ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Michael S. Inoue, Associate Professor, De- 

 partment of Mechanical and Industrial Engi- 

 neering, Oregon State University, who was 

 under contract by BCF to travel to Japan and 

 survey the Japanese saury fishing industry. 



helped compile the Japanese literature. Osamu 

 Kibesaki (Tokai Regional Fisheries Research 

 Laboratory, Tokyo) helped obtain and sent in- 

 formation from Japan. 



SAURY BIBLIOGRAPHY 



AHLSTROM, ELBERT H. 



1968. An evaluation of the fishery resources 



available to California fishermen. In 



De Witt Gilbert (editor). The future of 



the fishing industry of the United States, 



pp. 65-80. Univ. Wash. Publ. Fish., New 



Ser. 4. 



The size, embryonic development, and planktonlc nature 



of saury eggs are discussed and compared with the eggs 



of other pelagic fish. Using only the egg data, the author 



estimates the adult saury population in the eastern North 



Pacific at 450,000 English tons; ' however, counts of saury 



under lights at night indicate a much larger population. 



He mentions that saury are important to Russian and 



Japanese fishermen in the western North Pacific and that 



the Russians have evaluated the saury population in 



waters adjacent to Oregon and California. 



AHLSTROM, ELBERT H., and HAROLD D. 

 CASEY. 

 1956. Saury distribution and abundance. 

 Pacific coast, 1950-55. U.S. Fish Wildl. 

 Serv., Spec. Sci. Rep. Fish. 190, 69 pp. 

 This paper is a data report on a 6-year study on the 

 relative abundance and location of saury eggs and saury 

 within the Pacific coast area covered by the California 

 Cooperative Fishery Investigations. Saury eggs were col- 

 lected by plankton nets or removed from floating objects. 

 Small, medium, and large saury were counted under lights 

 at night and sampled by dip net. 



AIZAWA, YUKIO. 



1963. The behaviour and reaction to fishing 

 lamps in saury shoals. Bull. Tohoku 

 Reg. Fish. Res. Lab. 23: 85-92. (In 

 Japanese with English summary.) 

 Fishermen divide schools of saury into actively gather- 

 ing schools, those that concentrate rapidly under alluring 

 lights, and feebly gathering schools, those which respond 

 less positively to alluring lights. The percentage of the 

 former decreases as the fishing season progresses. 

 Owing to the north to south migration during the fishing 

 season, more actively gathering schools were noted in 

 northern waters than In southern waters. The author 

 classifies schools of saury attracted to light into five 

 behavioral groups: (1) individuals recognizable, swimming 

 near the surface; (2) individuals unrecognizable, swimming 

 in comparatively deep layers; (3) schools with jumping 

 members; (4) schools swirling near the surface; and (5) 

 schools swimming in deep layers. 



All tonnage figures are metric unless specified as English. 



1967. Studies on the number of fin rays of 

 the saury the differences among the 

 modal groups in body length frequency 

 and among the fish schools. 

 Bull. Tohoku Reg. Fish. Res. Lab. 27: 

 11-20. (In Japanese with English sum- 

 mary.) 

 Previous studies indicated that saury migrating to the 

 Northeastern Sea of Japan consist of two subpopulations, 

 large and small fish in one group and medium-sized 

 fish in the other. 



The numbers of dorsal and anal fin rays were tabulated 

 for the two groups from 1962 to 1965. The average num- 

 ber of dorsal fin rays was 10.56 to 11.38 in the large fish, 

 10.43 to 11.28 in the small fish, and 10.33 to 11.00 in the 

 medium-sized fish. Saury migrating offshore had a higher 

 average number of dorsal fin rays than inshore fish. 

 Reviewer's note: The author did not confirm or deny 

 the subpopulatlon theory. 



ANDREEV, N. N. 



1962. Stick-held dip net for saury fishing. 

 In his Spravochnik po orudiyam leva, 

 setesnastnynn materialam i pro- 

 myslovomu snaryazheniyu (Handbook of 

 fishing gear and its rigging). Pishche- 

 promizdat, Moscow. (Translation 

 pp. 418-420. Complete translation avail- 

 able at Clearinghouse for Federal 

 Scientific and Technical Information, 

 Springfield, Va. 22151, TT 66-51046.) 

 Four diagrams are presented showing (1) a typical 

 stick-held dip net and its rigging, (2) a tailoring system 

 for making the net, (3) the deck arrangement of a saury 

 vessel, and (4) a saury net being hauled aboard ship. 

 Net twine sizes, selvages, hanging coefficient, and 

 auxiliary apparatus of a saury net are briefly dis- 

 cussed. 



APLIN, J. A. 



1939. The occurrence of sauries in south- 

 ern California. Calif. Fish Game 25: 

 343-344. 



An estimated 100 English tons of saury were reported 

 south of Anacapa Island, Calif., on August 28, 1939. 

 Such concentrations of this species in the California area 

 are believed not common. 



Behavioral patterns of saury in California waters are 

 briefly discussed. 



