APPENDIX K 



BIOGRAPHIES OF CONTRIBUTORS 



VERNON E. BROCK, Laboratory Director, Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries, Biological Laboratory, Building 75, Naval Weapons Plant, 

 Washington 25, D. C. 



Born in Fillmore, California, June 24, 1912, Mr. Brock ob- 

 tained a B.A. at Stanford University in 1935, and his M. A. there 

 in 1944. 



He served as a field investigator for the Committee on the 

 Evidence of Depletion of the California Sardine in 1936. He served 

 the Fish Commission of Oregon as Fisheries Biologist (1936 to 1940), 

 and as Chief Biologist (1940 to 1943). He was Product Administrator 

 and Analyst Officer for Fishery Coordination, U. S. Department of 

 Interior, from 1943 to 1944. From 1944 to 1958 he was director of 

 the Division of Fish and Game of the Territory of Hawaii. From 1958 

 to 1961 he served in the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, U. S. 

 Fish and Wildlife Service, as Assistant Director of the Pacific 

 Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (from 1958 to 1959), and as area 

 director from 1959 to 1961 when he left to assume his present 

 responsibilities. 



He is a member of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, the Society of Ichthyologists and Herptologists, 

 Wildlife Society, American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists, 

 and the Society of Systematic Zoologists. He is a widely recognized 

 authority on tropical fishes and has published many scientific papers 

 in the field of oceanograph.y and fisheries. He has specialized in 

 ecology and population studies of tropical marine fishes, systematics 

 of fishes, and the early development of life histories of fishes. 



In addition to his present advisory role, Mr. Brock represents 

 the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in the development and coor- 

 dination of the national oceanographic program. The Washington 

 Laboratory carries out fishery-oceanographic research programs 

 in the Atlantic, and, as its director, he is responsible for develop- 

 ment of a fishery and oceanographic research plan for a high seas 

 survey of the equatorial Atlantic from the South American to the 

 African Coasts. 



REAR ADMIRAL LEONID AS D. COATES, Chief of Naval Research, 

 Office of Naval Research, Washington 25, D. C. 



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