EDITOR'S PREFACE TO TRANSLATIONS 



Russian herring research has been greatly expanded since World War II and in the past 

 decade a number of biological reports on Clupea harengus have been published. One of Russia's 

 most comprehensive accounts of the biology of this species has been published as Trudy No. 9 of 

 PINRO (Polyarnyy Nauchno-issledovatel'skiy Institut Morskogo Rybnogo Khozyaystva i Okeano- 

 grafii). 



Four of the English-speaking fishery laboratories have collaborated in translating Trudy 

 No. 9. The Lowestoft laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food provided 

 translations for articles 2, 3, and 5. The Aberdeen laboratory of the Scottish Home Department 

 was responsible for articles 6 and 7. The St. Andrews, New Brunswick laboratory of the Fisheries 

 Research Board of Canada had translated articles 1, 4, and 8. The U. S. Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries laboratory at Boothbay Harbor, Maine provided a translation of article 9. 



Librarians Eileen C. Howard of Lowestoft, H. McCall of Aberdeen, and Lewis R. Day 

 of St . Andrews were active collaborators with the general editor Leslie W . Scattergood of 

 Boothbay Harbor . 



In the Literature 



In all instances, literature citations have been abbreviated. Following is a list of some 

 Russian abbreviations: 



ANII Arkticheskiy Nauchno-issledovatel'skiy Institut (Arctic Scientific Research Institute). 



AN SSSR Akademiya Nauk, SSSR (Academy of Science of the U.S.S.R.). 



AzcherNIRO Azovo-Chernomorskiy Nauchnyy Institut Rybnogo Khozyaystva (Azov-Black 

 Sea Fisheries). 



DAN Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR (Reports of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.). 



Gidrometizdat Gidrometeorologicheskoye Izdatel'stvo (Hydrometeorology Publishing 

 House). 



GIOA Gosudarstvennyy Institut Opjrtnoy Agronomii (State Institute of Experimental 

 Agriculture). 



GQIN Gosudarstvennyy Okeanograficheskly Institut (State Oceanographic Institute) . 



GUSMP Glavnoye Upravleniye Severnogo Morskogo Puti (Main Administration of the 

 Northern Sea Route) . 



Izd. Izdaniye (edition); izdatel' (publisher); Izdatel'stvo (publishing house). 



Kn. Kniga (book). 



LGU Leningradskly Gosudarstvennyy Unlversitet (Leningrad State University) . 



