ABSTRACT 

 Current practices aboard commercial fishing 

 vessels have come about largely through trial and 

 error, rather than through the application of re- 

 search findings. As a result, fishemien have not 

 always kept pace with the increasing demands by 

 consumers for fishery products of higher quality. 

 This report can provide the fishery industry with a 

 measuring stick necessary for self evaluation, while 

 supplying specific recommendations for improving 

 vessel sanitation and fish handling techniques. 



334. Published in 1969. 



335. Progress Report of the Bureau of Com- 

 mercial Fisheries Center for Estuarine and 

 Menhaden Research, Pesticide Field Station, 

 Gulf Breeze, Fla. Fiscal Year 1969. By T. R. 

 Rice, and Thomas W. Duke. August 1970, iii 

 + 33 pp., 29 figs., 12 tables. 



ABSTRACT 

 Research activities include studies on the fate 

 and effect of pesticides in the estuarine environment. 



336. The Northern Fur Seal. By Ralph C. Baker, 

 Ford Wilke, and C. Howard Baltzo. April 



1970, iii + 19 pp. 



ABSTRACT 

 The early history of worldwide fur sealing; the 

 distribution and movement of northern fur seals; 

 and their food, physical characteristics, reproduc- 

 tion, and mortality and disease are discussed. In- 

 formation is also given on fur seal population, 

 management, and research; sealing on the Pribilof 

 Islands; and processing and sale of fur seal skins. 



337. Program of Division of Economic Research, 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Fiscal Year 

 1969. By Frederick W. Bell. April 1970, iii + 

 29 pp., 12 figs., 7 tables. 



ABSTRACT 



The Division studies the economic behavior of the 

 U.S. fishing industry to provide information needed 

 by Government policy makers and industry members 

 to solve many of the problems facing the fishing 

 industry. This first report describes briefly the 

 organization and functions of the Division in re- 

 lation to the Government's policies concerning the 

 commercial fisheries. 



The report summarizes (1) the projects completed 

 in the Branch of Demand and Marketing Research 

 and the Branch of Supply and Resource Use Re- 

 search during Fiscal Year 1969; and (2) those 

 projects included in Fiscal Year 1970 work program. 



338. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological 

 Laboratory Auke Bay, Alaska. By U.S. De- 

 partment of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wild- 



life Service, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. 

 June 1970. (Four-Fold Flyer) 

 (No abstract) 



339. Salmon Research at Ice Harbor Dam. By 

 Wesley J. Ebel. April 1970. (Four-Fold Flyer, 



4 figs.) 



ABSTRACT 

 Juvenile salmon were collected at Ice Harbor 

 Dam and transported downstream in the Columbia 

 River. This method of bypassing dams and reser- 

 voirs may be a means of increasing the survival of 

 the fish. 



340. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Techno- 

 logical Laboratory Gloucester, Massachusetts,. 

 By U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish 

 and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries. June 1970. (Four-Fold Flyer.) 



(No abstract) 



341. Report of the Bureau of Commercial Fish- 

 eries Biological Laboratory, Beaufort, N.C. 

 For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1968. 

 By Kenneth A. Henry, and Joseph H. Kutkuhn 

 and Staff August 1970, iii + 24 pp., 11 figs., 

 16 tables. 



ABSTRACT 

 Results of biological research in the blue crab 

 and menhaden programs are discussed. Major topics 

 include abundance, distribution, and survival of blue 

 crab and menhaden larvae, juveniles, and adults; 

 results of menhaden tagging studies; and details 

 of the 1967 menhaden fishery. Other activities of 

 the laboratory staff, and publications for fiscal year 

 1968, are listed. 



342. Report of the Bureau of Commercial Fish- 

 eries Biological Laboratory, St. Petersburg 

 Beach, Florida, Fiscal Year 1969. By James 

 E. Sykes. August 1970, iii -I- 22 pp., 20 figs., 

 8 tables. 



ABSTRACT 

 Highlights of research in fiscal year 1969 included 

 analysis and publication of data related to effects 

 of engineering on the estuarine resource and com- 

 pletion of field work on the Florida portion of the 

 cooperative Gulf of Mexico Estuarine Inventory. 

 In addition, data supplied through testimony to the 

 Florida Legislature assisted in the establishment 

 of an aquatic preserve; and after a local hearing in 

 which Laboratory data were presented, a munici- 

 pality disapproved a potentially damaging engineer- 

 ing project. 



343. Report of the Bureau of Commercial Fish- 

 eries Biological Laboratory, Galveston, 



