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The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Tropical At- 

 lantic Biological Laboratory", 75 Virginia Beach Drive, 

 Miami, Fla. 33149, dedicated in November 1965, oc- 

 cupies a 5-acre tract of land on the shores of Biscayne 

 Bay. The laborator)- ( TABL ) is near the Virginia Key 

 Campus of the Institute of Marine Sciences, Univer- 

 sity of Miami; the site of a new U.S. Department of 

 Commerce Environmental Science Services Admin- 

 istration facility; and the Miami Seaquarium. There 

 are 75 employees of whom 26 are scientists. The 

 Laborator)''s 143-foot research vessel Undaunted, a 

 converted Navy tug, operates in the Caribbean Sea 

 and the tropical Atlantic Ocean. 



Laboratory' facilities include specially designed 

 aquaria for rearing fish, a nontoxic dual sea-water sys- 

 tem, a serological laboratory, a photographic labora- 



