closed circuit TV system for observing action of gear and be- 

 havior of fish. The ship can accomodate the crew and 16 

 scientists. 



SOMETHING ABOUT BCF 



The Bureau was first known as the United States Fish 

 Commission and functioned as an independent agency 

 from 1871 to 1903. In 1903, it was placed in the newly 

 established Department of Commerce and Labor and 

 was renamed the Bureau of Fisheries. In 1913, the De- 

 partment of Labor was separated from Commerce, and 

 the Bureau of Fisheries remained in the Department of 

 Commerce until 1939. At that time the Bureau of Fish- 

 eries and the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of 

 Biological Survey were transferred to the Department of 

 the Interior. A year later, on June 30, 1940, the two 

 Bureaus were merged to form the Fish and Wildlife 

 Service. The Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 created the 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and the Bureau of Sport 

 Fisheries and Wildlife. BCF has six regional offices 

 and one area office; the headquarters office is in 

 Washington, D.C. 



Area of operations of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biolog- 

 ical Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass., in the western North 

 Atlantic Ocean. 



