The Industrial Schoolfishes Program com- 

 pleted its first year of operation in June 1968. 

 Data obtained on the early life history and com- 

 mercial catch composition of thread herring 

 made it possible for the staff to recommend 

 continuation of the fishery despite pressures 

 from those who would have it abolished. On the 

 basis of our testimony that catches had less 

 than 1 percent food fishes, the court ruled that 

 the fishery could continue if food species did 

 not exceed the 1 -percent level. 



With the completion of a contract this year 

 on the isolation and identification of red-tide 

 (Gymnodinium breve) toxin, all objectives of 

 the Red- Tide Program written in 1962 were 

 fulfilled. We do not intend to imply, however, 

 that a need for further research on the organ- 

 ism no longer exists or that annethodhas been 

 found to control red tides. Our contract with 

 the University of South Florida succeeded in 

 establishing a qualified research unit on that 

 campus. Now that the contract is terminated, 

 the unit is working in close association with 

 State researchers on other red-tide problems 

 and on an informal basis with the Laboratory. 



Physical Science 

 Aid 



Fishery Biologist 



Fishery Physiol- 

 ogist 



Nine employees 

 Nine employees 

 Ecologist 



TRAINING 



Z-week course, AutoAna- 

 lyzer Techniques, New 

 York, N.Y. 



48 class hours, ELemen- 

 tary Statistics, Florida 

 Presbyterian College, 

 St. Petersburg, Fla. 

 (audited course). 



1-week course in Marine 

 Pollution Ecology, Fed- 

 eral Water Pollution 

 Control Administration 

 Training Program, Uni- 

 versity of South Florida, 

 Bayboro Harbor Cam- 

 pus, St. Petersburg, Fla. 



Standard Red Cross First- 

 Aid Course. 



Advanced Red Cross First- 

 Aid Course. 



Continued research toward 

 the Ph. D. degree at the 

 University of Florida, 

 Gainesville, Fla. 



PRESENTATIONS 



Papers were presented at the following 

 meetings: Florida Academy of Sciences, De- 

 land, Fla.; Marsh and Estuary Management 

 Symposium, Louisiana State University, Baton 

 Rouge, La.; National Association of Soil and 

 Water Conservation Districts, Dallas, Tex.; 

 and Oceanographic Institute, University of 

 South Florida Bayboro Cannpus, St. Petersburg, 

 Fla. A staff member gave a talk to the Marine 

 Biology Group, Gibbs High School, St. Peters- 

 burg, Fla. Five staff members served on the 

 Federal Water Pollution Control Administra- 

 tion faculty in presenting a training course-- 

 "Marine Biology and Pollution Ecology (144)." 



MEETINGS AND WORK CONFERENCES 



Figures in parentheses show the number of 

 persons attending. 



Annual Meeting of the Florida Academy of 

 Sciences, Deland, Fla. (2). 



Editing assistance, Rome Italy, in prepara- 

 tion for FAO "Conference on Fish Be- 

 havior in Relation to Fishing Techniques 

 and Tactics," Bergen, Norway (1). 



Five-day trip with representatives of the 

 Vietnamese Directorate of Fisheries to 

 Bureau facilities and points of interest in 

 the fishing industry at Beaufort, N.C., 

 Brunswick, Ga., and Miami, Fla. (1). 



Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission-- 

 Estuarine Technical Coordinating Com- 

 nnittee, Montgomery, Ala. (1). 



Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission- - 

 Estuarine Technical Coordinating Com- 

 mittee, Panama City Beach, Fla. (2). 



Internal Improvement Fund Staff Meeting, 

 Tallahassee, Fla. (1). 



Laboratory Directors' Meeting, Woods Hole, 

 Mass. (1). 



Marsh and Estuary Management Symposiunn, 

 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 

 La. (1). 



National Association of Soil and Water Con- 

 servation Districts, Dallas, Tex. (1). 



Oyster Culture Workshop, University of 

 Georgia, Sapelo Island, Ga. (1). 



Program Review, Miami, Fla. (1) 



Steering Comnaittee, Estuarine Workshop 

 Meeting, Charleston, S.C. (1). 



