COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 10 



ment service. For 4 years he served as 

 Chief, Exploratory Fishing Section, and Chief, 

 Technology Section, Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 He came back to the Fish and Wildlife Service 

 in April 1956 as BCF's Coordinator of the 

 Saltonstall-Kennedy Program. In November 

 1957, he was promoted to Chief, Division of 

 Industrial Research and Services; in June 

 1961, he became Assistant Director (now 

 Deputy Director). 



In 1961, President Eisenhower appointed 

 him a U. S. Commissioner of the Internation- 

 al Pacific Halibut Commission and he con- 

 tinues to serve in that capacity. He has 

 served too in international fisheries confer- 

 ences. 



Gerald Howard Appointed BCF 

 Pacific Southwest Regional Director 



Gerald V. Howard has been appointed Di- 

 rector of the Pacific Southwest Region. He 

 succeeds Donald R. Johnson, who left to take 

 over the Bureau's Pacific Northwest Region 

 in Seattle. 



Howard headed BCF's Tuna Resources 

 Laboratory at La JoUa, Calif., and now moves 



to Region headquarters at nearby Terminal 

 Island. The Pacific Southwest Region in- 

 cludes California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, 

 Arizona, and New Mexico. 



Howard will direct research efforts to lo- 

 cate and catch tuna off the West Coast --and 

 to study the relationship between ocean cir- 

 culation and fish populations. Changes in 

 abundance of Pacific sardines and anchovies 

 hold particular interest for his office. 



McVey is New Attache 

 in Copenhagen 



Robert W. McVey, a BCF Foreign Fisher- 

 ies Specialist, has been named Assistant Re- 

 gional Fisheries Attache (Europe) for the De" 

 partment of State. He will take up his post in 

 Copenhagen about November 1. He is expect- 

 ed to return to BCF after completing his Co- 

 penhagen tour. 



McVey obtained his MA in fisheries at the 

 University of Missouri in 1955, then worked 

 for the Missouri Conservation Commission 

 two years before joining BCF in Juneau, Alas- 

 Ica, as research biologist. 



"SEAFOOD SLIMMERS, " A NEW BCF RECIPE BOOKLET 



"Seafood Slimmers,"a new, 16-page;, full-color, diet booklet pre- 

 pared by the U. S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries is available for distribution. 



This 4 -color sales document on the preparation of low -calorie fish 

 antl shellfish dishes will be released in connection with the Bureau-in- 

 dustry promotional program for the October "Fish and Shellfish Parade. " 



Called Fishery Market Development Series #7, it may be purchased 

 from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, 

 Wasliington, D. C. 20402, for 25 cents a copy. 



