74 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW VoL 1 7 , No. 12 RECENT FISHERY PUBLICATIONS FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE Sport ~hSh46Y Abstracts, vol. 1, no. 1, Abstracts PUBLICATIONS -r--l, pp., processed, July 1955. Sport Fishery Abstracts, vol. 1, no. 2, Abstracts, 161-314,56 pp., processed, October 1955. THESE PROCESSED PUBLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE FREE fROM THE DIVISION Of INfORMATION, ~. S. fiSH AND WILDLifE SERV­ THE fOLLOWING SERVICE PUBLICATION IS AVAILABLE ~ ICE, WASHINGTON 25, D. C. TYPES OF PijBLICATIONS ARE OESIG­ fROM THE SPECifiC OffiCE MENTIONED; NATED AS fOLLOWS: CfS - CURRENT fiSHERY STATISTICS Of THE UNITED STATES AND ALASKA. Gulf States Production of FiSher? Products for fL - fiSHERY LEAfLE1S. ~e"Tected Areas, 1954,by . Denham, ~p., SSR.- fiSH. - SPECIAL SCIENTifiC REPORTS--fISHERIES (LIHITED DISTRIBUTION). illus., processed, November 1955. (Available SEP.- SEPARATES (REPRINTS) fROM COMMERCIAL FISHERIES free from the Market News Service, U. S. Fish ~. and Wildlife Service, 609-11 Federal Bldg., New Orleans 12, La.) This report consists of two Number Title parts. The first part discusses the trends and CFS-1192 - Gulf Fishenes - 1953, Annual Summary, conditions in the Gulf Coast fisheries in 1954 10 pp. and gives a resume of the individual fisheries. CFS-1198 - Massachusetts Landings, July 1955, 5 pp. For the shrimp fishery a detailed account is CFS-1205 - Frozen Fish, August 1955, 8 pp. given of the general conditions, total landings, CFS-1209 - Texas Landings, August 1955, 3 pp. composition of the landings by species, ex­ CFS-1210 - Maine Landings, July 1955, 4 pp. vesse 1 prices at certain areas in Louisiana and CFS-1211 - Fish Meal and Oil, August 1955, 2 pp. Texas, the canned pack, and data on cold-stor­ CFS-1212 - Alabama Landings, July 1955,2 pp. age freezings and holdings. Production and CFS-1213 - Florida Landings, July 1955, 6 pp. market conditions for the oyster, blue crab, and CFS-1214 - New Jersey Landings, August 1955, finfish fisheries are included in the summary, 2 pp. as well as the significant developments in these CFS-1217 - North Carolina Landings, August 1955, fisheries. The second part contains statistical 2 pp. tables - -a monthly fishery production index for CFS-1219 - MisSissippi Landings, July 1955, 2 pp. selected Gulf States areas; total landings by CFS-1222 - Maine Landings, August 1955, 4 pp. areas and species; total landings of selected FL -336z - Quarterly Outlook for Marketing Fish- areas by species and months; landings of fish­ ery Products, 33 pp. ery products by areas and species by months; Sep. No. 419 - Bone Detection in Fish by X-Ray crab meat production by areas and months; fish­ Examination. ery imports through the New Orleans Customs Sep. No. 420 - How to Cook Frozen Fish Without District and Port Isabel and Brownsville, Tex.; Prethawing - Part I - Determination of Opti­ and weekly canned oyster and shrimp packs. mum Internal Temperature for Baked Frozen Tables showing the monthly range of wholesale Halibut Steaks. prices of fishery products on the New Orleans Sep. No. 421 - Research in Service Laboratories French market, a summary of Gulf shrimp land­ (November 1955): ings for selected areas, monthly LCL express Effect of Cooking Oil Quality and Storage Con­ shipments from New Orleans by months and by ditions on the Keeping Quality of Frozen Fried destination, and fishery products market classi­ Fish Sticks. fications in the Gulf area are also included. The Freshness Tests for Tuna. areas covered by the report are: Mobile and Commercial-Scale Free zing-Fish -at -Sea Trip Bayou LaBatre, Ala.; Pascagoula and Biloxi, Made by Delaware. Miss.; New Orleans and Lower Mississippi Feeding Studles wlth Menhaden Press Cake River, Golden Meadow, Houma, Chauvin, Dulac, Pilot Reduction Plant. Morgan City, Berwick, Patterson, and Delcam­ Conference of Contractors Doing Research on bre, La.; Galveston, Freeport, Port Lavaca, Southern Oysters. Palacios, Aransas Pass, Rockport, Corpus Cold-Storage Life of Fresh-Water Fish--No. 2 Christi, Port Isabel, and Brownsville, Tex. (Yellow Perch, Crappie, White Bass, Utah Chub, and Sqawfishl. THE fOLLOWING SERVICE PUBLICATIONS ARE fOR SALE AND ARE AVAILABLE ~ ~ ~ SUPERINTEND ENT Q[ DOCUMENTS, SSR-Fish. No. 161 - Zooplankton Volumes off the WASHINGTON 25, D.C . Pacific Coast, 1954, 37 pp., processed, Septem­ Check List of the Fishes and Fishlike Vertebrates ber 1955. of North and Middle America North of the North­ SSR-Fish. No. 163- Commercial Fishery for Chubs ern Boundary of Venezuela and Colombia, by (Ciscoes) in Lake Michigan Through 1953, by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann, Ralph Hile and Howard J. Buettner, 52 pp., illus., and Howard Walton Clark, 671 pp., printed, $3, processed, October 1955. 1955. This check list was issued originally in 1930. D ecember 1955 COMMERCL\L FISHERIES REVIE 7 Since there was no pi ospect of a compl t r'­ vision, and becausI' it will continu 0 hf' a val­ uable reference for i, hthyologlst~ and fish ry conservation work rs, the ch 'ck hst was r - issued in Its original form. It compTlses a list of all the fishes and fishlike vertebrates known to occur in the waters of north and mid­ dle America, more specifically all of continent­ al America north of the Isthmu!O of Panama, and the outlying islands includlOgthe West Indl 5, the Greater and lesser Antilles, Greenland, Ice- The land, and the islands off the Pacific coast of -:-."..-:::-.....-:-::-: -+-:-;-.,.-..,.,..,. o. Central America, Mexico, th United Stat s, and Alaska. The sait-water species on the northern coasts of Colombia and Ven zuela have been included. Those of the Galapagos, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the west coast of Kam- chatka are not included. The list gives (1) the A names of all species and subsp cies that th --,--,:--__n authors admitted as valid, (2) as many of the ,;,..-''''-'-T-''---. vernacular or common names for each species as were readily obtainable; (3) the known geo­ graphic distribution of each species, (4) the reference to the original description of the species; and (5) the reference to every real synonym. Limnological Effects ~ Fertilizin$ Bare Lake, Alaska, byl51i1ITPR. Nelson ana w-:-T.~ond­ son, Fishery Bulletin 102 (From Fishery Bul­ letin of the Fish and Wildlife Service, vol 56), 25 pp., illus., printed, 20 cents, 1955. Relative Abundance of Maryland Shad,1944 -52, by Charles H. Walbur g, Researcfi1teport 38;-2'0 pp. iUus., printed, 15=nts, 1955. Eachyearthe Maryland Department of Research and Education obtains catch and effort statistics from all com­ mercial shad fishermen in Maryland waters as part of the Maryland Management Plan. These data for the years 1944 to 1952 were used in con­ junction with a tagging experiment, to estimate fishing effort, fishing rate, catch, size of run, and spawning escapement for each of these years . It was found that effort had increased almost two­ fold, despite the operation of a plan design"d to keep it constant. The evaluation of the relation between factors which might cause changes in the size of the Maryland shad population is compltcat­ ed because the effect of the Virginia shad fisher) on the Maryland shad population i unknown. V. ith­ out knowledge of this effect, th influence of other fa tors affecting the Maryland populatIOn is ob­ scured. Before Maryland can Inteillgentl) man­ age her shad fisher ',Virginia mu -t establish a system of collecting catch and effort stat iStlCS. With each State collecting these tatist\cs, th shad fishery of Chesap ake Bay could he ~tudled S a unit to determine the b st m nagement m hod MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICA TION. r 76 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW VoL 17, No. 12 THESE PUBLICAT IONS ~ ~ AVAILA BLE £BQM ~ ~ AMQ ~ ~~, ~ USU ALLr MA r BE OBTAINEO FROM THE ORGANIZATIONS ~~ . regulations; cooperative development of the orgamsms that are being studied are the eu­ fisheries; loans granted to'individual fisher­ phausiid s hrimp. These hl*hly pelagic crusta­ men, unregistered fishing groups, and regis­ ceans, popularly known as 'krill," occur in tered cooperative fishing societies; extension large swarms in all oc ans in both ner itic a nd of new fishing methods and their development; oceantc waters. Th y ar cons ld r d second mechanization of fishing craft; fresh-water fish­ in importance only to the cope pods as basic ery development; fish marketing; curing of fish­ animal food In th s a but often exceed the cope­ ery products; and manufacture of fishery by­ pods in mass and numbers, espeCially at great­ products. Statistical data are also included on er depths. The present report deals with the the production of fresh and cured fish, and im­ group taxonomically on a wide geographiC basis. ports and exports of fishery products and by­ Th chief purpose of th report IS to provide an products. essential tool With complete descriptIOns and illustrations to facilitate further study of the Clam (MYA ARENARlA) Breakage in Maine, by biology of th euphausilds and their relation to ~oberrr.. Dow, Dana E. Wallace ancn:::o-uis N. the pelagic commumty of the PacifIc . Such a Taxiarchis, Research Report no. 15, 2 pp., study is now under way, and it IS behev d that processed. Maine Department of Sea and Shore applicallon of knowledge of the vanous species, Fisheries, Augusta, Me., January 1954. their geographic ranges, concentratIOns, and reproductive areas will yield pertinent informa­ Codificacion de Estadisticas Pesqeras (Codifica­ tion relative to the importance of different oce­ tion of Flsneries Stati.stics), by Carlos Gonzalez, antc currents and water masses in the manne Publicacion Miscelanea No. 346, 22 pp., proc­ ecology of our coasts. Among the rrarine ani ­ essed, in Spanish. Ministerio de Agncultura y mals that are known to feed upon the euphausilds Ganaderia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1951. are especially such flsh as the hernng and sar­ dine, and also the whalebone whales whose diet Contribution a L'etude des Especes du Genre IS, desplte thelr huge Size, almost exclusively TRACHURUS""eTSj:)ec'iaIement du 1'ttAC1f(JRUS plankton .