. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. BCF MIAMI SCIENTISTS STUDY FLORIDA CALICO SCALLOPS Ann Weeks Scientists of BCF's Tropical Atlantic Bio- logical Laboratory (TABL), Miami, Fla., con- ducted their tenth cruise to calico scallop grounds off Cape Kennedy from March 28 to April 3 aboard the 83-foot research vessel 'Bowers' of BCF Pascagoula, Miss. The 5-man team was directed by Thomas J. Costello, chief of the calico scallop program; it consisted of 3 biologists and 2 technicians, much of whose research was done underwater. What They Did They positioned a second diving buoy nea
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. BCF MIAMI SCIENTISTS STUDY FLORIDA CALICO SCALLOPS Ann Weeks Scientists of BCF's Tropical Atlantic Bio- logical Laboratory (TABL), Miami, Fla., con- ducted their tenth cruise to calico scallop grounds off Cape Kennedy from March 28 to April 3 aboard the 83-foot research vessel 'Bowers' of BCF Pascagoula, Miss. The 5-man team was directed by Thomas J. Costello, chief of the calico scallop program; it consisted of 3 biologists and 2 technicians, much of whose research was done underwater. What They Did They positioned a second diving buoy near one that has been in place 6 months as a marker for an ocean-floor research station. They installed new sensing devices on the bot- tom, obtained scallops for age-growth and tissue study at TABL, marked and released more scallops for later study, and installed special devices on the bottom and in the water column to collect infant scallops. Stepped-Up BCF Program Dr, Carl J, Sindermann, TABL director, said the intensive investigation of calico scal- lop stocks is part of a heightened BCF effort tohelp commercial fishermen land sat- isfactory catches of profitable seafood spe- cies. He added: "Ordinarily we in the field of marine biology do not indulge in superlatives, but the caUco scallop beds--which cover 1,200 square miles just off the north Florida coast-- seem nothing short of ; Estimates by BCF and the fishing industry, barring ca- tastrophes, predict an eventual annual catch, perhaps as early as 1975, of 15-20 million pounds. The figure breaks down to an ex- pected annual catch of about a half-million pounds by each of 30 vessels. Sindermann said: "in view of the whole- sale price of about $ per pound paid for calico scallops last year, it's easy to see that this exciting new fishery could be immensely valuable to our ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enha
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