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major current research projects and scientific 

 leaders: 



Assistant Laboratory Director and Oceanographer 

 (Thomas S. Austin) 



Tropical Atlantic fishery-oceanography program 

 (Robert C. Wilson) 



Environmental oceanographic research program (J. 

 Lockwood Chamberlin) 



Oceanographic instrumentation program (Julius Rock- 

 well, Jr.) 



Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachu- 

 setts 



POSTAL ADDRESS: Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. 

 EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Dr. Herbert W. Graham, Labora- 

 tory Director. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1885. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Restricted fishery and oceanog- 

 raphic research with emphasis on groundfish. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Gulf of Maine, 

 Georges Bank, New York Bight, and Atlantic Ocean. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Space for visitors; 

 no fees charged ; living quarters available nearby. 



MAJOR RESEARCH FACILITIES: Very extensive library at 

 adjacent institution, small library at Laboratory; run- 

 ning sea and fresh-water, small aquarium tanks; re- 

 search collections of bottom invertebrates ; small boats 

 and outboard motors; one 180 ft LOA trawler-ocea- 

 nographic ship. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Twenty at professional level; 20 tech- 

 nicians. 



IMPORTANT SPECIES AVAILABLE FOR LABORATORY 



STUDIES: See Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods 

 Hole, page 224. 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Cod investigation (A. C. Jensen) 

 Flounder investigation (F. E. Lux) 

 Haddock investigation (M. D. Grosslein) 

 Hake investigation (R. E. Fritz) 



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BIOLOGICAL LAnORATORY, WOODS HOLE 



Industrial fishery investigation (R. L. Edwards) 

 Redfish investigation (G. F. Kelly) 

 Sea scallop investigation (J. A. Posgay) 

 Bottom ecology investigations (R. L. Wigley) 

 Plankton ecology (J. B. Colton) 

 Fish behavior investigation (R. Livingstone, Jr.) 

 Population dynamics investigation (R. C. Hennemuth) 

 Oyster biology (P. S. Galtsoff ) 



Ichthyological Laboratory 



POSTAL ADDRESS: Room 71, U. S. National Museum, 

 Washington, D.C, USA. 



EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Dr. Daniel M. Cohen, Director. 



SCOPE OF activities: Research on taxonomy of fishes 

 and mollusks; effects of environment on distribution 

 of marine fishes. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PH1SICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Field work on 

 vessels of Fish and Wildlife Service and cooperating 

 agencies. 



PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Space for 2 visi- 

 tors. 



MAjc:)R RESEARCH FACILITIES: Very extensive library; 

 research collections of fauna and flora of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution are available; machine and wood 

 shop, electrical and electronic shop, skilled shop work- 

 men available. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Three at professional level; 3 techni- 

 cians. 



major current research projects and scientific 

 leaders: 

 Studies on abyssal fishes of the family Brotulidae (D. 



M. Cohen) 

 Taxonomy and distributional problems in midwater 



argentinoid fishes (D. M. Cohen) 

 Studies on gadoid fishes (D. M. Cohen) 

 Studies on tunas and related fishes (B. B. Collette) 

 Studies on hemirhamphid fishes (B. B. Collette) 

 Studies on bivalve mollusks of the family TeUinidae 

 (K. J. Boss) 



United States Deptutmeut of the Interior, 

 Fish and Wildlije Sert'ice, Bureau of 

 Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Branch of 

 Fishery Research 



POSTAL address: 



Headquarters: Washington 25, D.C, USA. 



Branch laboratories: 



1. Convict Creek Experiment Station 



2. Eastern Fish Disease Laboratory 



3. Eastern Fish Nutrition Laboratory 



4. Fish Control Laboratory 



5. Fish-Pesticide Research Laboratory 



6. North Central Reservoir Investigations 



7. Salmon-Cultural Laboratory 



