ABSTRACT 



This report is the seventh in a continuing yearly series. It contains 

 the results of quantitative sampling of fish eggs and larvae off the coasts 

 of California and Baja California during 1956. The eggs and larvae were 

 obtained in plankton hauls taken on biological-oceanographic cruises by 

 agencies participating in the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries 

 Investigations. 



All occurrences of eggs of the E'acific sardine ( Sardinops caerulea ) 

 are reported by age (in days); larvae of the sardine are reported by si^e. 

 The larvae of three other species are reported by size: northern anchovy 

 ( Enqraulis mordax ). jack mackerel ( Trachurus symmetricus ). and Pacific mack- 

 erel ( Fneumatophorus dieqo ). The larvae of two fishes are reported by num- 

 ber per station only: hake ( Merluccius productus ) and rockfish ( Sebastodes 

 spp.). The report includes charts showing the distribution and relative 

 abundance in 1956 of each of the above species, except rockfish, and brief 

 descriptive accounts of each. 



