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to the Antarctic with oceanographic observers 
from the Hydrographic Office aboard, occupied 
a line of hydrographic stations from Fremantle 
west to 78°E, and then north to 4°N. Her track 
is shown in Figure 15. 
U. S. NAVY 
Survey vessels of the U. S. Navy have oc- 
cupied hydrographic stations in the Persian Gulf 
and Andaman Sea, as shown in Figure 15. 
Swinnerton and Sullivan (1962) have reported 
some of the results. 
The research vessels CHAIN of Woods Hole 
Oceanographic Institution, ARGO of Scripps In- 
stitution of Oceanography, and CONRAD of La- 
mont Geological Observatory are owned by the 
U. S. Navy, and their operations are supported 
by the Office of Naval Research. The Office of 
Naval Research also supports part of the oper- 
ations of the VEMA and HORIZON. The Navy is 
also providing one R5D aircraft for use in the 
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution meteor- 
ological program and is supplying a NOMAD 
weather station. Support has been given to the 
National Oceanographic Data Center for re- — 
search on data processing for the NOMAD buoy 
observations. 
U. S. WEATHER BUREAU 
Four planes of the Weather Bureau Re- 
search Flight, normally based in Miami, Flor- 
ida, in hurricane observation, will operate in 
India from May to July 1963 and again in Janu- 
ary and February 1964. The Weather Bureau 
is also assigning two professional meteorolo- 
gists to the International Meteorological Center 
at Bombay. Radiosonde equipment is being 
loaned by the Weather Bureau for installation 
on the ANTON BRUUN and ATLANTIS II. 
BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL 
FISHERIES 
The research program of the Bureau of 
Commercial Fisheries in the Indian Ocean has 
the following objectives: 
1. To study the distribution and abundance 
of adult tunas in relation to the circula- 
tion during the two monsoon seasons. 
2. To study the relation of the apex preda- 
tors (tunas, marlins, sharks, etc.) to 
the food-chain, standing crops and pro- 
ductivity. 
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PROGRAM—1965 
a. Organisms eaten (qualitative and 
quantitative analyses of stomach 
contents). 
b. Standing crop of nekton (qualitative 
and quantitative analyses of mid- 
water trawl collections). 
c. Standing crop of zooplankton (quali- 
tative and quantitative analyses of 
zooplankton collections). 
d. Phytoplankton productivity (C‘* up- 
take). 
3. Investigate subpopulations (serology of 
apex predators: tunas, billfish, and 
sharks). 
4. Distribution and abundance of larval and 
juvenile fish (plankton and night-light 
collections). 
5. Zoogeography of zooplankton and zoo- 
plankton forms as biological indicators 
(distribution and abundance of selected 
zooplankters such as copepods of the 
genus Candacia). 
6. Taxonomy, occurrence, and distribution 
of demersal fishes and invertebrates. 
This program will be carried out by per- 
sonnel of the Bureau's Biological Laboratory, 
Honolulu, aboard the ANTON BRUUN. On 
cruises 2 and 5, a party of 8 fishermen and 3 
scientists will be embarked to engage in long- 
line fishing as follows: 
a. On each cruise, fish 60 baskets of 
gear at each station. Occupy 16 sta- 
tions along each of two meridian; 13 
of the stations to be at 5° latitude in- 
tervals and remaining 3 stations to be 
occupied in areas of high abundance. 
b. Data and biological samples to be 
collected. 
(1) Catch (by species) and effort. 
Length and/or weight of each fish. 
Sex and general state of ‘matura- 
tion. 
(4) Preserve stomachs in 10 percent 
formalin. 
(5) Preserve ovaries in 10 percent 
formalin. 
