NOAA TECHNICAL REPORTS 



National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars 



The major responsibilities of the National Marine Fisheries Ser\'ice (NMFS) are to monitor and assess the abundance and geographic distribution of fishery resources, to 

 understand and predict fluctuations in the quantity and distribution of these resources, and to establish levels for optimum use of the resources. NMFS is also charged with 

 the development and implementation of policies for managing national fishing grounds, development and enforcement of domestic fisheries regulations, surveillance of foreign 

 fishing off United States coastal waters, and the development and enforcement of international fishery agreements and policies. NMFS also assists the fishing industry through 

 marketing service and economic analysis programs, and mortgage insurance and vessel construction subsidies. It collect*, analyzes, and publishes sutistics on various phases of 

 the industry. 



The NOAA Technical Report NMFS CIRC series continues a series that has been in existence since 1941. The Circulars are technical publications of general interest in- 

 tended to aid conser\ation and management. Publications that review in considerable detail and at a high technical level certain broad areas of research appear in this series. 

 Technical papers originating in economics studies and from management investigation-! appear in the Circular series. 



NOAA Technical Reports NMFS CIRC are available free in limited numbers to governmental agencies, both Federal and State. They are also available in exchange for other 

 scientific and technical publications in the marine sciences. Individual copies may be obtained (unless otherwise noted) from D83. Technical Information Division. Environ- 

 mental Science Information Center. NOAA. Washington. DC. 20235. Recent Circulars are: 



315. Synopsis of biological data on the chum salmon. Oncorhynchus beta (Walbaum) 

 1792 By Richard G. Bakkala March 1970. lii -I- 89 pp.. 15 figs.. 51 tables. 



347. Synopsis of biological data on Pacific ocean perch. Seba»tode$ alutus. By Richard 

 L. Major and Herbert H. Shippen. December 1970. iii + 38 pp.. 31 figs.. 11 tables. 



319 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Great Lakes Fishery Laboratory. Ann Arbor. 

 Michigan. By Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. March 1970. 8 pp.. 7 figs 



349. Use of abstracts and summaries as communication devices in technical articles. By 

 F. Bruce Sanford. February 1971. iii + 11 pp.. 1 fig. 



330 EASTROPAC Atlas: Vols. 1-7. Catalog No. I 49.4:330/(vol.) U vols. Available from 

 the Superintendent of Documents. U.S. Government Printing Office. Washington. DC. 

 20402. 



3,50. Re.search in fiscal year 1969 at the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological 

 Laboratory. Beaufort. N.C. By the Laboratory staff. November 1970. ii + 49 pp.. 21 figs., 



17 tables. 



!31. Guidelines for the processing of hot-smoked chub. By H. L. Seagran. J. T. 

 Craikoski. and J. A. Emerson. January 1970. iv + 23 pp., 8 figs.. 2 tables. 



:«2. Pacific hake. (12 articles by 20 authors.! March 1970. iii ■¥ 152 pp., 72 figs.. 47 

 tables. 



;tt3. Recommended practices for vessel sanitation and fish handling. By Edgar W, Bow- 

 man and Alfred Larsen. March 1970. iv -f 27 pp.. 6 figs. 



.335. Progress report of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Center for Estuarine and 

 Menhaden Research. Pe.sticide Field Station. Gulf Breeze. Fla.. fiscal year 1%9. By the 

 Laboratory staff. August 1970. iii + 33 pp.. 29 figs., 12 tables. 



3.16 The northern fur seal. By Ralph C Baker. Ford Wilke. and C Howard Baltzo April 

 1970. iii + 19 pp.. 13 figs. 



i37. Program of Division of Economic Research. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, fiscal 

 vear 1969. By Division of Economic Research. April 1970. iii + 29 pp.. 12 figs.. 7 tables. 



-3.18. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory. Auke Bay. Alaska, By 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. June 1970, 8 pp.. 6 figs. 



:»9. Salmon research at Ice Harbor Dam. By Wesley J, Ebel April 1970. 6 pp.. 4 figs 



:140. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Technological Laboratory. Gloucester. 

 Massachusetts. By Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. June 1970. 8 pp., 8 figs, 



.341. Report of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory. Beaufort. 

 N C. for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1968. By the Laboratory staff. August 1970, iii -t- 

 24 pp.. 11 figs,. 16 tables. 



342. Report of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laborabory. St. 

 Petersburg Beach. Florida, fiscal year 1969, By the Laboratory staff. August 1970. iii + 22 

 pp.. 20 figs.. 8 tables. 



.343, Report of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory. Galveston. 

 Texas, fiscal year 1969. By the Laboratory staff August 1970. iii -t- 39 pp.. 28 figs.. 9 

 tables. 



344, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Tropical Atlantic Biological Laboratory progress in 

 research 1965-69. Miami. Florida, By Ann Weeks October 1970. iv -f 65 pp.. 53 figs. 



.351. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Exploratory Fishing and Gear Research Base. 

 Pascagoula. Mississippi, July 1, 1%7 to June 30, 1969. By Harvey R, Bullis. Jr.. and John 

 R. Thompson. November 1970, iv -(- 29 pp.. 29 figs.. 1 table. 



352, Upstream passage of anadromous fish through navigation locks and use of the 

 stream for spawning and nursery habitat. Cape Fear River. N.C. 1962-66. By Paul R. 

 Nichols and Darrell E. Louder. October 1970. iv + 12 pp.. 9 figs.. 4 ubies. 



3.56, Floating laboratory for study of aquatic organisms and their environment. By 

 George R Snyder. Theodore H. Blahm. and Robert J. McConnell, May 1971. iii + 16 pp.. 

 U figs. 



381, Regional and other related aspects of shellfish consumption — some preliminary 

 findings from the 1969 Consumer Panel Survey, By Morton M, Miller and Darrel A, Nash. 

 June 1971. iv -f 18 pp.. 19 figs.. 3 tables. 10 apps 



362, Research ves.sels of the National Marine Fisheries Service, By Robert S, Wolf, 

 August 1971. iii + 46 pp.. 25 figs,. 3 tables. For sale by the Superintendent of Documente. 

 US Government Printing Office. Washington. DC 20402. 



364, History and development of surf clam harvesting gear. By Phillip S. Parker. Oc- 

 tober 1971. iv -I- 15 pp.. 16 figs. For sale by the Superintendent of Diocumenu, US, 

 Government Printing Office. Washington. DC. 20402. 



365, Processing EASTROPAC STD data and the construction of vertical temperature 

 and salinity sections by computer. By Forrest R, Miller and Kenneth A, Bliss, February 

 1972. iv -I- 17 pp . 8 figs,. 3 appendix figs. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents. 

 U.S. Government Printing Office. Washington. DC, 20402. 



366, Key to field identification of anadromous juvenile satmonids in the Pacific 

 Northwest By Robert J. McConnell and George R Snyder January 1972. iv -t^ 6 pp.. 4 

 figs For sale by the Superintendent of Documents. US, Government Printing OfTice. 

 Washington. DC. 20402. 



;167, Engineering economic model for fish protein concentration processes. By K, K. 

 Almenas. L. C Durilla. R.C. Ernst. J W. Gentry. M B. Hale, and J M, Marchello, Oc- 

 tober 1972, iii + 175 pp. 6 figs . 6 tables For sale by the Superintendent of Documenu, 

 U.S. Government Printing Office. Washington. DC, 20402. 



368. Cooperative Gulf of Mexico estuarine inventory and study. Florida: Phase I. area 

 description By J. Kneeland McNulty. William N. Lindall. Jr . and James E Sykes, 

 November 1972, vii -K 126 pp., 46 figs,. 62 tables. For sale by the Superintendent of 

 Documents. U.S. CJovemment Printing Office. Washington. D,C, 20402, 



346, Sportsman's guide to handling, smoking, and preserving Great Lakes coho salmon. 

 By Shearon Dudley, J. T. Graikoski. H. L. Seagran. and Paul M. Earl. September 1970, iii 

 + 28 pp.. 15 figs. 



,169. Field guide to the anglefishes (Pomacanthidae) in the western Atlantic By Henry 

 A. Feddern. November 1972. iii + 10 pp.. 17 figs. For sale by the Superintendent of 

 Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office. Washington, DC, 20402. 



Continued on inside back cover. 



