CalCOFI Reports, Vol. 10, 1965

Contents

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I. Review of Activities

   1. Review of Activities July 1, 1962-June 30, 1963

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   2. Review of pelagic wet fisheries during the 1960-61 season

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   3. Publications

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II. Scientific Contributions

 1.  Symposium on larval fish biology

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     Preface

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     a.  On the importance of larval survival for the population dynamics

           of marine food fish

           Gotthilf Hempel 

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     b.  Problems of fish larvae survival in nature and the rearing of economically

           important middle European freshwater fishes

           Wilhelm Einsele

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     c.  Kinds and abundance of fishes in the California Current region based

         on egg and larval surveys

         Elbert H. Ahlstrom

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     d. Rearing marine fish for commercial purposes

         James E. Shelbourne

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     e. Functional development of visual pathway in larval sardines and anchovies

         Horst 0. Schuassman

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     f.  Some aspects of behavior in clupeid larvae

         George 0. Schumann

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     g. The f eeding of herring larvae and their ecology in relation to feeding

         J. H. S. Blaxter

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     h. Osmoregulation in marine teleost eggs and larvae

         F. G. T. Holliday

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     i. The physiology of Pacific sardine embryos and larvae

         Reuben Lasker

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     j. Larval sardine and anchovy interrelationships

         John D. Isaacs

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 2.  Climatic implications derived from the comparison of bathythermograph (BT)

     data with two types of historic and modern sea surface data

       Margret K. Robinson

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