Institute; the Charles W. Brown. Jr. Memorial 

 Foundation; the Tournament of Champions 

 (through Mrs. R.C. Kunkel and E.D. Martin); A. 

 Minis, Jr.; the Joseph A. Teti, Jr. Foundation; the 

 Port Aransas Rod and Reel Club; P.A.B. Widener; 

 the Jersey Cape Fishing Tournament; the As- 

 sociates of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu- 

 tion; and many other sportsmen's organizations and 

 individual sportsmen. 



The National Marine Fisheries Service and its 

 predecessor, the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, 

 the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, 

 the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, the Food 

 and Agriculture Organization of the United Na- 

 tions, and many other national and private research 

 organizations have assisted in the promoting of the 

 tagging of fishes, the collection and processing of 

 data, and the dissemination of information on the 

 program and its results. The contributions of 

 Donald P. de Sylva and Gilbert L. Voss are espe- 

 cially appreciated. 



The tagging results were made possible by the 

 thousands of anglers, captains, and mates who have 

 tagged, and released many of their catches, and the 

 clubs, committees and individuals who have en- 

 couraged tagging. We regret that space does not 

 permit individual acknowledgements here; the 

 major participants are listed in the informal pro- 

 gress reports which are issued periodically by 

 WHOI. Most of the participants in the RSM AS and 

 PARR programs have also participated in the 

 WHOI program. The press and the broadcasting 

 media have also done much to encourage tagging 

 and the return of tags. 



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