were placed tercporarily in the cold storage hold and later moved into the 

 freezing compartment by means of a commiinicating door between the two com- 

 partments, but as we made more fishing trials we adopted the practice of 

 putting the fish directly Into the freezing compartmento 



Before leaving port the vessel loaded three tons of ice to supplement 

 the capacity of the refrigeration machinery and to provide for other 

 eventualities, but in view of the excellent performance of the installation 

 this turned out to have been a useless precaution„ The same thing could be 

 said of a spare flask of ammonia which wgs taken along„ But considering 

 the demonstration of the ideal character of the equipment of this vessel, 

 this circumstance must be said to be rather a cause for rejoicing than 

 otherwise o 



Conclusions 



The general view is that what are called the South Pacific fisheries 

 of the southern latitudes extend from the waters off Kenya Colony in 

 Africa on the west to the southern islands of the Hawaiian group on the 

 easto Now I would like to make a niimber of observations concerning our 

 so-called South Pacific fishery investigations in the waters south of the 

 Marshalls, but in view of the extremely small area covered by these 

 investigations I am truly embarrassedo I am., however, emboldened to 

 attempt to draw these conclusions since I think that, from the point of 

 view of fi''Y-9.T2es, all sea areas have a good many essential features 

 in common such as weather and sea conditions, the occurrence of fish, 

 and the handling of the catch, and from conditions in one area it is 

 easy to deduce conditions in another., 



Naturally these conclusions are not based solely on the data reported 

 in the present paper, but draw also on my Report of Fishery Investigations 

 in the South Seas (published by the Ministry of Colonies), Report of 

 Fishery Investigations in the Dutch East Indies (published by the South 

 Seas Gcvernment-General) , and other sources. Therefore it will be use- 

 ful to consult the reports which I have mentioned and also other publica- 

 tions of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and other governmental 

 organizations concerned,, 



The following is an effort to present all of the essential data, but 

 since many of these subjects have already been explained as fully as 

 possible under the appropriate sections only the main points will be 

 included here„ 



1. The principal problems which arise in connection with the weather 



In the low latitudes weather forecasts are comparatively accurate 

 and it is easy to determine what the weather is going to be. This fact 

 can be fully substantiated by referring to the accuracy of predictions 

 made by persons who have had many years of experience in navigating those 

 waters and by the aborigines (on this expedition we consulted the predic- 

 tions made by the natives of Ebon I„)« Consequently once you begin to 

 have confidence in these predictions they are extremelj'' significant from 



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