11. Investigation of the effects of oil spillage at Wake 

 Island. Such accidents have aroused the concern of author- 

 ities throughout the world since the Torrey Canyon disaster 

 in the Engli.sh Channel. At Wake, deleterious effects were 

 relatively slight, owing to a combination of circumstances. 



12. Convocation in Honolulu of the first scientific re- 

 view of the results of the CSK (Cooperative Study of the 

 Kuroshio and Adjacent Regions), an international marine 

 research project in which 11 nations have joined. 



A list of publications during the period concludes the 

 report. 



THE HAWAII AREA 



The Hawaii Area of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 

 covers a wide reach of the tropical and subtropical Pacific 

 Ocean (fig. 1). Between Palau in the Trust Territory of 

 the Pacific Islands, where the Hawaii Area maintains a 

 field station, and the Laboratory in Honolulu lie more than 

 4,000 miles of ocean, a distance about as great as that 

 between New York and Rome, Italy. The second field .sta- 

 tion, at Pago Pago, American Samoa, south of the Equator, 

 is 5 hours and 10 minutes by jet flight from Hawaii. From 

 Honolulu northwest to Weather Station Victor, 1 of 10 

 Pacific locations from which the Laboratory maintains 

 continuing data collections, is more than 2,000 nautical 

 miles. 



FIGURE I. Formerly known os POFI (Pocific Oceonic Fishery Investi- 

 gotions), the Howoii Area of the Bureou of Commercial Fisheries has 

 conducted research on 13 million squore miles of the Pacific Ocean 

 since 1949. From its headquarters in Honolulu, it studies tuna fisheries 

 there and through field stations in Pago Pogo, Americon Samoa, ond 

 Polou, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. It administers research 

 projects under Federal Aid to Commercial Fisheries Research and De- 

 velopment Act (P. L. 88-3091 in American Samoa, Guam, and Hawaii. 

 It maintains continuing data collections from Johnston Island, Christ- 

 mas Island, Vaitogi, Tutuilo, American Samoa, Guom, Weather Stotion 

 Victor, Wake Island, Midway Island, French Frigate Shoal, Weather 

 Station Norember, and Koko Head (Oahul. Labeled circles show 

 distances from Honolulu in nautical mites. 



