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of satisfactory methods of preservation and utilization of the 

 products. Even in the highly organized salmon industry there is 

 insufficient knowledge of what actually takes place within the 

 can, whether the time of processing is too long or too short. 



There is need for a more careful study of the methods of capture, 

 handling and distribution of fish to provide more economical, less 

 wasteful methods, to prevent unnecessary destruction of the sup- 

 plies in our waters and to furnish the consumer with a wholesome, 

 attractive article of food in which the minimum of deterioration 

 has taken place. There is need for exhaustive studies of the 

 methods of preservation and utilization of fishery products, for 

 the development of improvement and economies in practice, and 

 for a much fuller development of uses for all products of the sea. 

 There is need of determining definitely the dietetic qualities and 

 peculiarities of the different species, of educating the consumer 

 to the value of fish as food and to the best and most economical 

 methods of preparation for the table. There is need for fully 

 equipped laboratories and an adequate personnel for the solution 

 of these difficulties. And finally, there is need for fisheries colleges 

 to train men, and women as well, to enter the industry, to develop 

 highly skilled technologists who shall devote their energies to the 

 solution of these important problems. In the United States there 

 are about sixty agricultural experiment stations and a considerable 

 number of institutions for training workers in this industry. A 

 year ago the fisheries were without such provision. Today there is 

 one laboratory for this work and one college of fisheries. 



THE FISHERY PRODUCTS LABORATORY IN WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The war need for food conservation served the more forceably 

 to emphasize the want of fishery products laboratories, fully 

 equipped for the conduct of investigations. On July 2, 1918, 

 the President of the United States made an allotment to the 

 Bureau of Fisheries from the fund for the National Security and 

 Defense for the erection and equipment of a Fishery Products 

 Laboratory in Washington, D. C. As Assistant in Charge 

 of the Division of Statistics and Methods of the Fisheries (now 

 Fishery Industries), it has been the good fortune of the writer 

 to have immediate supervision of the preparation of the plans for 

 this building and its equipment, of the technological investigations 



