The area under investigation contains about 13 million 

 square miles — a region more than four times the size of 

 that occupied by the contiguous United States. Much of it 

 has been investigated repeatedly during research cruises. 

 Between 1950 and 1966, vessels of the Hawaii Area sailed 

 about 900,000 nautical miles (fig. 2). 



A tree-shaded, pink stucco building adjacent to the Ma- 

 noa Campus of the University of Hawaii is headquarters 

 for the Hawaii Area and site of the Biological Laboratory, 

 Honolulu (fig. 3). There the Laboratory's Chief of Scien- 

 tific Services, Mary Lynne Godfrey, supervises a data- 

 gathering network that covers almost the entire tropical 

 and subtropical Pacific Ocean. Under her direction is a 

 staff of young, college-trained technicians (fig. 4). Their 

 job is to collect, compile, and process the basic data the 

 Laboratory uses in its studies of the fisheries and ocean- 

 ography of the Pacific. 



Most of the technicians work at the Laboratoi'y unless 

 they are at sea on the two research vessels, Charlcfi H. Gil- 

 bert and Townsend Cromwell. They take turns at manning 

 the two field stations in Palau and American Samoa. 



Daily a technician from BCF joins the fish handlers and 

 buyers at Honolulu's two fish auctions and makes measure- 

 ments and observations on the catches of boats from the 

 Oahu-based 22-vessel longline fleet (fig. 5). The fishery 

 technician rapidly records weights, lengths, and sex of the 

 tunas and billfishes. He may also draw samples of tuna 

 blood or collect eye lenses or stomach contents. 



FIGURE 3. The principal building of the Hawaii Area, located odjo- 

 cent to the campus of the University of hlowaii in Honolulu, houses 

 the Area headquarters ond the research staff of the Biological Labo- 

 rotory. The principol building contains 8 laboratory work oreas, 35 

 offices, a 5,000-volume library, and a seminar room. Behind it is a 

 one-story annex that contoins three laboratory work oreos^ five of- 

 fices, duplicating services oreo, a warehouse, and o garage. 



At .5:00 in the afternoon a technician waits at the tuna 

 cannery at Kewalo Basin in Honolulu as the skipjack tuna 

 caught by the pole-and-line fleet are unloaded and trundled 

 in for processing (fig. 6). He too measures and weighs 

 fish and notes their sex, and collects blood samjiles. 



Early or late, whenever and wherever in the Hawaii Area 

 pelagic fish are unloaded in any quantity, the BCF has 

 endeavored to be on hand, collecting data to further its 

 studies. Work .starts at 6:00 a.m. for the man stationed 

 in American Samoa, where -Japanese, Korean and Chine.se 



FIGURE 4, Technicians ond other specialists constitute the staff of 

 Scientific Services. Here Area Director John C. Morr congratulates 

 Morion Y. Y. Yong, a mathematician in Scientific Services, who is 

 receiving on oword for outstanding work. 



