. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 34 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 19, No. 11 By contrast, the September 9 recaptures were 6 months after the latest release (March 22). The specimens were about twice as heavy as the largest size planted, indicating that they grow well here. Even more significant, the females were ap- proaching spawning, suggesting that conditions here are favorable to reproduction. Whether they will spawn and eventually contribute to the economy of Hawaii remains to be seen. Present indications are favorable. SPAWNING ALBACORE TUNA SOUGHT OFF AMERICAN SA
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 34 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 19, No. 11 By contrast, the September 9 recaptures were 6 months after the latest release (March 22). The specimens were about twice as heavy as the largest size planted, indicating that they grow well here. Even more significant, the females were ap- proaching spawning, suggesting that conditions here are favorable to reproduction. Whether they will spawn and eventually contribute to the economy of Hawaii remains to be seen. Present indications are favorable. SPAWNING ALBACORE TUNA SOUGHT OFF AMERICAN SAMOA: Persistent efforts of fishery scientists to seek out the spawning habits of the albacore tuna re- cently took POFI research biologist all the way to American Samoa in search of ex- pectant females. According to the director of the Honolulu Research Laboratory of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, the albacore is one of the widest ranging of the tunas, being taken in the temperate waters of both the North and South Pacific as well as in the tropical areas be- tween, but where it spawns and where its young develop is still a mystery to science. Comparative- ly small, as tunas go, the albacore is highly prized by canners because of the white color of its cooked meat. There are thriving fisher- ies for the surface-swimming schools of smaller albacore off the United States west coast and in the western Pacific off Japan, and production of the larger deep-swimming fish by Japanese long-line fishermen in tropical waters of the South Pacific has been increasing rapidly in recent years. Because of the great commercial value of the species. United States and foreign fishery scientists are in- tensively attacking the problems of its reproduction and early life history, but so far with little success. Albacore with ripe eggs are not taken in the major commer- cial fisheries, and attempts by Bureau research vessels to collect identifiable lar- vae in various areas of the central Pacif
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