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pletecl and daily reports were issued beginning on May 26. The 

 service at Boston is very similar to that in New York City. Detailed 

 data are included in the daily reports on the landings of fish and shell- 

 fish at the Boston Fish Pier. These figures are separately enumerated 

 by types of craft, fishing areas, and species. As in New York Cit}^, 

 data also are included in these daily releases on prices, cold-storage 

 movements, and arrivals at Boston by express, rail freight, fishing 

 craft, and coastwise as well as transoceanic steamships. Data also 

 are included on the landings and prices at other New England ports, 

 at New York City, and at West coast ports. The Boston service 

 further includes advance reports on certain fishery commodities en 

 route to Boston, such as vessels with fares of mackerel passing through 

 Cape Cod Canal, fish shipped by transporting vessels from Canadian 

 pjorts, and express shipments clearing certain towns on the United- 

 States-Canadian border in Maine. B. E. Lindgren, fisheries statisti- 

 cal and marketing agent, is in charge of the fishery market news 

 service in Boston. 



Studies are now in progress preliminary to the establishment of a 

 market news reporting office in Seattle, Wash., and other offices will 

 be established as time and facilities permit. Agents also will be 

 stationed at other producing points to submit current market news 

 data to the reporting offices. 



The popularity of the fisheries market news service with members of 

 the fishery industry and others has been demonstrated by the many 

 commendatory letters received by the Bureau about the work from 

 fishery associations, wholesale fish dealers, cold-storage and freezing 

 companies, transportation agencies, financing companies, Federal, 

 State and Canadian fishery agencies, fishermen, and reporters and 

 editors of newspapers and periodicals. 



It will be the Division's aim to continue a sound market news service 

 and to incorporate in this service as much useful current data from 

 important producing and consuming centers as can be accurately 

 collected with available facilities. Furthermore, every effort will be 

 exerted toward speed in dissemination. 



COOPERATIVE MARKETING 



The work of the cooperative marketing unit of the Division, which 

 is charged with handling matters relative to the administration of 

 Public, No. 464, an act passed by the Seventj^-thu'd Congress, second 

 session, authorizing associations of producers of aquatic products, was 

 continued during the year under the direction of L. C. -Salter, fishery 

 economist. 



Since its establishment in 1935, the cooperative marketing unit has 

 been conducting investigations to determine as far as possible the 

 cooperative status of fishery organizations in the United States and the 

 nature and extent of their activities and has given personal assistance 

 to groups of fishermen contemplating the formation of cooperative 

 associations. As part of this program, a survey of fishery associations 

 on the Pacific coast was begun in 1936. During 1937 this was 

 extended to include the fishing areas of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast 

 States. Along with this survey, as a companion study, the unit has 

 continued its investigation relating to the financing of fishing enter- 

 prises throughout the major fish-producing areas of the country. 



