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The whale fisheries by United States vessels are prosecuted mainly 

 off the coasts of Alaska and California, with one vessel from New 

 York conducting operations off the coast of Australia. 



EXHIBITS AT EXPOSITIONS 



During the past fiscal year the Bureau displayed exhibits depicting 

 its activities at expositions in San Diego, Calif., Dallas, Tex., and 

 Cleveland, Ohio. The main feature of the exhibits at the first two 

 expositions included a painted background of an outdoor scene. The 

 foreground consisted of rocks, bushes, and plants grouped around 

 a pool of water stocked with warm-water fishes such as bass and 

 bream. The main feature at the Cleveland Exposition was a mechan- 

 ical diorama depicting the effect of thermal conditions in Lake Erie 

 on the prosecution of the commercial fishery. These exhibits were 

 financed by a portion of the special allotment granted to Federal 

 agencies by Congress for participation in the expositions. 



COOPERATION WITH STATE AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 



In the conduct of its statistical research work, some form of coop- 

 eration is given the Bureau in almost every State where commercial 

 fishing is prosecuted. This cooperation on statistical work has prob- 

 ably reached its greatest development in the Lake States, the Pacific 

 Coast States, and in Maryland and Virginia. 



In the technological work of the Bureau many State agencies have 

 cooperated in placing at the Bureau's disposal their facilities and 

 rnembers of their scientific staffs for the conduct of these investiga- 

 tions. Among the institutions cooperating in this work are the 

 State Medical College, Charleston, S. C; Massachusetts State Col- 

 lege, Amherst, Mass.; Massachusetts State Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Boston, Mass.; George Washington University, Washington, 

 D. C. ; Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Washington State College, 

 Pullman, Wash.; University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.; Uni- 

 versity of Maryland, and the Maryland State Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, College Park, Md.; and Western Maryland College, 

 Westminster, Md. 



There are numerous informal agreements and arrangements in 

 effect whereby the Bureau and the States cooperate in the operation 

 of hatcheries, distribution of fish and related fields. Such an agree- 

 ment covers the work at the York pond, New Hampshire station, 

 located in the White Mountain National Forest, and also at the 

 Bureau's Put in Bay, Ohio, hatchery. 



The Bureau's White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., station has con- 

 tinued to be a source of raw material in the form of trout fry which 

 are transferred to the State rearing projects. 



Indiana and Ohio have again depended upon the Bureau for the 

 limited number of trout required for the waters of those States. In 

 the West, much of the cooperation is connected with the collection of 

 trout eggs. 



_ Review of Federal applications by State authorities and coordina- 

 tion of distribution is now such a routine matter as to require no 

 special comment. 



Field studies on fishing and stream conditions have been conducted 

 in a number of widely separated localities. In New Hampshire the 



