We completed oceanographic cruises 

 throughout the Gulf, during which bottom 

 samples and hydrographic n-ieasurennents were 

 obtained. The data from these cruises are 

 being analyzed and interpreted to discover 

 the oceanic environmental factors that cause 

 fluctuations in fxipulations of shrimp as well 

 as other commercial species of fish and 

 shellfish. A bottom water mass, probably of 

 Antarctic origin and not previously reported 

 in the Gulf, was identified from hydrographic 

 data collected during the first "All-Gulf" cruise 

 made in February- March 1967. 



Of particular interest to fisheries were 

 the evaluations made at this Laboratory of 

 photographs taken during the Gemini space 

 flights. We determined from these photo- 

 graphs that a major advance infishery science 

 can come from a sound ocean-space research 

 effort. 



LABORATORY FACILITIES 



The expanded activities and the increased 

 personnel in the Director's Office made several 

 physical changes necessary. The Conference 

 Room, Director's Office, and Assistant Di- 

 tector'8 Office were relocated and refur- 

 bished. The south porch of one building was 

 enclosed to provide additional laboratory 

 • pace, and laboratory furniture was installed, 

 A second structure and about 0.8 acre of 

 land adjacent to the Laboratory complex were 

 acquired from General Services Administra- 

 tion under a lease agreement for the expanded 

 Space Oceanography Project. 



A replacement tank truck (2,500-gallon ca- 

 pacity) was acquired to transport sea water 

 from the East Lagoon to our recirculating 

 sea-water laboratory, 



PUBLIC RELATIONS 



Neatly one thousand visitors were given 

 Laboratory tours or taken on field trips, or 

 both. Of 800 students and instructors, 360 

 were from 10 universities, 163 were from 

 6 high schools, and 277 were from 6 grade 

 schools. 



Other public relations activities included 

 Consultations with foreign visitors and trainees, 

 lectures to student and civic groups, and 

 cooperation with universities. 



Foreign Visitors 



During the year the Laboratory had 49 

 visitors from 8 foreign countries. On Sep- 

 tember 9, five Mexicans visited the Galveston 

 Laboratory to discuss anticipated problems 

 of disposal of waste material from a phosphate 

 plant to be built at Coatzacoalcoa (Puerto 

 Mexico), Veracruz, Mexico, The group in- 



cluded: Dilio Fuentes, Direccion General de 

 Pesca SIC, Campeche; Cesar Mendoza Trejo, 

 Direccion General de Pesca, Mexico, D. F.; 

 Luis Galvez and Hector Lopez, Direccion 

 General de Obras Maritimas, Mexico, D. F.; 

 and Ing, Gmo. Cabrera, Fertilizantes Fosfata- 

 dos Mexicanos, Mexico, D, F. Another group 

 from the Technological Institute, Monterrey, 

 Mexico, included: Loustaunau Javier, Jose I. 

 Flores Ugarte, Luis A. Coutte, Manuel Robles, 

 Ezequiel Montemayor, Sergio Flores Cavazos, 

 and Daniel Barrera. Also visiting were: Gmo. 

 Chavez Salcedo, Hector Romero, and Victor 

 Martinez from the Estacion de Biologia Marina, 

 Veracruz, Mexico. Other foreign visitors were: 

 H. Schaefer, Monterey Institute of Technology, 

 Monterey, Mexico; E. L. Bousfield from the 

 National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, 

 Canada; Antonio Cortes, Empacadora 

 Escuinapa, Escuinapa, Sinaloa, Mexico; G. C. 

 Phillips, Unilever Research Laboratory, 

 Aberdeen, Scotland; Amine Keyvanfar, Southern 

 Fisheries Company, Tehran, Iran; Klaus Tiews, 

 Assistant Director of the Institute for Coastal 

 and Inshore Fisheries, Federal Research Lab- 

 oratory, Hamburg, Germany; and Arthur C. 

 Simpson, Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries 

 and Food, Fisheries Laboratory, Burnham on 

 Crouch, Essex, England, On June ZZ, 1967, 

 this Laboratory was host to 17 scientists 

 from Brazil and 8 from Mexico. The sched- 

 ule of events included talks by R. E. Steven- 

 son, Assistant Laboratory Director; Dale F. 

 Leipper and James Arnold, Texas A&M Uni- 

 versity, College Station, Tex.; A. G. Alexiou, 

 U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, Washington, 

 D.C.; and H. R. Bullis, Jr., Director, Bureau 

 of Comniercial Fisheries Exploratory Fishing 

 and Gear Research Base, Pascagoula, Miss. 



Foreign Trainees 



The Laboratory had two trainees: C. S. 

 Subrahmanyam, a student from India, and 

 Victor Fernando Carrillo Martinez, Estacion 

 de Biologia Marina, Veracruz, Mexico. 



Laboratory Activities 



Seven staff members discussed the Labora- 

 tory's role in fisheries before school and 

 civic groups. 



The Laboratory Director was invited by 

 committee members of the University of Texas 

 Medical Branch in Galveston to participate 

 in the submission of a proposal from the 

 University of Texas to the U.S. Public Health 

 Service for development of a medically oriented 

 Marine Biological Institute in Galveston. 



The Laboratory Director has been invited 

 to serve, with Lyle St. Amant, Gordon Gunter, 

 and Robert Ingle, on a committee to select 

 a university to administer a grant for a 

 graduate fellowship being established by the 

 American Shrimp Canners Association. 



