Geographical Index to Collecting Stations 

 of the Exploratory Fishing Vessels 

 Oregon, Silver Bay, Combat, and Pelican, 1950-65 



By 

 FREDERICK H. BERRY and SHELBY DRUMMOND 



ABSTRACT 



Geographic locality designations are applied to collecting stations of four Bureau 

 of Commercial Fisheries exploratory fishing vessels during 1950-65 in the western 

 Atlantic. 



INTRODUCTION 



Geographic locality designations are fur- 

 nished for collecting stations occupied by the 

 BCF (Bureau of Comn-iercial Fisheries) ex- 

 ploratory fishing vessels Oregon , Silver Bay , 

 Combat, and Pelican during 1950-65 in the 

 western Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, 

 the Caribbean Sea, and the Pacific Ocean off 

 Panama. The boundaries of these locality 

 designations are shown in figure 1. In locali- 

 ties adjacent to continental areas, the bound- 

 aries generally extend over the Continental 

 Shelf onto the Continental Slope to a depth of 

 about 300 fathoms (549 m.). 



The biological specimens collected, pre- 

 served, and distributed to biologists and mu- 

 seums from cruises of these research vessels 

 are valuable contributions to our knowledge of 

 the fauna of the area, and the ready location of 

 their place of capture is desirable. The col- 

 lection localities of these specimens were 

 recorded by consecutive station numbers of the 

 four vessels. Station lists were issued by the 

 BCF Exploratory Fishing and Gear Research 

 Base at Pascagoula soon after the completion 

 of each cruise. These station lists gave data 

 on locality (latitude and longitude), depth, date 

 of collection, temperatures at bottonn and sur- 

 face (where recorded), and type of collecting 

 gear used. A list of consecutive station nunn- 

 bers, that also included bottom type, air tem- 

 perature (where recorded), and tinne of collec- 

 tion, was published by Springer and Bullis 

 (1956) for Oregon stations 1 to 1429. A similar 



Contribution No. 49, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 

 Tropical Atlantic Biological Laboratory, Miami, 

 Fla. 33149. 



Note. — Frederick H. Berry, Systematic Zoologist 

 (Fishes), Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Tropical At- 

 lantic Biological Laboratory, Miami, Fla. 33149; and 

 Shelby Drummond, Fishery Biologist, Bureau of Com- 

 mercial Fisheries Exploratory Fishing and Gear Research 

 Base, Pascagoula, Miss. 39567. 



list was published by Bullis and Thompson 

 (1965) for the following vessels and stations: 



Oregon stations 1430 to 3174, 

 Combat stations 1 to 530, 

 Silver Bay stations 1 to 2584, 

 Pelican stations 1 to 79. 



To date, the only reference terms that have 

 been supplied for the geographic localities of 

 these stations have been in degrees and nninutes 

 of latitude and longitude. This paper lists 

 standardized nannes for the geographical loca- 

 tions of the stations. Their use makes possible 

 a more immediate and convenient location of 

 the stations by state, country, or oceanic area. 

 These designations are given in five tables. 

 The localities are usually abbreviated after the 

 first time they occur in tables 1 through 4. 



Table 1 gives locality designations by con- 

 secutive station numbers for Oregon stations 

 1 to 5816. These stations were made generally 

 throughout the area shown in figure 1, from 

 North Carolina to Ceara, Brazil, and span the 

 period 24 May 1950 through 2 December 1965. 

 R. V. Oregon is continuing its exploration and 

 collecting. 



Table 2 gives locality designations for Silver 

 Bay stations 1 to 5748, extending from North 

 Carolina to Yucatan, Mexico, and from the 

 Bahamas to Puerto Rico, from 13 June 1957 

 through 18 May 1964. Silver Bay was chartered 

 by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries during 

 the above period; its exploratory collections 

 have now ended. 



Table 3 gives locality designations for Com- 

 bat stations 1 to 530, from North Carolina 

 to the Florida Straits and the North Bahamas, 

 from 27 July 1956 through 9 October 1957. 

 Combat was chartered by the Bureau of Com- 

 mercial Fisheries during that period. The 

 vessel burned and sank off Mexico in Dec ennber 

 1957. 



Table 4 gives locality designations for 

 Pelican stations 1 to 1644, from North Carolina 



