CONTENTS 



Page 



Dedications 1 



General report 1 



Introduction 1 



Background 1 



Opening session 1 



Officers and organization of work 4 



Officers of the Symposium 4 



Organization of work 4 



Sectional reports 4 



Species identification , 4 



Life history 4 



Distribution 5 



Fisheries 5 



Special session: Mercury in billfishes 6 



Presentations 6 



Discussion 7 



Special session: Sportsmen-scientists 8 



Symposium summary 8 



Panel presentation 9 



Discussion 15 



Acknowledgment 18 



Annexes 



1. List of participants 19 



2. Welcoming address by the Honorable Shunichi Kimura 23 



3. Opening address by Philip M. Roedel 24 



4. Address by Michio Takata 26 



5. Address by J. Thomas Stuart III 26 



6. Address by Peter Fithian 27 



7. Text of cable from F. E. Popper 27 



8. Potential health hazards of mercury in fish by Albert C. Kolbye 28 



9. Status of mercury studies in Hawaii by Richard A. Marland 30 



10. Definitions and methods of measuring and counting in the billfishes (Istiophoridae, Xiphiidae) 



by Luis Rene Rivas 31 



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