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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28. No. 9 



from 43°00' N., 127°00' W. (about 120 miles 

 west of Cape Blanco) on July 8, 1966, in 59- 

 60 F, water. 



Thus, actual confirmation of early off- 

 shore warming followed by northward-moving 

 albacore was secured by the Tuna Resources 

 Laboratory, in collaboration with the Cali- 

 fornia Current Resources Laboratory and by 

 Oregon Fish Commission biologists. It was 

 believed that the Davidson Seamount region 

 southwest of Monterey should produce com- 

 mercial quantities of albacore by the third 

 week of July, and commercial concentrations 

 of albacore should appear off Eureka and 

 about 100 miles west of Cape Blanco, Oreg., 

 by the fourth week of July. 



Notei See Commercial Fisheries Review , July 1966 p. 52. 



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AERIAL SURVEY OF WATERS BETWEEN 

 CAPE COD AND CAPE HATTERAS: 



Biologists of the Sandy Hook Marine Lab- 

 oratory at Highlands, N. J., operated by the 

 Interior Department's Bureau of Sport Fish- 

 eries and Wildlife, reported spotting 5 large 

 schools of tuna between Cape Charles and 

 Assateague Island, Va., on July 18, 1966, 

 during their regular monthly aerial survey 

 of sea surface temperatures and marine ani- 

 mals over the Atlantic shelf waters between 

 Cape Cod and Cape Hatter as. The schools 

 of tuna were located between 2 and 40 miles 

 off the coast. The closest school to the shore 

 was 2 miles due east of Little Inlet, Va. 



Water temperatures over the shelf ranged 

 from the low 70's off the Virginia- Maryland 

 line to about 80° F. off Cape Hatteras. In 

 addition to the tuna, the biologists observed 

 an unusually high concentration of sea life in 

 the surface waters over that area. There 

 were several species of schooling fishes, 

 giant manta rays, sunfish, sea turtles, and 

 sharks. There were concentrations of ham- 

 merhead sharks 35 miles ENE of Cape Hat- 

 teras, and several schools of dolphin seen 

 feeding on flying fish 130 miles ESE of Cape 

 Henry, Va. 



Virginia 



ex-vessel value of $26.8 million as compared 

 with 1964 landings of 465.8 million pounds 

 worth $24.2 million. A total of 121.0 million 

 pounds was foodfish, and the remainder (383.0 

 million pounds) was used for canned pet food, 

 bait, and for reduction. Heavy landings of 

 menhaden accounted for most of the increase 

 in quantity, while large harvests of oysters, 

 blue crabs, and sea scallops contributed to 

 the increase in value. Menhaden, blue crabs, 

 alewives, and oysters accoun?ted for almost 

 90 percent of the 1965 landings. 



POTOMAC RIVW' 



VIRGINIA 



FISHERY LANDINGS^ 1965 



Commercial fishery landings in Virginia 

 in 1965 totaled 503.7 million pounds with an 



Virginia fishing areas. 



Virginia's menhaden landings in 1965 

 totaled 350.9 million pounds with an ex-ves- 

 sel value of $5.2 million as against 330.2 

 million pounds in 1964 (ex-vessel value $4.7 

 million). 



Blue crab landings in 1965 totaled 51.6 

 million pounds in quantity with an ex-vessel 

 value of $4.2 million- -down 1.8 percent in 

 quantity but up 8.2 percent in value. 



The 1965 harvest of market oysters 

 amounted to 12.6 million pounds with an ex- 

 vessel value of $10.3 million--down 11.2 per- 

 cent in quantity and 0.8 percent in value from 

 1964. Nearly 1.1 million bushels of seed oys- 

 ters valued at $1.4 million were harvested 

 during the year. 



In 1965, landings of sea scallop meats 

 amounted to 2.8 million pounds valued at $1.7 

 million; only 193,600 pounds were landed 

 during 1964. Large beds of sea scallops were 

 found off Cape Henry and scallop dredgers 

 from as far away as Maine and Canada came 

 to harvest the scallops. 



