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Mesh size and net material versus fish stock and 



selectivity (M. Roessingh) 

 Industrial fishery (especially sand eels) (M. Roessingh) 

 Sole stock and sole fishery (J. de Veen) 

 The future of the oyster industry (Delta project) (A. 



Drinkwaard and A. Vlasblom) 



NETHERLANDS 

 ANTILLES 



Caraibisch A\ar'ien-Biolo g'lsch Instituiit 



CARIBBEAN MARINE BIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE 



POSTAL address: Piscaderabaai, Curacao, Nederlandse 

 Antillen (Netherlands Antilles). 



location: Near Willemstad. 



EXECUTIVE officer: Dr. Ingvar Kristensen, Directeur. 



SPONSORING AGENCY: Curacao Regering (Govern- 

 ment) . 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1955. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Unrestricted research in tropical 

 marine ecology, physiology, systematics, and anatomy. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Caribbean Sea; 

 sandy and silty beaches, rocky and gravelly shores, 

 brackish, shallow bays (in the autumn rainy season), 

 coral reefs, eutrophic lake (dries up after the rainy 

 season), land locked lagoons with normal sea water 

 and hypersalinic lagoons. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Research and 

 living space for 8 visitors ; no fees charged for re- 

 search space; visiting scientists are very welcome. 



MAJOR RESEARCH FACILITIES: Moderately complete 

 library; running sea and fresh-water, small aquarium 

 tanks, small outdoor tanks and large fish pens; identi- 

 fied reference collections of corals, mollusks, fishes 

 and some smaller groups of invertebrates ; two small 

 motor vessels. 



CARAIBISCH MARIEN-BIOLOGISCH IN.STITUUT 



SIZE OF staff: One at professional level ; 5 technicians, 

 ostracods, and phyllopods. 



IMPORTANT SPECIES AVAILABLE FOR LABORATORY 



studies: Typical tropical Atlantic fauna and flora 

 with abundant coral reef types ; brackish, shallow bays 

 and fresh-water lakes provide large fauna of bryozoans, 

 ostracods, and phyllopods. 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Ecology of corals (I. Kristensen) 

 Ethology of coral fish (I. Kristensen) 

 Osmoregulation of fish, decapods, and snails (I. 



Kristensen) 

 Biology of Molliens/a randepoUi (I. Kristensen) 

 'Ecology oi Artemia (I. Kristensen) 



NEW CALEDONIA 



Aqtiar'inni de Noumea, Station de Biologie 

 Marine 



NOUMEA AQUARIUM, BIOLOGICAL MARINE STATION 



POSTAL ADDRESS: B. P. 15, Noumea, Nouvelle-Cale- 



donie (New Caledonia) . 

 EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Dr. Rene Catala. 

 SPONSORING AGENCY: Private foundation. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1956. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Unrestricted research on general 

 marine biology. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Mer de Corail 

 (Coral Sea); coral reefs. Exceptional environment 

 for zoologists who are skin divers and aqualung divers. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Space for 1-2 

 visitors; fees charged for research space; living quar- 

 ters available nearby. 



MAJOR RESEARCH FACILITIES: Small library; running 

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

 small aquarium tanks ; important identified collection 

 of algae; small boats and outboard motors; 5 m glass 

 bottom raft, Pedalo. 



SIZE OF staff: Two at professional level; 1 technician. 



IMPORTANT species AVAILABLE FOR LABORATORY 

 STUDIES: 



Organisms permanently established in aquaria. 



Coelenterata: 



Actinians (from shallow and deep water) 

 Hcxacorals (from shallow and deep water) 

 Octocorals (gorgonians, alcyonarians, pennatulids) 



Echinodermata: 



Asteroidea (especially Oreaster, Nardoa, Linckia) 

 Crinoidea (especially ConhUnla, Aiitedon) 

 Ophiuroidea (especially Ophhirachiiti incrassata') 

 Echinoidea (several genera) 

 Holothuroidea {Holothuria, Syiiaptd) 



Annelida: Sedentary Polychaeta {Seip/dii, etc.) 



