NOVIKO, N. P., and E. I. CHERNYI. 



1967. Perspektivy sovetskogo promysla v 

 vostochnio chasti Tikhogo okeana (Soviet 

 fishery prospects in the eastern Pacific 

 Ocean). Ryb. Khoz. 43(3): 5-7. (Trans- 

 lation by Bureau of Commercial Fish- 

 eries Office of Foreign Fisheries, U.S. 

 Department of the Interior, Washington, 

 D.C.) 

 Populations of several commercial species of fish off 

 the west coast of the United States are discussed, and 

 their value to the U.S.S.R. fishing industry summarized. 

 The Pacific saury was considered the most important and 

 valuable pelagic stock. Behavioral aspects of this stock 

 are reportedly very similar to those near the Kuril 

 Islands. The Soviet saury fishing fleet could fish this area 

 with minor alterations and minimum preparations. 



NOVIKOV, N. P., and YU. M. KULIKOV. 



1966. Perspektivnyi raion promysla sairy 

 (Prospective region for saury fishing). 

 Ryb. Khoz. 42(7): 20-21. (Translation 

 by Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 

 Office of Foreign Fisheries, U.S. De- 

 partment of the Interior, Washington, 

 D.C.) 

 Results of an extensive saury survey off the west coast 

 of North America, lat. 40° to 54° N., are reported. The 

 most dense concentrations of sexually mature adults were 

 between lat. 42°18' and 44022' N., during August, Octo- 

 ber, and November in water temperatures of 12.5° to 

 13.5° C. In October, commercial quantities of adults were 

 found throughout an estimated 13,000-square-mile spawn- 

 ing area. 



NOVIKOV, YU. V. 



1960. Opredelenie vozrasta po cheshue i 

 vozrastnoi sostav sairy [ Cololabis saira 

 (Brevoort)] v raione yuzhnykh Kuril' - 

 skikh ostrovov (Age determinationfrom 

 scales, and age composition of Pacific 

 saury (Cololabis saira (Brevoort)) in 

 the region of the south Kurile Islands). 

 Izv. Tikhookean. Nauch.-issled. Inst. 

 Ryb. Khoz. Okeanogr. 46: 233-241. 

 (Translation by Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries Office of Foreign Fisheries, 

 U.S. Departnaent of the Interior, Wash- 

 ington, D.C.) 

 Scales were used to determine the ages of Pacific saury 

 collected between August and November 1958 in the Kuril 

 Island region. The following conclusions were drawn: 



(1) the annulus forms during the winter and coincides 

 with growth retardation because of low food production; 



(2) scales show different growth characteristics indicating 

 different origins; and (3) in the fall, southward migrating 

 fish are primarily 3 and 4 years of age. 



Reviewer's note: The Japanese believe that these fish 

 are 1-1/2 and 2 years old. 



1966. Vliyanie gidrologicheskikh uslovii na 

 pronnyslovye zapasy sairy (Effect of 

 oceanic conditions on the commercial 

 reserves of saira). Ryb. Khoz. 42(1): 

 16-18. (Translation by Bureau of Com- 



mercial Fisheries Office of Foreign 

 Fisheries, U.S. Department of the In- 

 terior, Washington, D.C.) 

 The Soviet and Japanese saury catches were quite low 

 during the 1964 fishing season. The low catches were 

 attributed to unusually cold waters and unstable thermal 

 gradients in the fishing regions. The southward migration 

 of saury through the fishing grounds was farther off shore 

 and 15 to 20 days later than usual. Once saury entered the 

 fishing grounds they passed southward quickly, thus the 

 fishing season was short. 



NOVIKOV, YU. v., and L. V. KLYUEV. 



1958. Raiony promyslovykh skoplenii i lov 

 sairy v Tikhom okeane (Saury concen- 

 tration areas and fisheries in the Pacific 

 Ocean). Ryb. Khoz. 34(5): 8-13. 

 (Translation I960, available at Clear- 

 inghouse for Federal Science Technical 

 Information, Springfield, Va. 22151, OTS 

 60-21100, 9 pp.) 

 The authors report the locations, school sizes, and 

 oceanographic conditions in which saury were found off 

 the coast of U.S.S. R. and northern Japan. The use of the 

 stick-held dip net with alluring lights is described in 

 detail. Diagrams are provided. The Soviets consider 

 catches of 3 to 5 centners (1 centner =0.1 metric ton) 

 per haul as average, 6 to 10 centners per haul as good, 

 and catches over 10 centners as excellent. For 1 night's 

 fishing, catch of 30 centners is average; 100 centners, 

 good; and above 100 centners, excellent. 



ODATE, SHIGERU. 



1956a. On the distribution of larvae and 

 young of the saury, Cololabis saira , and 

 the condition of maturity of the gonad 

 of the spawning fish in the neighbour- 

 hood of Izu Island and the North-eastern 

 Sea area of Japan. Bull. Tohoku Reg. 

 Fish. Res. Lab. 7: 70-102. (In Japa- 

 nese with English summary.) 

 About 12,500 gonads were measured and classified as 

 "Immature A" (weight of gonad 0.1-0.3 g.), "Immature B" 

 (0.6-0.8 g.), "Maturing" (1.0-3.0 g. — small eggs visible 

 through the ovarian sac), and "Matured" (over 3.0 g. — 

 ovary large and presumed mature). Variation in testes 

 weight was almost the same as the variation in ovarian 

 weight. During the fall and winter, the weights of gonads 

 varied greatly between individuals and varied slightly 

 between size groups. Information on the temporal and 

 spatial distribution of larvae is also presented. 



1956b. The vertebral number of the saury, 



Cololabis saira (Brevoort). Bull. 



Tohoku Reg. Fish. Res. Lab. 8: 1-14. 



(In Japanese with English sumnnary.) 



Vertebrae were counted on 1,700 larval saury from the 



Tohoku, Izu, and Circum-Kyushu regions and 6,300 adults 



from the Tohoku region. Larval saury from the northern 



region had higher mean number of vertebrae than those 



from the southern regions (69.9 in the Tohoku region, 



64.6 in the Izu region, and 64.5 in the Circum-Kyushu 



region). The variation in numbers of vertebrae has been 



attributed to differences in water temperature in the 



three areas. Although he noted that the mean number of 



