CRUISE INFORMATION 



4. Observations made during HUGH M. SMITH cruises. This U. S. Fish and 

 Wildlife Service vessel was operated by the Honolulu Biological Laboratcrie; 

 (or its predecessor the Pacific Oceanic Fishery Investigations) . Shipboard 

 activities generally were carried out by personnel of the Botany Department of 

 the University of Hawaii at the discretion of the scientific field party chief 

 often with his assistance and the assistance of other members of the scientific 

 party aboard. The data thus obtained have been distributed; 1) in the Special 

 Scientific Reports on Fisheries ("SRR") of the U. S. Department of the Interior, 

 2) in the annual reports from the Botany Department of the University of 

 Hawaii to the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission on work done on Contract AT-(0^-3)-15 

 and 3) in print outs or special listings of the data provided to various insti- 

 tutions and individuals . 



Unless otherwise mentioned in the specific paragraphs describing the 

 individual cruise, standard Hawaii techniques were used (Angot, Doty & Oguri, 

 1958; Doty & Oguri, 1958; Doty & Oguri, 1960). In every case, the non-ship- 

 board laboratory work such as radioactivity, pigment measurements and the 

 calculating, was carried out in the Botany Department of the University of 

 Hawaii, as part of the work being done on Contract AT- (04-3) -15 with the 

 U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. 



4031 ■ Observations made during the "EASTROFIC" cooperative expedition 

 22 September - 23 December 1955 on the HUGH M. SMITH . Productivity was 

 measured from Manzanillo , Mexico to the equatorial region and thence west- 

 ward to south of Hawaii. J. E. King of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and 

 Robert L. Pyle, of the Botany Department of the University of Hawaii had the 

 main responsibility for the field work on this cruise. 



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