These investigations are p-.rt of the California Cooperative Sardine 

 Research Program, a program sponsored "by the Marine Research Committee 

 and carried out cooperatively "by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography 

 of the University of California, the Bureau of Marine Fisheries of the 

 California Department of Fish and Game, the California Academy of Sciences, 

 the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University and the South Pacific 

 Fishery Investigations of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 



