Fishery forecasting for lemperate tuna the data com- 

 munications center. 



tained by Federal Aviation Administration and ESSA- 

 Weather Bureau; telegraph and high-speed landlines and 

 the Bureau-licensed radio station WWD are involved in 

 these links. This facility also has access to the computer 

 center of the University of California adjacent to the 

 laboratory for processing, analysis, and presentation of 

 data in a cheap and efficient manner, since the Fishery- 

 Oceanography Center is now an important part of the 

 University computer system. 



The degree to which the other laboratory facilities 

 have developed since the Center was established will be 

 clear from a reading of the accounts of research which 

 appear later in this report. In fact, with few exceptions, 

 the individual laboratories are now well endowed with 

 equipment and other facilities. 



The Fishery-Oceanography Center operates two re- 

 search vessels and a number of small workboats. The 

 major vessel, David Starr Jordan (52 m.), was put into 

 service in 1966. Since then she worked in the California 

 Current before embarking on the EASTROPAC opera- 

 tions; during these she completed six 2-month cruises in 

 the tropical Pacific with very short turnaround periods. 

 This vessel has now developed into a sophisticated re- 

 search tool for fishery oceanography, and has a very 

 complete set of observational equipment. 



G Mattson 



G. Mattson 



Fishery forecasting-receipt of computer generated mete- 

 orological predictions. 



Included in David Starr Jordan's new capabilities 

 are the following: salinity, temperature, and depth sens- 

 ing to 1.500 m. with STD apparatus, including digital 

 data logger and an electrically actuated rosette of 12 

 water-sampling bottles; continuous surface themiosalino- 

 graph with analog recorders; expendable bathythermo- 



