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The Undaunted, BCF research vessel operating out of Miami, Fla. 

 for TABL, as she departs on one of her frequent cruises in tropica 



UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Com- 

 mission. The finding of potential commercial quantities 

 of tuna and other fisher\' resources made it feasible to 

 continue investigations in the area of the Gulf of 

 Guinea. 



The broad objectives of the Laborator)- are : ( 1 ) to 

 obtain and make available to U.S. fishermen the knowl- 

 edge needed to increase the total fishery yield at reduced 

 costs; (2 ) to assist the dexeloping nations bordering the 

 tropical Atlantic to increase the yield of marine protein 

 food resources from adjacent oceanic areas; and (3) to 

 provide the knowledge needed to develop and apply 

 sound conservation policies, particularly for Atlantic 

 tunas. 



The Laboratory has made se\eral significant con- 

 tributions during the short period of its existence. They 

 include participation with other nations in the discovery 

 of the Guinea Undercurrent and the Atlantic Equato- 

 rial Undercurrent; participation in the first transmission 

 of oceanic data from a research vessel on station via 

 communications satellite (NASA's Syncom II) to a 

 shore-based receiving center (the National Oceanog- 

 raphic Data Center, Washington, D.C.) and return of 

 corrected data to the vessel ; coordination of a statistical 

 and biological sampling program with West African 

 countries ; preparation of an atlas of the mean monthly 

 sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic be- 

 tween Africa and South America from about 3 million 

 observations; and the preparation (either published or 



