Marquesas Area Oceanographic And Fishery Data January March 1957

Excerpt from Marquesas Area Oceanographic and Fishery Data: January-March 1957 Three pofi research vessels were assigned to the survey, each with a different primary mission. The oceanic circulation and productivity of a broad area about the Marque sas was studied by the Hugh M. Smith. The Charles H. Gilbert obtained a measure of the tuna available to live -bait fishing and surface trolling, while the John R. Manning investigated the availability of deep-swimming tuna to long line gear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This report presents meteorological, oceanographic and fishery data collected aboard the Honolulu Biological Laboratory research vessel, Charles H. Gilbert, and a chartered West Coast tuna clipper, Cape Falcon, on expeditions to the southeastern Pacific Ocean centered in the Marquesas Islands during January-March 1959.