and halibut-liver oil, and the collection of 

 economic and statistical data on the North Pacific halibut fishery. 



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

 taining statistical data on our fisheries. In a cooperative arrangement, 

 the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Department of Agriculture, 

 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 Munic- 

 ipal Fish Wharf and Market in this city. Cooperation was accorded 

 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. 



In addition to the specifically enumerated instances of cooperation 

 with other Federal agencies cited above, which are on a continuing 

 basis or were of a more detailed nature, it should be stated that a very 

 close relationship exists between this Division and many of those 

 Federal agencies whose duties require an interest in fish in particular, 

 foodstuffs or feedstuffs in general, or in the various marine activities. 



