by Manele Point on Lanai and American Samoa in 1961, 

 and Guam in 1962. From each island the Bureau is obtain- 

 ing these useful sets of data Ijy virtue of the helpful and 

 longstanding cooperation of employees of the Weather 

 Bureau, the Coast Guard, the Navy, the Departments of 

 Agriculture of both Guam and the Government of American 

 Samoa, and the Hawaii Division of Fish and Game. 



In addition to data from sampling sites on land, BCF 

 uses material from two ocean weather stations. The Weath- 

 er Bureau and the Coast Guard have made possible the 

 collection of daily surface water temperatures and weekly 

 water samples from Weather Stations Victor (lat. 34'00'N., 

 long. 164''00' E.) and November (lat. 30°00' N., long. 

 140-00' W.). 



Under Mary Lynne Godfrey's supervision, the millions 

 of items of data collected from this wide area are punched 

 on cards for machine analysis. 



These data are used by the Laboratory's scientists to 

 study the resource potentials of the tropical and subtropical 

 Pacific Ocean. The major resources appear to be: 



(1) Skipjack tuna. 



(2) Shrimp and bottom fish. 



(3) Large tunas (bigeye, yellowfin, and albacore) and 



billfishes taken by longline. 

 This report deals with results of research on these re- 

 sources and their environment. 



FIGURE 6 The principol fishery in Howoii is thot for skipjack tuno. 

 These fish ore caught by pole end line. Most arc unloaded at Kewalo 

 Basin in Honolulu for sale to the cannery. Laboratory technicians 

 meet the fishing sampans as they come in and note the weight, 

 length, ond sex of samples of the catch. 



