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years fish scrap and fish oil have been recognized as low 

 grade by-products of the fishing industry. During recent 

 years, as a result of the research of this section of the divis- 

 ion, new outlets have been found for both, especially as 

 animal food, with a resulting enlarged market for the fish 

 industries. 



There is close co-operation between this division and the 

 state conservation departments in the gathering of statistics. 

 The division has repeatedly urged the states to keep up-to- 

 date statistical information in regard to their fisheries and 

 gradually has been able to swing them into line. It has 

 gone further, and in the interest of uniformity has sug- 

 gested the proper forms to be used for the purpose. 



With the comparatively limited funds at its disposal the 

 division has felt that it must give its attention only to fun- 

 damental problems of value to large groups. Problems 

 affecting a single concern have arisen from time to time 

 which the division would have liked to study but could not 

 without endangering its major projects. However, by act 

 of Congress in I932, 36 the bureau was authorized to furnish 

 research facilities whereby firms or groups having special 

 technological problems to solve will provide the investigator 

 and pay his salary and expenses. The work may be carried 

 on in the bureau's laboratory in co-operation with its re- 

 search staff. 37 



The personnel of the division is composed of men trained 

 either in statistics and business administration or in bio- 

 chemistry and engineering. Reports from the field are by 

 the weekly itinerary method upon prepared forms except in 

 the case of scientific investigators who report monthly in 

 narrative form. 



86 46 Stat. L. 373. 



37 Report of Commissioner, Bureau of Fisheries (1933), App. Ill, p. 152. 



