NOAA TECHNICAL REPORTS 



National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars 



The major responsibilities of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are to monitor and assess the abundance and geographic distribution of fishery resoun. 

 understand and predict fluctuations in the quantity and distribution of these resources, and to establish levels for optimum use of the rasourt M NMFS is also charged with 

 the development and implementation of policies for managing national fishing grounds, development and enforcement of domestic fisheries regulations, surveillance of foreign 

 nited States coastal waters, and the development and enforcement of international fishery agreements and policies. NMFS also assists the fishing industry through 

 marketing service and economic- analysis programs, and mortgage insurance and vessel construction subsidies. It collects, analyses, and publishes statist us on various phases of 

 the industry 



The NOAA Technical Report NMFS CIRC series continues a series that has been in existence since 1941. The Circulars are technical publications of general interest in 

 tended to aid conservation and management. Publications that review in considerable detail and at a high technical level certain broad areas of research appear in this series. 

 Technical papers originating in economics studies and from management investigations appear in the Circular series 



NOAA Technical Reports NMFS CIRC are available free in limited numbers to governmental agencies, both Federal and State. They are also available in exchange for other 

 scientific and technical publications in the marine sciences. Individual copies may be obtained (unless otherwise noted) from D83. Technical Information Division, Environ- 

 mental Science Information Center, NOAA. Washington, DC. 20235. Recent Circulars are: 



nopsis of biological data on the chum salmon. Oncorhynchus keta (Walbaum) 

 1792. By Richard G. Bakkala. March 1970, iii + 89 pp., 15 figs.. 51 tables. 



347 Synopsis of biological data on Pacific ocean perch, Sebastodes atutus By Richard 

 L. Major and Herbert H. Shippen. December 1970. iii + 38 pp.. 31 figs.. 11 tables. 



319. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Great Lakes Fishery Laboratory. Ann Arbor, 

 Michigan. By Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. March 1970, 8 pp., 7 figs. 



349. Use of abstracts and summaries as communication devices in technical articles. By 

 F. Bruce Sanford February 1971, iii + 11 pp., 1 fig. 



330. EASTROPAC Atlas: Vols. 1-7. Catalog No. I 49.4:330/(vol.) 11 vols. Available from 

 the Superintendent of Documents. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 

 20402. 



350. Research in fiscal year 1969 at the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries !'■ 

 Laboratory. Beaufort. N.C. By the Laboratory staff. November 1970. ii + 49 pp 



17 tables 



331. Guidelines for the processing of hot-smoked chub. By H. L. Seagran, J. T. 

 ski, and .1. A. Emerson. .January 1970, iv + 23 pp., 8 figs., 2 tables. 



332. Pacific hake. (12 articles by 20 authors.) March 1970. iii + 152 pp.. 72 figs.. 47 

 tables. 



333. Recommended practices for vessel sanitation and fish handling. By Edgar W Bow 

 man and Alfred Larsen. March 1970. iv + 27 pp., 6 figs. 



335. Progress report of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Center for Estuarine and 

 Menhaden Research, Pesticide Field Station, Gulf Breeze. Fla., fiscal year 1969 By the 

 Laboratory staff. August 1970. iii + 33 pp., 29 figs.. 12 tables. 



336. The northern fur seal. By Ralph C. Baker. Ford Wilke, and C. Howard Baltzo. April 

 1970. iii + 19 pp.. 13 figs. 



337 Program of Division of Economic Research, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, fiscal 

 year 1969. By Division of Economic Research. April 1970. iii + 29 pp.. 12 figs., 7 tables. 



338. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory. Auke Bay, Alaska. By 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. June 1970, 8 pp.. 6 figs. 



339. Salmon research at Ice Harbor Dam. By Wesley J. Ebel. April 1970. 6 pp., 4 figs, 



340. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Technological Laboratory, Gloucester. 

 Measachu setts. By Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. June 1970, 8 pp., 8 figs. 



341. Report of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory, Beaufort, 



r the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968. By the Laboratory staff. August 1970. iii + 

 24 pp., 11 figs.. 16 tables. 



342. Report of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laborabory, St. 

 Petersburg Beach, Florida, fiscal year 1969 By the Laboratory staff August 1970. iii + 22 

 pp.. 20 figs.. 6 



343. Report of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological I-aboratory, Galveston. 

 Texas, fiscal year 1969. By the Laboratory staff. August 1970, iii + J9 pp.. 28 figs.. 9 

 tables. 



344. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Tropical Atlantic Biological Laboratory pi 



1965-69, Miami. Florida. Bv Ann Weeks. October 1970. iv + 65 pp., 53 figs. 



361. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Exploratory Fishing and Gear Research Base, 

 Pascagoula, Mississippi. July 1, 1967 to June 30. 1969. By Harvey R Bullis. Jr., and John 

 R Thompson. November 1970. iv + 29 pp., 29 figs., 1 table. 



352. Upstream passage of anadromous fish through navigation locks and use of the 

 stream for spawning and nursery habitat. Cape Fear River. N.C. 1962-66. By Paul R. 

 Nichols and Darrell E. Louder. October 1970. iv + 12 pp.. 9 figs., 4 tables. 



356. Floating laboratory for study of aquatic organisms and their environment. By 

 George R. Snyder, Theodore H. Blahm, and Robert J. McConnell. May 1971, iii + 16 pp., 

 11 figs 



361. Regional and other related aspects of shellfish consumption — some preliminary 

 findings from the 1969 Consumer Panel Surve\ H\ MortonM Miller and Darrel A Nash 

 June 1971. iv + 18 pp.. 19 figs.. 3 tables. 10 apps. 



362. Research vessels of the National Marine Fisheries Service. By Robert S Wolf 

 August 1971, iii + 46 pp.. 25 figs 3 tallies For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, 

 U S Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. 



364. History and development of surf clam harvesting gear. By Phillip S Parker. Oc- 

 tober 1971. iv + 15 pp.. 16 figs. For sale by the Superintendent of Document- I S 

 Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C 20402. 



365 Processing EASTROPAC STD data and the construction ol vertical temperature 



and salinitv sections by computer By Forrest R Miller and Kenneth A. Blisv February 

 3 appendix figs, For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, 

 I S Government Printing Office, Washington. D.C 20402. 



366. Key to field identification of anadromous juvenile salmonids in the Pacific 

 Northwest, By Robert -I McConnell and George R. Snyder January 1972, tv + 6 pp.. 4 

 figs For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printinj 

 Washington. D.C 20402. 



367 Engineering economic model for fish protein concentration processes. By K. K. 

 Almenas. I. C Durilla. R.C. Ernst, J. W Gentry. M. B Hale, and J. M. Marchello. Oc- 

 tober 1972. iii + 175 pp.. 6 figs.. 6 tables For sale b\ the Superintendent ol Documents. 

 U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington. D.C. 20402. 



368. Cooperate sico estuarine inventory and study, Florida: Phase I. area 



description. By J Kneeland McNulty, William N Lindall. Jr.. and James l 

 November 1972. vii + 126 pp 46 figs . 62 tables For sale l»y the Superintendent of 

 Documents, 1 S Government Printing Office. Washington, D.C. 20402. 



346 Sp de to handling, smoking, and preserving Great Lakes coho salmon, 



iron Dudley, J. T Graikoski.H I. Seagran. and Paul M. Earl. September 1970. iii 



369 Field guide to thi I Pomacanthidae) in the western Atlantic By Henry 



A. Feddern. November 1972. iii + 10 pp., 17 figs. For sale by the Superintendent of 

 Documents IS Government Printing Office. Washington. D.C. 20402. 



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