COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 10 



a few bocaccio (S. paucispinus ). Many of the 

 55 unidentified echo-sounder schools were 

 probably rockfish. 



PACIFIC HAKE: Found in close associa- 

 tion with whitebait smelt usually 1 to 2 fath- 

 oms off bottom. They appeared as small 

 groups spaced irregularly from 20 to 50 yards 

 apart. A series of these groups was counted 

 as a school. One school covered over a mile 

 near San Francisco Light Vessel; a smaller 

 one was found off Halfmoon Bay. Many iso- 

 lated groups not counted as schools were 

 found near mouth of San Francisco Bay. 

 Trawl samples contained large adults. 



Adverse weather conditions lasting one 

 week hampered operations in Monterey Bay 

 area. A brief survey of outer Channel Islands 

 and Santa Cruz Basin was made in southern 

 California while the vessel was returning to 

 port. The heavy concentrations of anchovies 

 found there in June had disappeared. Only 

 scattered schools were detected and no signs 

 of fish were present. 



Note: See Commercial Fisheries Review , August 1966 p. 



19. 



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ALBACORE LANDINGS DOWN IN 

 CALIFORNIA, UP IN OREGON 



Landings of albacore tuna in southern Cali- 

 fornia in July dropped to record low of 630 

 tons, 235 tons below July 1965 figure, the 

 previous record postwar low since 1945. 

 Conversely, the Pacific Northwest experi- 

 enced one of the best early albacore seasons 

 since 1959. Oregon landings through July 

 would have exceeded estimated 262 tons but 

 brief price dispute in mid -July stopped the 

 fishing. 



* * * * * 

 ANCHOVY REGULATIONS SET 



The Fish and Game Commission has con- 

 tinued the experimental commercial fishery 

 for the take and reduction of anchovies. The 

 season runs from October 1, 1966, through 

 April 30, 1967, or until the quota of 75,000 

 tons is reached. The quota is the same as 

 last year's, the first year of the experimen- 

 tal fishery, when only 17,000 tons were 

 landed. If the quota of 35,000 tons is reached 

 in the offshore zone ("zone four"), fishermen 

 must come to the Commission and ask for an 

 additional quota. 



The Department of Fish and Game will 

 check the catch continously, estimate date 

 quota will be reached, and give 48 hours' no- 

 tice on the closing date. The Commission 

 may close the season, after 48 hours' notice, 

 any time it determines the anchovy resource 

 is in danger of depletion or waste. 



Hawaii 



1965 FISHERY LANDINGS 



Commercial landings of fish and shellfish 

 in 1965 totaled 19,6 nnillion pounds valued at 

 $3.6 million. Compared with 1964, this was 

 a gain of about $6,9 million pounds, up 54,3 

 percent in quantity, and $754,434, up 26,5 per- 

 cent in value. Tuna (albacore, bigeye, blue - 

 fin, little tuna, skipjack, and yellowfin) ac- 

 counted for 89.1 percent of quantity and 74.0 

 percent of value. 





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PACIFIC OCEAN / ^s. 



Skipjack tuna is the major item of the fish- 

 ery. The catch in 1965 totaled 16,2 million 

 pounds valued at $2,0 million compared with 

 9.0 million pounds worth $1.2 millionin 1964. 



The higher valued bigeye and bluefin tuna 

 landings amounted to 773,872 pounds with ex- 

 vessel value of $471,006 in 1965--down some- 

 what from 1964 landings of 839,485 pounds 

 valued at $493,568. 



The 1965 Hawaiian landings also included 

 497,626 pounds of yellowfin tuna, 449,571 

 pounds of bigeye scad, 384,955 pounds of 

 striped marlin, 233,530 pounds of snapper, 

 190,047 pounds of jack mackerel, and 171,753 

 pounds of black marlin. 



Oahu led the Hawaiian Islands with 15.6 

 million pounds, 79.7 percent of the total. The 



