m 

 The Bureau of Marine Fisheries of the California Division of Fish and 

 Game, whose laboratory at Terminal Island was established in 1921, has 

 expanded rapidty into sea-going investigations, and one or more of its 

 vessels are presently being equipped for full-scale oceanographic work in 

 connection with the investigation of the California sardine. It is likely 

 that the corresponding State agencies in Oregon and Washington, 

 conducting excellent work in the investigation of marine fisheries, wiU 

 find it increasingly necessary to expand into the oceanographic field. 



The United States Fish and Wildlife Service. is conducting large-scale 

 investigations in the Pacific area. It is not possible in a report of this 

 scope even to detail those being carried on along the Pacific Coast of 

 North America. The Service has been active in the investigation of 

 substantially all important Pacific Coast fisheries, and has given attention, 

 to improvement of methods, gear, &c., for the collecting of the eggs and 

 larvae of pelagic fish, and the collection of other plankton organisms. 

 One should not omit reference to the important work of the U.S.S. 

 " Albatross," which spent much time between 1901 and 1917 in Pacific 

 Coastal waters. The survey of San Francisco Bay, 1912-1913, is out-- 

 standing. 



The Laguna Beach laboratory of Pomona College, established in 

 1911, the Coos Bay laboratory, established in 1937 under the Oregon 

 State System of Higher Education, the Pacific Biological Station estab- 

 lished by the College of the Pacific at Dillon's Beach, California, in 

 1947, and the laboratory established the same year at Anacortes, Washing- 

 ton, by Walla Walla College are primarily teaching laboratories for the 

 training of undergraduate students. Doubtless the research aspect will 

 be increasingly developed as time goes on. However, it should be 

 remarked that the training of undergraduate students in marine science 

 is in itself an important end, and not at all to be minimized. From 

 these laboratories may come many oceanographers of the future. 



In conclusion, it may be stated that many of the problems of ocean- 

 ography relate to the interaction between sea and land. Littoral ecology 

 is a field of major importance, in which the marine biological laboratories 

 are in a position to make a unique contribution. Every item of infor- 

 mation contributes to the sum total of our knowledge of that vast, 

 amazing complex that is the sea. 



Summary of Discussion 



That oceanography was at present being treated from the point of 

 view of the whole range of the subject was emphasized by Dr. Foerster, 

 who remarked that Marine fisheries, for instance are being developed 

 at the Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, as well as other oceano- 

 graphical and biological projects, although handicapped by shortages of 

 personnel and equipment supply. 



Dr. Hubbs pointed out that Dr. Miller's review was intended to be 

 exclusive of the work of the University of Washington Oceanographic 

 Laboratory and the Scripps Institution, which would be reviewed later. 



A tribute to the large numbers of small fishing craft, and to the 

 invaluable help continually received from fishermen was paid b\' Dr. 

 Frances Clarke. Dr. Johnson concluded with an appreciation of the 

 work of the l^.S. Navy, particularly the Navy Electronics Laboratory. 



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