74 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



FOREWORD 



This report constitutes a summary of the activities of the Division 

 of Fishery Industries as well as an annual review of fishery statistics. 

 As its name indicates, this Division of the Bureau is concerned with 

 the activities and welfare of the commercial fishery and fishery 

 industries, the trade in fishery products, and the fish canning and 

 preserving industries. Its functions include the collection and pub- 

 lication of fishery statistics, the conducting of market surveys, the 

 prosecution of research designed to solve the technical prob ems of 

 the industry, and the dissemination of authoritative and practical 

 information to the fishery industries and the public. Results of 

 technological investigations and marketing studies are published in 

 separate documents as each project is completed. The information 

 obtained from statistical surveys is pubhshed in part 2 of this report, 

 which includes all the detailed statistical information that has become 

 available since the issuance of the previous report,^ together with such 

 summarized statements and interpretations of the statistics as are 

 deemed significant and useful. In the preparation of this report, 

 members of the Division's staff have taken part and their assistance is 

 appreciatively acknowledged. 



Part I. OPERATIONS OF THE DIVISION 

 COOPERATION WITH OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES 



As in previous years, various members of the Division's technologi- 

 cal, economic, and statistical staft' assisted other Federal agencies 

 where the work or studies of such agencies required information or 

 advice concerning the fishery industry. 



The Bureau also has cooperated with various Federal agencies in 

 obtaining statistical data on our fisheries. The Bureau has the 

 cooperation of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Department 

 of Agriculture, in the collection of statistics on the volume of cold- 

 storage holdings of fish, and the health authorities in Washington, 

 D. C, in obtaining the volume of fish handled at the Municipal Fish 

 Wharf and Market in this city. In another instance the Bureau 

 obtains figures on the volume of the quarterly production and holdings 

 of fish oils for the Bureau of the Census. 



During most of the past year, the technologists in several of our 

 laboratories carried on a portion of the cooperative work undertaken 

 by the Bureau of Fisheries, the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, and 

 the Food and Drug Administration, in connection with the develop- 

 ment of standards for halibut-liver oil essential in the administration 

 of the Federal Food and Drug Act, and for other purposes. This 

 cooperative investigation will be described in detail elsewhere in this 

 report. 



COOPERATION WITH STATE AGENCIES 



In the conduct of its technological investigations, the Bureau has 

 always encouraged and fostered cooperation with the States. By 

 working in close conjunction with the members of the research staffs 

 of various State laboratories and institutions, we have been able to 

 increase the productivity of our relatively small technological staff 



2 Fishery Industries of the United States, 1934. By R. H. Fiedler, Appendix II to the Report of the 

 U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1935, pp. 75-330. 



