Many new findings were discussed at the Symposium. 

 Some were interesting because they were unexpected: For 

 example, aggregation of fishes around drifting objects has 

 aroused much speculation; at the Symposium IVTotoo Inoue 

 and his colleagues of Japan reported that tunas cluster 

 around drifting logs only if those are infested with particu- 

 lar species of burrowing animals that the tunas find tasty. 

 Some papers suggested that the authors had discovered 

 basic principles of how the physical world behaves: Kozo 

 Yoshida of Japan and other scientists have found what 

 may be a global phenomenon never described before — 

 narrow, persistent bands of eastward flowing waters in 

 the subtropics. Richard A. Barkley of the Laboratory 

 in Honolulu presented a refinement of his model of the 

 Kuroshio-Oyashio front, which he sees as a pair of von 

 Karnian vortex streets arranged side by side. Some papers 

 resolved previous speculation: Kazuo Fujino of the Labora- 

 tory in Honolulu showed that — as has been discussed — 

 the skipjack tuna of the western Pacific clearly differ 

 genetically from those of the central and eastern Pacific 

 Ocean. Other papers possessed an interest that transcended 

 the narrowly scientific: The group of Thai biologists led 

 by Deb Menasveta reported on the bottom fish resources 

 of the Gulf of Thailand and the Sunda Shelf. Already 

 the basis of a rapidly growing fishery, these resources 

 might contribute strongly to feeding the inhabitants of a 

 vei-y populous and often hungry part of the world if pres- 



ent catches can be sustained and similar catches made in 

 other shallow areas in the South China Sea. 



It was readily apparent at the meeting that the bulk 

 of the work had been done in the northern sector of the 

 CSK region. One of the strongest recommendations of the 

 International Coordinating Group was that work be intensi- 

 fied in the South China Sea, an area which has been largely 

 neglected scientifically. The International Coordinating 

 Group agreed that synoptic surveys in the Pacific Ocean 

 (i. e., to the east and south of Japan) should end in 1970, 

 but stressed that no closing date can yet be established on 

 the work in the South China Sea. Thus the next few years 

 are likely to see intensified cooperative work in that area; 

 this decision was one of the prime results of the meeting. 



Another recommendation was that a second CSK Sym- 

 posium be scheduled for 1970. The group also recom- 

 mended that the results of this first Symposium be reported 

 in two volumes under the editorship of John C. Marr. 



The CSK meeting was the third in a series of meetings on 

 fisheries and oceanography that have been arranged by the 

 Laboratory in Honolulu and held at the East-West Center 

 in the past few years, the first being the 12th Session of 

 the Indo-Pacific Fisheries Council in 1966, the second 

 the meeting of the planning committee for a conference 

 on the role of fisheries and oceanography in the economic 

 development of the Pacific Basin in February 1968. 



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