NORTH PACIFIC AND BERING SEA 

 OCEANOGRAPHY, 1959 



by 



Felix Favorite, Richard J. Callaway 

 and James Fo Hebard 



Oceanographers 



Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 



U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service 



Seattle, Washington 



ABSTRACT 



This report presents oceanographic data collected by personnel 

 on board the chartered fishing vessels MV Pioneer and MV 

 Tordenskjold at and between fishing stations in the North Pacific and 

 the Bering Sea from May to September 1959. Procedures used are 

 described and stations occupied are shown. 



The tabulated data present tennperature and values of salinity, 

 density, and dissolved oxygen at varying depths to 1,050 meters; 

 number, time, and position of drift bottle releases; time, position, 

 and weather and sea conditions for bathythermograph lowerings; and 

 displacement volumes, wet weights, and numbers of organisms per 

 cubic meter of water for the vertical l/Z meter plankton hauls. 



INTRODUCTION 



These data represent the third sum- 

 mer's field work accomplished by the 

 Oceanographic Section of the Biological 

 Laboratory, Seattle, Washington, under 

 the direction of the American Section 

 of the International North Pacific 

 Fisheries Commission. The observa- 

 tions were taken on board fishing ves- 

 sels chartered to continue the investi- 

 gation of the distribution and migration 

 of salmon in the North Pacific and the 

 Bering Sea. 



The purpose of the oceanographic 

 observations is to permit investigation 

 of relationships between physical, 

 chemical, and biological conditions, and 



the abundance and distribution of 

 salmon stocks, as determined by gill- 

 net catches. 



Observations made at bathythermo- 

 graph stations occupied by the vessels 

 Commander and Windward, chartered 

 by the Fisheries Research Institute, 

 University of Washington, are listed in 

 the appendix. 



Acknowledgments 



Dr. Richard H. Fleming of the Uni- 

 versity of Washington permitted us to 

 use the IBM program. Ralph W. Riley 

 assisted in the chemical analyses. 

 Commander E. Tabor, USN, provided 

 laboratory space at the U. S. Naval Air 

 Station, Adak, Alaska. 



