Annotated References on the Pacific Saury, 

 Cololabis saira 



By 

 STEVEN E. HUGHES, Fishery Biologist 



Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 



Exploratory Fishing and Gear Research Base 



Seattle, Washington 98102 



ABSTRACT 



The pertinent literature on the saury is reviewed, because of the recent interest 

 in developing a fishery for this species along the west coast of the United States. 

 Over three-fourths of the 72 references concern Japanese or Soviet reports on their 

 saury stocks and fishing industries. 



The annotations briefly describe the nature of the research and summarize the 

 important results or conclusions. 



A subject-author index is provided. 



INTRODUCTION 



Although the Pacific saury is not harvested 

 commercially by United States fishermen, it is 

 caught in considerable quantities by Soviet and 

 Japanese fishermen in the western Pacific. 

 Consequently, the Soviet and Japanese litera- 

 ture on saury is fairly extensive. Little re- 

 search on saury has been carried out by U.S. 

 scientists; however, interest in the possibility 

 of developing a fishery in the eastern Pacific 

 has grown rapidly in recent years. 



I have prepared this report on foreign and 

 domestic saury studies because of the growing 

 U.S. interest in saury. Because present in- 

 terest is concerned primarily in developing a 

 saury fishery, emphasis has been given to the 

 following subjects: (1) methods of harvesting 

 and detecting saury; (2) the influence of en- 

 vironment such as temperature on saury dis- 

 tribution and behavior; and (3) assessment of 

 stocks. 



Because of extensive changes in the saury 

 fishing industry after World War II, and the 

 lack of biological studies prior to that time, 

 most of the literature before 1950 was not 

 included. Some of the 1968-69 literature has not 

 been included because of the translation lag 

 time. Most of the Japanese articles on saury 

 are in the BuUetinof Tohoku Regional Fisheries 



Research Laboratory. Other foreign informa- 

 tion, particularly Soviet articles, has beenob- 

 tained mainly from Fishery and Oceanography 

 Translations, 1964-65, and Foreign Fishery 

 Translations, 1967 to February 1969. These 

 two translation sources, prepared by BCF 

 (Bureau of Commercial Fisheries), Washing- 

 ton, D.C. review numerous foreign articles on 

 the fisheries. 



A total of 72 references were compiled of 

 which over three-fourths were from Soviet or 

 Japanese journals. 



The annotations are intended to (1) briefly 

 describe the nature of the research because 

 titles and particularly translated titles maybe 

 misleading and (2) summarize important re- 

 sults or conclusions. 



The references are listed alphabetically by 

 author and are cross-referenced in a subject 

 index. 



The titles of Soviet articles are given in 

 transliterated form and English, whereas Japa- 

 nese titles are only in English. Many of the 

 Japanese articles with extensive summaries 

 have not been translated. Annotations compiled 

 from summaries are so indicated. All Soviet 

 articles have been translated, and translations 

 are available as indicated. 



