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Lends Gear for Winter Hake Fishery 



Again this year, BCF's Seattle Base is 

 .lending depth telemetry gear to vessel own- 

 ers who have markets for the winter hake 

 fishery in Puget Sound. Last year, this fish- 

 ery produced about 6 million pounds. Some 

 vessels already have the gear and started 

 fishing. 



Also, the captain of the commercial trawl- 

 er "Radio" has offered the use of his vessel 

 for experimental fishing for herring with a 

 BCF-owned midwater anchovy trawl. The 

 Seattle Base will provide gear and personnel 

 to implement the study. 



Keel Laid for BCF Exploratory Vessel 



On November 3, the keel was laid for the 

 exploratory fishing research vessel "Dela- 

 ware II," at the South Portland Engineering 

 Co., Maine. The vessel willbe commissioned 

 in late 1967. 



The 155-foot, 1,000-hp. Delaware II will 

 replace the Gloucester-based Delaware as 

 BCF's primary vessel for fisheries explora- 

 tion and gear research in the western North 

 Atlantic north of Cape Hatteras. The vessel, 

 of stern trawler design, also will be used to 

 demonstrate commercial stern trawling tech- 

 niques to an industry largely founded on side 

 trawling. 



The Delaware now in service is a familiar 

 sight along the northeast coast. The 148-foot 

 side trawler was built for commercial serv- 

 ice in Maine in 1937, saw extensive naval serv- 

 ice in World War II, and was used by the Ger- 

 man fishing industry in the years right after 

 the war. Since 1949, it has been used in BCF's 

 fishery technological and exploratory fishing 

 offshore research programs. 



Dr. J. L. McHugh Named 

 BCF Acting Deputy Director 



Dr. J. L. McHugh, who has been Assistant 

 Director for Biological Research since join- 

 ing BCF in 1959, has been named Acting Deputy 

 Director. He succeeds Harold E. Crowther, 

 the newly designated Acting Director. 



For 8 years before coming to BCF, Dr. 

 McHugh was Director of the Virginia Fisher- 

 ies Laboratory and Professor of Marine Bi- 

 ology at the College of William and Mary, Wil- 

 liamsburg, Va. 



He was born in 

 Vancouver, B. C, 

 and received his 

 bachelor's and 

 master's degrees 

 from the Univer- 

 sity of British 

 Columbia. He 

 served the Bio- 

 logical Staff of 

 Canada's Fish- 

 eries Research 

 Boardfrom 1938 

 until 1941. Dur- 

 ing World War II, 

 he was an infantry 

 officer with the 



Dr. J. L. McHugh 



Canadian Army in England and France. 



After earning his doctor of philosophy de- 

 gree at the University of California's Scripps 

 Institution of Oceanography, Dr. McHugh 

 moved to Virginia to head the State's marine 

 behavior program at Gloucester Point. He 

 became a United States citizen in 1958. 



He is the author of 70 publications on fish- 

 ery biology, ichthyology, and biological ocean- 

 ography, a member of scientific societies, 

 and a trustee of the International Oceanogra- 

 phic Foundation. He has been a member of 

 many United States delegations to international 

 fishery meetings in Europe, Latin America, 

 and the Far East. 



