Cruise B6212 : R/V Black Douglas; December 

 1-3, 1962; central to southern Baja California, to 

 about 80 km. (50 miles) seaward; 10 tows with 

 CMWBT: 55-176 (4), 240-311 (3), 386-426 (3); 

 other work, collections at Marquis Point and Mag- 

 dalena and Santa Maria Bays, Baja California, 

 using seines, rotenone, otter trawls, and dip nets. 



Cruise B6303 : R/V Black Douglas; February 

 28 to March 18, 1963 ; Point Conception to off San 

 Diego, Calif., to about 480 km. (300 miles) sea- 

 ward; 13 tows with CMWBT: 18-73 (3), 113-201 

 (3), 274-386 (5), unknown (2) ; negative tows, 

 stations 87.70a, 87.70b; other work, oblique and 

 horizontal tows with 1-m. standard plankton net 



and 1-m. closing net and bottom trawling with 

 16-ft. otter trawl. 



Cruise C6303 : R/V John N. Cobb; March 1-27, 

 1963; Point Conception, Calif, to central Baja 

 California, to about 430 km. (270 miles) seaward; 

 36 tows with Cobb pelagic trawl Mark II : 9-27 

 (5), 82-192 (10), 201-403 (15), 458-489 (4), 640 

 (2) ; negative tows, stations 80.70, 85.68, 111.36b. 



STATION DATA 



The basic station numbering system in use since 

 1950 for the California Cooperative Oceanic 

 Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) was used for 

 station designation during the pelagic survey (fig. 

 1 ) . An explanation of this numbering plan was 



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CALCOFI 

 BASIC STATION PLAN 



SINCE 1950 



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Figure 1. — CalCOFI basic station plan since 1950. 

 PELAGIC FISHES, CALIFORNIA CURRENT AREA 



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