and 15 high and grade schools. By category 

 the students ranged as follows: 



University 163 



High School 355 



Elementary 357 



Total 875 



Three staff nnembers appeared on television, 

 and 12 lectured or talked before university, 

 public school, and civic groups. 



Quinto Avila M. of FAO- United Nations, 

 Guayaquil, Ecuador, spent 3 mo. (months) at 

 the Laboratory on a training assignment. 



Immediately following Hurricane Hilda, 

 laboratory personnel and the crew of the 

 M/V Gus III helped members of Texas A&M 

 University's Department of Meteorology and 

 Oceanography to measure temperatures and 

 salinities. Analysis of these measurements 

 is shedding new light on the changes that 

 occur in the sea as a tropical storm passes. 



Members of three universities used our 

 salt-water systems for various experiments, 

 and three other institutions were provided 

 specimen collections. 



TRAINING 



Staff training was emphasized, and 70 training 

 commitments were made during the year. Two 

 members of the staff taught at the Texas A&M 

 Summer Session, and three lectured to Texas 

 A&iM students. Some of the training activities 

 were: 



9-mo. Bureau- sponsored acadennic training 

 in oceanography at the University of Rhode 

 Island (1)1 



3-mo. training assignment in the Washington 

 Office (1) 



5 days training for museum (fish-preserva- 

 tion and cataloging) techniques, at the Bureau's 

 Biological Laboratory, Brunswick, Ga. (1) 



10-day, IBM Key-Punch Operator's School, 

 Houston, Tex. (1) 



2-wk. (week) training assignment, on per- 

 sonnel and budget matters, in the Regional 

 Office, St. Petersburg Beach, Fla. (2) 



5-wk. training program, "Techniques of 

 Good Supervision," at the U.S. Public Health 

 Service Hospital, Galveston, Tex. (6) 



5 days training, "Middle Management In- 

 stitute," at the U.S. Civil Service Commis- 

 sion, Dallas, Tex. (2) 



1-wk. course, "Management for Super- 

 visors," given at the Laboratory by 

 representatives of the Central and Regional 

 Offices (20) 



3-mo., 3-credit graduate (extension) course, 

 "Biological Oceanography," at Texas A&M 



^ Number of persons attended. 



University's Departnnent of Meteorology and 

 Oceanography, Galveston, Tex, (14) 



5 days training, "Seminar for Federal Exec- 

 utives on the Management of Human Re- 

 sources," at the U.S. Civil Service Commis- 

 sion, Dallas, Tex. (3) 



3-day course, on critical path techniques, 

 sponsored by the U.S. Army, Corps of Engi- 

 neers, Galveston, Tex. (1) 



2-day course, "Processing Personnel Ac- 

 tions," sponsored by the U.S. Civil Service 

 Commission, Houston, Tex. (1) 



1-yr. correspondence course, "Technical 

 Writing," sponsored by the U.S. Department 

 of Agriculture (5) 



1-yr. correspondence course, "Statistics 

 of Biological Assay," sponsored by the U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture (2) 



1-yr. correspondence course, "Federal Per- 

 sonnel Procedures," sponsored by the U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture (1) 



1-day course, "Introduction to Data Proc- 

 essing--Unit Record System," IBM, Houston, 

 Tex. (1) 



3-day course, "Introduction to Computers," 

 U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Galveston, 

 Tex. (1) 



1-wk. training visit. Bureau's Fishery 

 Oceanography Center, La Jolla, Calif. (1) 



8-day course, "1965-- Training for Super- 

 visors," U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, 

 Galveston, Tex, (3) 



5 days, "Radiological Monitor Instruction 

 Course," Public Safety Annex to City Hall, 

 Galveston Civil Defense, Galveston, Tex. (1) 



2-day "Plain Letters Course," sponsored 

 by the U.S. General Service Administration, 

 Miami, Fla. (1) 



5-day course, "Know the Direction," Man- 

 agement Institute, Mianni, Fla, (1) 



SEMINARS 



Eight seminars were held at the Laboratory: 



"Distribution and abundance of postlarval 

 and early juvenile stages of the brown shrimp 

 in Galveston Bay" by R. D. Ringo 



"Survey of Brazilian inland fisheries" by 

 J. B. Kimsey 



"Measurement of ocean currents" by J. N. 

 Carruthers 



"Systematics of Lake Lanao (Philippines) 

 cyprinids" by C. Wood 



"Rearing and taxonomy of larval shrimp" 

 by H. L. Cook 



"Temperature and growth of juvenile shrimp" 

 by Z. P. Zein-Eldin 



"Ecological implications of shrimp para- 

 site's life history" by D. V. Aldrich 



"Shrimp fisheries of South America" by 

 M. N. Mistakidis, FAO. 



In February 1965, a 4-day, informal pro- 

 gram review enabled the entire staff to discuss 



