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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 8 



tute. Judges of the contest will be selected 

 from the food trade. 



To inform buyers of food eaten away from 

 home of the goodness and abundance of fishery 

 products, advertising will be directed to the 

 mass -feeding market. A full-scale publicity 

 campaign to acquaint all buyers of food with 

 the benefits of serving fish and seafoods will 

 be channeled through national and quantity- 

 feeding magazines, newspapers, radio and TV 

 programs. 



Area Fish 'n Seafood Parade committees 

 are being formed. The committees of indus- 

 try men will plan local publicity and advertis - 

 ing promotions to tie-in with the national cam- 

 paign^; 



Note: Information about the trade contest and the national and 

 local promotions may be obtained from the National Fisheries 

 Institute, 1614 Twentieth St. NW. , Washington, D. C. 20009. 



Nautical Charts 



NEW TIDAL CURRENT TABLES ISSUED FOR 

 LONG ISLAND AND BLOCK ISLAND SOUNDS : 

 The publication of new tidal current tables 

 of Block Island and Fishers Island Sounds and 

 northeastern Long Island Sound, based on the 

 most extensive survey in 36 years of the New 

 York-Connecticut-Rhode Island area, was an- 

 nounced June 13, 1966, by the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Commerce. 



CONNECTICUT 



Long Island and Block Island Soimds area covered by new tidal 

 current tables shown in heavy black lines. 



The new tables will provide the more than 

 450,000 recreational boaters, fishermen, 

 commercial shippers, and engineers who fre- 

 quent the area with the most up-to-date in- 

 formation available on the current behavior 

 of this heavily-traveled waterway. 



The new tables were incorporated in a pam- 

 phlet issued as a supplement to the 1966 Tidal 

 Current Tables for the Atlantic Coast of North 

 America, which were published in October 

 1965. Information in the supplement will sub- 

 sequently be included in the 1967 Tidal Cur- 

 rent Tables. 



The supplement to the annual publication 

 was published by the Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey, an agency of the Environmental Science 

 Services Administration (ESSA). Itwas issued 

 in order to make the new data available in 

 time for summer use by recreational and oth- 

 er boaters. 



The supplement covers all of Block Island 

 Sound, most of Fishers Island Sound, the nortla- 

 eastern section of Long Island Sound between 

 Orient Point on Long Island and the southern 

 Connecticut shore, and part of the Thames 

 and Mystic Rivers in Connecticut. It was 

 based on last year's survey, part of a 3 -year 

 project of the Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 which will be completed in 1967. The entire 

 survey will embrace the waters of Long Is- 

 land Sound, Blo'ck Island Sound, Fishers Is- 

 land Sound, and part of the Housatonic, Con- 

 necticut, Thames and Mystic Rivers. 



Free copies of the pamphlet can be obtained 

 from the Survey's local sales agent or by 

 writing to the Coast and Geodetic Survey at 

 602 Federal Office Bldg., 90 Church St., New 

 York, N. Y. 10007, or at the Washington Sci- 

 ence Center, Rockville, Md. 20852. 



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NEW CHART ISSUED FOR 

 BLOCK ISLAND SOUND: 



A new nautical chart covering a portion of 

 one of the nation's busiest waterways --Block 

 Island Sound and the east entrance to Long Is- 

 land Sound --has been issued by the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, an agency of the U. S. De- 

 partment of Commerce's Environmental Sci- 

 ence Services Administration (ESSA). 



The large-scale chart (No. 271, scale of 

 1:40,000) will provide greater detail for the 

 safe navigation of the area, which handles a 

 heavy concentration of commercial and rec- 

 reational boating, much of it to and from New 

 York City. The chart will also be of great 

 help to the more than 500,000 recreational 

 craft from New York, Connecticut, Rhode Is- 

 land, and Massachusetts, which frequent the 

 area. 



