100 



Figure 1. — Geographic boundaries of marine areas designated for locating collecting stations of the Oregon, Silver Bay , 



Combat , and Pelican. 



to the Atlantic coast of Florida, and onboth the 

 Pacific and Caribbean coasts of Panama from 

 2 March 1956 through 27 June 1956, and from 

 31 August 1962 through 18 December 1963. 

 Certain station numbers between 80 and 1599 

 that consisted only of sets with lobster traps 

 are not included in tables 4 and 5. The Pelican 

 was chartered by the Bureau of Connmercial 

 Fisheries during these periods, but is no longer 

 engaged in exploratory fishing. In the station 

 lists issued for the first three cruises of the 

 Pelican (stations 1-79), station numbers were 

 prefixed by "P-," but this prefix was deleted 

 in the published station list (Bullis and Thomp- 

 son, 1965). Another vessel named Pelican , 

 owned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

 conducted exploratory fishing off the south- 

 eastern coast of the United States from North 



Carolina to the Rio Grande River, 22 January 

 1938 through 18 April 1950. The collection 

 stations of this earlier Pelican were designated 

 by a station number (1-218) followed by a 

 hyphen and a haul (or trawl) number; various 

 numbers of hauls (1 - 27) were made at each 

 station. A station list for stations 167 to 218 

 of the earlier Pelican was publishedby Ander- 

 son (1956). 



Table 5 lists the numbers of vessel stations 

 made at each geographically designated lo- 

 cality. The localities are generally arranged 

 from north to south in two divisions: first, 

 areas adjacent to the continents and con- 

 tiguous areas in the Gulf of Mexico and 

 Caribbean Sea; second, oceanic and insular 

 areas fronn the Blake Plateau through the 

 West Indies, 



