The pesticide laboratory has been equipped with a special water- 

 spray, airflow hood for safe handling of the more toxic formulations. All 

 of the ground- floor laboratories in Building A now have sea water running 

 through P. V, C. pipe from two 1500-gallon tanks on the upper balcony. The 

 pesticide laboratory has also been provided with an independent air-condition- 

 ing and heating system. 



Special work conferences Mr. Inglis attended a Corps of Engineers meet- 



ing in San Antonio concerning the use of gold isotopes to trace sand movements 

 and sedimentation at the jettied entrance to Gcilveston Bay. 



Mr. Costello conferred with Branch of River Basin Studies from 

 Vero Beach on the possible effects on the valuable Biscayne Bay fishery for 

 bait shrimp of proposed offshore hurricane dikes paralleling the shoreline. 



Two meetings were held at College Station, Texas, to discuss the 

 preparation of the final report on the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Project. 



Mr. Chin attended the Denver Pesticide Workshop, April 4-6, at 

 the Fish and Wildlife Service's pesticide research center. 



Annual staff meeting The fourth annual staff meeting held at the Galveston 



Laboratory, February 14-17, was attended by nine staff members from field 

 stations at Miami and St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, and Pascagoula, Missis- 

 sippi. Mr. Seton Thompson, Regional Director, and Mr. John Glude, Chief of 

 the Branch of Shellfisheries, attended. Because one of the major topics was 

 estuarine research and its uses in connection with engineering projects, the 

 Branch of River Basin Studies sent Mr, Herbert Hunter from the Atlanta Re- 

 gional Office, Mr. John Byrn from the Albuquerque Regional Office, and Mr. 

 John Degani from their Fort Worth field office. Mr. Edgar Arnold, currently 

 working with the Southeast Study Commission, came from our St, Petersburg 

 Beach Regional Office. 



The contributions of all types of our research to the solution of es- 

 tuarine problems were discussed. A second major topic was the increasing 

 of research production through the use of expanded facilities such as sea- 

 water systems, vessels, field instrumentation, etc. 



Trainees Mr. Malloothara J. George of the Central Marine Fisheries 



Department, India, spent 4 weeks at our Miami Field Station and then came to 

 Galveston where he spent 6 weeks reviewing and participating in the shrimp 

 research program. He then went to the Grand Terre Laboratory of the Louisi- 

 ana Wild Life aind Fisheries Commission to aid in studies of larval shrimp. 



Regional coordination Both at Pascagoula and Galveston, several days were 



spent in the periodic collection, preparation, and shipment of menhaden speci- 

 mens and of menhaden gillrakers to the Beaufort Laboratory and the Virginia 

 Fisheries Laboratory. Dr. Rounsefell met with the other Laboratory Directors 

 and the Pascagoula Base Director at Pascagoula in July to finish the draft of 

 the supply and production section of the Regional report on the status of Gulf 



