FOREWORD 



The International Passatnaquoddy Fisheries Board expresses its indebtedness to 

 the Fisheries Research Board of Canada and to the United States Bureau of Commer- 

 cial Fisheries, whose staifs and consultants have played leading parts in developing 

 its research program. The respective staffs have carried out much of the research 

 and have coordinated investigations by others. Of cooperating agencies, the most 

 prominent were the Markets and Economics and the Conservation and Development 

 Services of the Canadian Department of Fisheries, the Hydrographic Service of the 

 Canadian Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, the Economics Department of 

 Bowdoin College, the Maine Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries, the Atlantic 

 Sea-Run Salmon Connmission, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 



The Board's special gratitude is expressed to members of the Research Committee, 

 named on page ii, who have worked competently and faithfully. 



The findings of the research group were transmitted through the International 

 Passsmaaquoddy Fisheries Board to the International Joint Commission in October 

 1959. The extensively documented original report is now out of print; this Special 

 Scientific Report summarizes the Comn:iittee's findings and is essentially the main 

 report, without appendices. Individual units of research supporting this publication 

 will appear separately in various United States and Canadian journals as numbered 

 papers in the International Passamaquoddy Fisheries Board, 1956-1959, Scientific 

 Report (IPFBSR) series. 



