DEDICATIONS 



Oscar Elton Sette 



John K. Howard 

 1891-1965 



John K. Howard was an outstanding example of a 

 man whose interest in ocean science led to a second 

 career after retirement from law practice. His many 

 friends throughout the world remember his great 

 enthusiasm, combining a passion for sport fishing 

 with a desire to increase our knowledge of the big- 

 game fishes, in particular the billfishes. He sponsored 

 and directed a research program at the Institute of 

 Marine Science, University of Miami, and also gave 

 much logistic aid to ichthyologists around the world. 

 His travels took him to East Africa, Australia, New 

 Zealand, and Japan. He also visited Portugal, Spain, 

 and Italy, where he collected large numbers of spear- 

 fish and white marlin in an attempt to solve the 

 specific identity of the Mediterranean spearfish. 



Shortly before his death he completed, with Dr. 

 Shoji Ueyanagi of Japan, a large report on the 

 seasonal and geographic distribution of billfishes in 

 the Pacific Ocean. His similar work on these fishes in 

 the Indian Ocean was completed by Dr. Walter A. 

 Starck II. 



John K. Howard was born in Paris, France, on 4 

 April 1891. He received his undergraduate degree 

 from Harvard College in 1915 and his law degree from 

 Harvard College in 1917. After retiring from law prac- 

 tice he studied ichthyology at the University of 

 Miami. He served in both World Wars as an army of- 

 ficer, achieving the rank of colonel. 



1900-1972 



Dr. Sette's contributions to fisheries science are 

 manifold and cover more than half a century of active 

 work as a fishery biologist and administrator. 



From 1949 to 1955 he acted as chief of the newly es- 

 tablished Pacific Oceanic Fishery Investigations 

 (POFI), a Honolulu-based research facility of the Fish 

 and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior 

 (presently the Honolulu Laboratory of the Southwest 

 Fisheries Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce). Here he was 

 responsible for the development of a high-seas 

 fisheries program in the central Pacific Ocean, a 

 program that laid the groundwork for much of what is 

 known today of the tunas, sharks, and billfishes of this 

 expansive body of water. Although much of the 

 research effort of his staff at POFI was devoted to 

 tunas as the principal pelagic species of commercial 

 interest, Dr. Sette was among the first to recognize the 

 need to study the full spectrum of the food web in 

 order to understand the various biological resources of 

 the ocean. The research on billfishes undertaken dur- 

 ing and after his tenure in Honolulu is a result of his 

 appreciation of the need to collect data from all levels 

 of the ecosystem. Dr. Sette was also one of the first to 

 advocate integrating the field of biology with those of 

 oceanography and meteorology. 



Oscar Elton Sette was born in Clyman, Wis., on 29 

 March 1900. In 1910 his family moved to southern 

 California, where he completed his intermediate and 

 high school education. He received his Bachelor of 

 Arts degree from Stanford University in 1922, a 

 Master's degree in Biology from Harvard University 

 in 1930, and a Doctorate in Biology from Stanford 

 University in 1957. 



During a career which extended over 50 years, Dr. 

 Sette served in various research and administrative 

 capacities with the California State Fisheries 

 Laboratory, and the National Marine Fisheries Ser- 

 vice and its predecessor agencies. Beginning in 1924 

 with the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, he held positions as 

 Chief, Division of Fishery Industries in Washington, 

 D.C.; Chief of the North Atlantic Fishery 

 Investigations; Chief of the South Pacific Fishery 

 Investigations; Chief, Pacific Oceanic Fishery 

 Investigations; and Director, Ocean Research 

 Laboratory, on the campus of Stanford University. 



De. Sette "retired" in 1970, but continued his 

 research as an "annuitant" employee of the Federal 

 Government until his death in July 1972. 



