UNITED STATES 

 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 



STEWART L. UOALL, SECRETARY 



FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 



CLARENCE F. PAUTZKE, COMMISSIONER 



BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES 



DONALD L. MCKERNAN, DIRECTOR 



DIVISION OF RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT 



RALPH C. BAKER, ASST . DIRECTOR 



COMMERCIAL FiSH! 



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A review of developments and news of the fishery industries 

 prepared in the BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES. 



Joseph Pileggi, Editor 

 G. A. Albano and H. Beasley, Assistant Editors 



Address correspondence and requests to the: Chief, Fishery Market News Service, U.S. Bureau of 

 Commercial Fisheries, 1815 North Fort Myer Drive, Room 510, Arlington, Va. 22209. 



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 Budget, May 1, 1963. 



5/31/68 



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COVER: Shows a salinity-temperature -depth (STD) probe being lowered 

 from the research vessel Undaunted, operated by the U. S. Bureau of 

 Commercial Fisheries Tropical Atlantic Biological Laboratory, Miami, 

 Fla. The instrument is connected by conductor cable to a recorder a- 

 board the vessel which graphs salinity and temperature of the ocean's 

 depths. (See page 50, R/V Undaunted investigations in Western Atlan- 

 tic Ocean adjacent to the Lesser Antilles and Caribbean Sea.) 



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.Species Composition of the North Carolina Industrial Fish Fishery, by William E. Fahy 

 .The South Pacific Long-Line Fishery for Albacore Tuna, 1954-64, by Tamio Otsu 



TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS: 



Alaska: 

 Herring-Eggs -on-Kelp Fishery at Craig 

 Denmark Imports Alaskan Fishery Products 

 Logging and Salmon Problems Discussed 

 Interest in Seward's Fisheries Potential 

 Navy to Release Dutch Harbor Buildings for 



Housing Needs at Unalaska 

 New Fish-Processing Plants at Kotzebue 



and Golovin 

 New Vessel for King Crab Fishery 

 Fishery Scientists Organize 



Alaska Fisheries Explorations and Gear De- 

 velopment: 



Shrimp Behavior -Trap Studies Completed 

 Vessel Chartered for Shrimp Explorations 



Alaska Fisheries Investigations: 

 Salmon Egg Survival Rate s May Be Improving 



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TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS (Contd.): 

 American Fisheries Advisory Committee: 



15 . . 21st Annual Meeting Held in Washington, D.C. 



California: 



16 . . 1966 Anchovy Reduction Fishery Closes 



16 . . Pelagic Fish Population Survey Continued 



17 . . Cans --Shipments for Fishery Products, Janu- 



ary-February 1966 



Caribbean and Tropical Atlantic Fisheries Ex- 

 plorations: 

 17 . . Fish Pump Tested in Caribbean Fisheries 



Central Pacific Fisheries Investigations: 



19 . . Forecast for Summer 1966 Hawaiian Skipjack 



Tuna Fishery 



20 . . Tuna Biological Studies Continued 



21 . . New Sonar Gear Installed on Research Ves- 



sel Townsend Cromwell 



Contents continued page II. 



