LABORATORY FACILITIES 



The expansion of activities in all programs 

 required modifications of building interiors 

 for a more efficient use of space. New interior 

 additions included (1) a sedimentology labora- 

 tory, (2) turbine pumps for the sea-water 

 system, (3) a walk-in freezer for specimen 

 storage, smd (4) additional laboratory space 

 for biological smalyses. A number of labora- 

 tories were redecorated and had improved 

 lighting added, along with improved ventilating 

 and air-conditioning systems. Most of the 

 interior space of the buildings on the Fort 

 Crockett site is now completely functional. 



The exteriors of the Laboratory buildings 

 continue to deteriorate and have beconne pro- 

 gressively more unsightly. 



PUBLIC RELATIONS 



Nearly one thousand students, instructors, 

 and other visitors were given Laboratory 

 tours, field trips, or both. The students were 

 from 12 different universities and 9 high and 

 grade schools. By category the students ranged 

 as follows: 



University 210 



High School .... 174 

 Elementary. . . . 389 



Total 773 



Other public relations activities involved 

 consultations with foreign visitors andtrainees, 

 lectures to student sind civic groups, and 

 cooperative endeavors with universities. 



Foreign Visitors 



The visitors to the Laboratory were: 

 Francois Paraiso, Service des Peches Cotonou 

 (Republic of Dahomey) West Africa, and his 

 interpreter, Pierre Fontaine, AID, Washington, 

 D.C; Banchong Teinsongrusmee, Fisheries 

 Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Bangkok, 

 Thailand; M'nakhem Ben-Yami, Fishing Gear 

 and Methods Technologist, Israel Department 

 of Fisheries, who traveled to various seacoast 

 areas of the United States on a 2-month 

 research tour, primarily to learn as much as 

 possible about American commercial fishing 

 methods; and Mitsutake Miyamura, President, 

 The Shrimp Farming & Co., Ltd., Takamatsu, 

 Japan, and two colleagues, Messrs. Kawaguchi 

 and Tsutsumi, of Long Beach, Calif. 



Foreign Trainees 



Also visiting the Laboratory were: Bertram 

 Uboma from Nigeria, West Africa, an exchange 

 student attending the University of Washington 



in Seattle; Vincent Price from Kenya, East 

 Africa, also attending the University of Wash- 

 ington on an AID scholarship underthe Africcin 

 Scholarship Programme of American Univer- 

 sities; Juan Mcinuel de la Garza, Biologist 

 with the I.N. I. B. P. Campeche Laboratory in 

 Mexico; and Jesus A. Macias, Biologist with the 

 I.N.I.B.P. Tampico Laboratory in Mexico. 



Laboratory Activities 



Films describing fishery research were 

 shown by staff members to about 275 elemen- 

 tary and high school students, amd five staff 

 members spoke of the Laboratory's role in 

 fisheries before school and civic groups. 



Permission was obtained from Sun Oil 

 Company to place salinity- and temperature- 

 recording apparatus in a marsh complex near 

 their Caplan, Tex., station. 



An agreement was entered into in March 

 between this Laboratory and Texas A&M 

 University, Department of Wildlife Science, 

 College Station, Tex., to cover the use by 

 Texas A&M University personnel of field 

 sampling equipment and facilities in the 

 Estuarine Program. 



A member of Texas A&M University and 

 the Zapata Oil Company used our salt-water 

 systems for various experiments, and two 

 other institutions were provided specimen 

 collections. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Aldrich, David V. 



1965. Observations on the ecology and life 

 cycle of Prochristianella penaei Kruse 

 (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha). J. Para- 

 sitol. 51(3): 370-376. 



Allen, Donald M., and T. J. Costello. 



1966. Releases and recoveries of marked 

 pink shrimp, Penaeus duorarum Burken- 

 road, in south Florida waters, 1958-64. 

 U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv., Data Rep. 11, 

 68 p. (2 microfiches). 



Cook, Harry L. 



1966. A generic key to the protozoean, 

 mysis, and postlarval stages of the 

 littoral Penaeidae of the northwestern 

 Gulf of Mexico. U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv., 

 Fish. Bull, 65(2): 437-447. 



Cook, Harry L., and M. Alice Murphy. 



1965. Early developmental stages of the 

 rock shrimp, Sicyonia brevirostris 

 Stimpson, reared in the laboratory. 

 Tulane Stud. Zool. 12(4): 109-127. 



Costello, T. J., and Donald M. Allen. 



1966. Migrations and geographic distribu- 

 tion of pink shrimp, Penaeus duorarum , 

 of the Tortugas and Ssmibel grounds, 

 Florida. U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv., Fish. 

 Bull. 65(2): 449-459. 



