INTRODUCTION
HOW THE WORK IS DONE
- The Ships
- The Station Plan
- Collection of Data
- Processing of Data
- Instrumentation
- Midwater Trawl
- High-Speed Gear
- Floating Fish - Larvae Trap
- Plankton-Sample Splitter
- ChlorinityTitrator
- ASOP
- Other Projects
- Use of Soundings to Locate Sardine Schools
- Studies of the Sardine's Environment
- Physical Oceanography
- Upwelling
- Mixing
- Evaporation
- Internal Waves
- Delineation of Spawning Areas
- Problems of Processing
- Chemical Oceanography
- Biological Oceanography
- Marine Botany
- Marine Invertebrate Plankton
- Crustacean Plankton
- Dispersal by Water Currents
- Plankton Volumes
- Recruitment Research
- The 1950 Sardine Spawning Season
- Relation of Sardine Spawning to Oceanographic Conditions
- Work on Other Fishes
- Young of Other Fishes Associated with the Sardine
- Jack Mackerel
- Anchovy
- Saury
- Other Food Fishes
- Fodder Fishes
- Adults of Other Fishes
- Northern Anchovy
- Herring-Like Fishes
- Albacore
- Young of Other Fishes Associated with the Sardine
- The 1950 Young Sardine Surveys
- Methods of Approach
- Methods of Collection
- Limitations
- The 1950 Work
- Availability
- Behavior and Physiology
- Feeding Behavior
- Schooling Behavior
- Miscellaneous Observations
- Electrical Stimulation of Fish in Sea Water
- Conditions of Experiments
- Definitions of Terms
- Tabulations of Records and Results
- Conclusions
- Continuing Studies
- Length Frequencies
- Age Determinations
- Racial Studies
- Vital Statistics
- Marine Birds and Mammals
PLANS FOR 1951
APPENDIX 1: Personnel Engaged in Research Under California Cooperative Sardine Research Program
APPENDIX 2: Current Projects Under California Cooperative Sardine Research Program
