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Ichthyology (Roselia Romero Hidalgo) 

 Oysters (Audres Mena Millar) 

 Biochemistry (Jose A. Perez Sori) 

 Sardines, tuna, albacore, and sharks (Staff and visit- 

 ing Cuban scientists) 

 PUBLICATIONS ISSUED: Conlribuciones del Centra de 

 Investigaciones Pesqueras (occasionally published jour- 

 nal) 



Institnto Cnhano de Investigaciones Tecno- 

 logicas (ICIT) 



CUBAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INVESTIGA- 

 TIONS 



POSTAL ADDRLSS: Apartado 4026, Via Blanca y Car- 

 retera Central, Habana (Havana), Cuba. 



EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Ing. Jorge Duerra Deben, Direc- 

 tor. 



SPONSORING agency: Ministerio de Industrias. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1955. 



SCOPE OF AQUATIC ACTIVITIES: Research on marine 

 resources, planicton, fisheries and economic algolog)'. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Caribbean Sea, 

 Gulf of Mexico; open ocean, sandy and silty beaches, 

 estuarine conditions, brackish, shallow bays, and coral 

 reefs. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: None at present. 



MAJOR RESEARCH FACILITIES: Small library; running 

 sea and fresh-water, large outdoor ponds and tanks, 

 small aquarium tanks ; research and identified refer- 

 ence collections of fishes, plankton and algae; machine 

 and wood shop, electrical and electronic shop, skilled 

 shop workman available; small boats and outboard 

 motors; research vessel in planning stage. 



SIZE OF staff: Four at professional level; 9 tech- 

 nicians. 



INTITUTO CUBANO DE INVESTIGACIONES TECNOLOGICAS 



major current research projects and scientific 



leaders: 

 Marine algae as supplementary diet for broilers, laying 



hens and cattle (Manuel Diaz-Piferrer and Juan M. 



Navia) 

 Agar and alginic acid extracted from several species 



of Cuban seaweeds (Joaquin Losada and Manuel 



Diaz-Piferrer) 

 Medical products from Cuban seaweeds (Joaquin 



Losada and Manuel Diaz-Piferrer) 

 Fishery biology of the Cuban "bonito" (K. pelamis) 



and "albacore" (T. atlanticus) (Jose Suarez Caabro, 



Pedro Duarte Bello and Georgina Morales) 

 Fishery biolog}' and technology of Cuban sardines 



(Jose Suarez Caabro, Pedro Duarte Bello and Julia 



Alvarez) 

 Fishery biology and technology of Cuban species of 



shrimps (Isabel Perez Farfante and Milagros 



Alemany) 

 PUBLICATIONS ISSUED: "ICIT" Boleliii hijonnativo 

 (regularly published journal) 



Universidad de Oriente, Laboratorio Marino 



UNIVERSITY OF ORIENTE, LABORATORY OF MARINE 

 BIOLOGY 



POSTAL ADDRESS: Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. 



EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Dr. Manuel Diaz-Piferrer, Di- 

 rector. 



SPONSORING AGENCIES: Instituto Cubana de Investi- 

 gaciones Tecnologicas and Universidad de Oriente 

 (Cuban Institute of Technological Investigations and 

 University of Oriente) . 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1956. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Unrestricted biological research 

 on Cuban marine flora ; undergraduate instruction. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Caribbean Sea, 

 Gulf of Mexico; sandy and silty beaches, rocky and 

 gravelly shores, estuarine conditions, brackish, shallow 

 bays, coral reefs. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: None. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIES: Small 



library; small aquarium tanks; research and identified 

 reference collections of Cuban and Caribbean marine 

 algae; vessels of the Cuban Navy are available. 



INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM: General invertebrate zool- 

 ogy, general zoology, plankton, general marine biol- 

 ogy, marine botany, marine ecology. 



SIZE OF staff: Three at professional level; 2 techni- 

 cians. 



important species available for laboratory 

 studies: 

 Algae: Ulva fascial a u. lactuca, Enleromorpha Ungii- 

 lata, Caulerpa raceniosa 



