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PACIFIC SCIENCE, Vol. XIV, April I960 
TABLE 1 
Records of the Marquesan Sardine ( Harengula vittata) in Hawaiian Waters 
RELEASES 
! RECOVERIES 
Date 
Locality 
Esti- 
mated 
num- 
ber 
Fork length 
(mm.) 
range and 
mean 
Date 
Locality 
Num- 
ber 
Fork length 
(mm.) 
range and 
mean 
12-17-55 
Barbers Point, 
Oahu 
11,000 
66-115 (88) 
9-26-56 
Hanauma Bay, 
Oahu 
7,000 
76-127 (101) 
9-27-56 
Kalihi Channel, 
Oahu 
1 
106 
3-22-57 
Pokai Bay, 
Oahu 
27,000 
78-116 (94) 
3-26-57 
Kaneohe Bay, 
Oahu 
1 
90 
3-27-57 
Kalihi Channel, 
Oahu 
1 
90 
4- 8-57 
Kaneohe Bay, 
Oahu 
4 
87-93 (91) 
6- 4-57 
Kaneohe Bay, 
Oahu 
1 
103 
9- 9-57 
Barbers Point, 
Oahu 
6 
120-145 (134) 
12-14-57 
Ewa, Oahu 
31,000 
90-111 (99) 
2-25-58 
Ewa, Oahu 
53,000 
72-123 (98) 
2-28-58 
Honolulu 
Harbor, Oahu 
4 
82-101 (92) 
4-29-58 
Pearl Harbor, 
Oahu 
3 
108-114 (111) 
5- 2-58 
Ewa, Oahu 
8,000 
47-134 (102) 
6-23-58 
Maunalua Bay, 
Oahu 
3,000 
84-115 (101) 
6-27-58 
Honolulu 
Harbor, Oahu 
1 
102 
6-30-58 
Kaneohe Bay, 
Oahu 
1 
105 
7- 5-58 
Kihei, Maui 
10 
Not examined 
9-10-58 
Port Allen, 
Kauai 
6 
67-72 (70) 
9-23-58 
Kaneohe Bay, 
Oahu 
1 
62 
9-25-58 
Hanalei Bay, 
Kauai 
6 
74-84 (80) 
10- 2-58 
Port Allen, 
Kauai 
6 
43-84 (71) 
10- 7-58 
Kihei, Maui 
29 
37-61 (52) 
evaluate the program completely to date; the 
passage of time will furnish definitive informa- 
tion in this respect. The pattern of recoveries in 
Table 1 however does permit optimism. The 
first release yielded no recoveries and the second 
was followed the next day by a single recovery. 
There were no additional recoveries until a few 
days after the next release on March 22, 1957, 
about six months later. It is significant that this 
planting was nearly three times as large as its 
predecessors and was followed by a number of 
recoveries culminating in the capture of six 
