ipated in formal course work; in 1 9(i7, a course in Marine 

 Biology at the University was staffed completely from 

 the Center. 



Other, more formal, arrangements witli the Univer- 

 sity and. more particularly, with SiO, are fundamental 

 to the well-being of the Center: the deeding of the land 

 on which the Center is built; the sea-water supply to the 

 experimental aquarium; the cooperative operation of 

 radio station WWD; the supply of computer facilities; 

 and many other matters. 



In addition to these neighborhood relations with 

 SIO, the Center has participated in cooperative research 

 in the last year with the following organizations; 



CalCOFI 



California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Calif. 

 California Department of Fish and Game, Terminal 



Island. Calif. 

 Estacion de Biologia Pesquera, El Sauzal, Baja Calif. 

 Hopkins Marine Station, Monterey, Calif. 

 SIO, University of California, San Diego, Calif. 



EASTROPAC 



lATTC 



Direccion General de Pesca e Industrias Conexas, 



Mexico 

 Instituto del Mar, Lima, Peru 



Instituto Hidrografico de la Armada, Valparaiso, Chile 

 Instituto Nacional de Pesca, Guayaquil, Ecuador 

 Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii 



Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Tropical Atlantic 



Biological Laboratory, Miami, Fla. 

 Environmental Science Services Administration, U.S. 



Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 Enviroimiental Science Services Administration, U.S. 



Weather Bureau 



National Oceanographic Data Center, Washington, 



D.C. 

 National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. 

 Office of Naval Research, U.S. Navy, Washington, 



D.C. 

 SIO, University of California, San Diego, Calif. 

 Smithsonian Institution, Pacific Program, Honolulu, 



Hawaii 

 Texas A&M University, College Station, Tex. 



U.S. Coast Guard Oceanographic Unit, Washington, 



D.C. 

 U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, Washington, D.C. 



Finally, there is the continuing cooperation in the 

 fishery forecasting project; in its ninth year, this project 

 uses data which are produced by about 25 separate agen- 

 cies or individuals including international organizations, 

 U.S. and foreign Government departments, commercial 

 and fishing vessels and volunteer individuals, such as life- 

 guards and liglithouse keepers, working in strategic local- 

 ities. Without their generous cooperation and without the 

 material assistance of the U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical 

 Weather Central at Monterey, Calif., this project could 

 not survive. 



RESEARCH PROGRAMS 



Research at the Fishery-Oceanography Center is or- 

 ganized as four programs, each containing several projects 

 which are the responsibility of individual scientists; the 

 Fishery-Oceanography Program investigates the relations 

 between fish and their environment, and seeks to predict 

 this relationship for the fishermen; the Population Dy- 

 namics Program investigates the structure of the popula- 

 tion of animal populations, their effects on one another, 

 and the effects of fisheries upon some of them; the 

 Behavior-Physiology Program investigates the trophic re- 

 lations of animals which are important in the food web 

 in the sea, seeking to understand the nature and quantity 

 of food needed by each, the methods by wliich this 

 food is obtained; and the Operations Research Program 

 studies the fisheries by means of systems analysis and 

 from determination of the costs, earnings, and methods 



structure of fisheries suggests new methods by which in- 

 dividual fisheries may be made more profitable. 



Fishery-Oceanography Program 



Tliis program includes three projects; the temper- 

 ate tuna forecasting project devoted to monitoring of the 

 environment and forecasting of the West Coast summer 

 fishery for albacore fVmnnus alalimga) and bluefin tuna 

 (T. thyimusj: the EASTROPAC project, devoted to a 

 biological and physical oceanographic survey of the east- 

 ern tropical Pacific-one of the aims of which is to evalu- 

 ate latent skipjack and other tuna resources in this area; 

 STOR project (BCF contract No. 14-1 7-007-742) devoted 

 to basic research in fishery-oceanography particularly of 

 the tropical tuna of the eastern Pacific. 



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