. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 70. Fig. 2 -The area under investigation by TABL marine scientists and some of the research operations. waters offWest Africa from the Congo River north to the Cape Verde Islands, under the sponsorship of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. The finding of potential commercial quantities of tuna and other fishery resources made it feasible to continue investigations in the area of the Gulf of Guinea. Broad objectives of the Laboratory are: (1) to obtain and make available to fish- ermen knowledge needed to increase tota
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 70. Fig. 2 -The area under investigation by TABL marine scientists and some of the research operations. waters offWest Africa from the Congo River north to the Cape Verde Islands, under the sponsorship of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. The finding of potential commercial quantities of tuna and other fishery resources made it feasible to continue investigations in the area of the Gulf of Guinea. Broad objectives of the Laboratory are: (1) to obtain and make available to fish- ermen knowledge needed to increase total fishery yield at reduced costs; (2) to assist fishermen to increase the yield of marine protein food resources from the tropical At- lantic Ocean; and (3) to provide knowledge needed to develop and apply sound conserva- tion policies, particularly for Atlantic tunas. The Laboratory's several significant con- tributions during its short period of existence include: participation with other nations in discovery of Guinea Undercurrent and Atlan- tic Equatorial Undercurrent; participation in first transmission of oceanic data from a re- search vessel on station via communications satellite (NASA's Syncom II) to ashore-based receiving center (National Oceanographic Da- ta Center, Washington, ) and return of corrected data to vessel; coordination of a statistical and biological sampling program with West African countries; publication (by the American Geological Society) of an atlas of mean monthly sea surface temperatures in tropical Atlantic between Africa and South America from about 3 million observations; and preparation of more than 170 scientific papers. The Laboratory is carrying out re- search necessary for the participation of the in the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas. A program of intensive investigation of large stocks of calico scallops found off the coast of northern Florida was begun in 1969. Visiting investigators are welcom
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