158 Portugal 



EXECUTIVE officer; Dr. Pedro da Franca, Director. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1951. 



SCOPE OF activities: Restricted and unrestricted re- 

 search on general marine biology, especially fisheries 

 biology; graduate instruction. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Atlantic and 



Indian Oceans; sandy and silty beaches, rocky and 

 gravelly shores, estuarine conditions, brackish, shallow- 

 bays, and coral reefs. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Space for 2 visi- 

 tors in Lisbon and 2 in Angola. 



MAJOR RESEARCH FACILITIES: Small library; research 

 collections of Pisces, Crustacea, Mollusca, algae and 

 plankton; identified reference collections of local 

 fauna and flora from Cape Verde, Guinee, Angola 

 and Mozambique; small boats and outboard motors; 

 50 m LOA vessel, Baldaque da S'llva. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Sixteen at professional level; 10 tech- 

 nicians. 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Fishery biology and ichthyology (P. da Franca, Pissaro. 



F. Correia da Costa, J. Goncalves Sanches) 

 Fishery biology and malacology (M. L. Paes da 



Franca) 

 Fishery biology and technology (D. Draganca Gil, 



M. Sousa Vasconcelos) 

 Ichthyology (Rui Monteiro) 

 Foraminifera (Jaime Martins Ferreira) 

 Zooplankton (Chaetognaths) (Teresa Soares Neto) 

 Zooplankton (Copepoda) (Inacia Paiva) 

 Phytoplankton (Jorge Falcao Paredes) 

 Algology (Francisco Palminha) 

 Carcinology (A. Ribeiro) 

 Oceanography (G. Soares) 

 Technology of fisheries products (L. M. Torres, R. 



Romana, L. Manso) 

 PUBLICATIONS ISSUED: Trdbalhos do Centra de Biologia 

 Piscatorm (occasionally published journal) 



I.AHOHATOHY AT HAIA l-AHIA. ANGOLA 



ESTACAO AQLIICOLA, VILA DO CONDE 



Estacao Aqukola 



WATER RESEARCH STATION 



POSTAL ADDRESS: Avenida Dr. Bernardino Machado, 



Vila do Conde, Portugal. 

 EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Dr. Joaquim Antonio Soares 



Soeiro, Director. 

 SPONSORING AGENCY: Direccao Geral dos Services 



Florestais e Aquicolas (General Office of Forestry 



and Agricultural Services). 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1886. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Stocking of inland waters and 

 restricted research on limnology and fresh-water fish- 

 ery biology, river pollution, and acclimatization. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Rivers and 

 streams. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: None at present. 



MAJOR RESEARCH FACILITIES: Small library; well water. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Five at professional level ; 3 technicians. 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PRt^JECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Industrial effluent problems and recovery studies 



(Joaquim Soeiro) 

 Plankton studies (Antonio Castro) 

 Acclimatization of fishes, especially Microplerus 



salmoides, M. doloiti'ieii and Esox Iiichis (Eduardo 



Lencastre) 



Miri'isterio da Aiar/nhii, htstitnto de B'toJog'tca 

 Marit'iinti 



MINISTRY OF THE NAVY, MARINE BIOLOGICAL 

 INSTITUTE 



POSTAL address: Cais do Sodre, Lisboa (Lisbon) 2, 



Portugal. 

 EXECUTIVE officer: Dr. Herculano Vilela, Director. 

 YEAR founded: 1950. 



