ABSTRACT 



This report describes the facihties now available 

 for research and gives an account of research done from 

 July 1967 througli June 1%8. 



The main accomplishments of the Center during 

 this period have been completion of the EASTROPAC 

 surveys of seasonal changes in the biology and ocean- 

 ography in the eastern Pacific, and design of computer 

 methods of analysis and presentation of survey data; 

 design and construction of an experimental deep-sinking 

 tuna purse seine net; partial elucidation of the genetic- 

 ally distinct racial structure of the northern anchovy ; and 

 completion of studies of the feeding budget of the Cali- 

 fornia sardine population during the rise and fall of the 

 fishery. 



David Starr Jordan, the Center's major research vessel. 



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