Excerpt from Studies on the Pacific Pilchard or Sardine (Sardinops Caerulea) Out of the research activities and from these meetings there came evidence of the complexity of the problem of research on the sardine and of the need for clarifying relations between various phases of the re: search. These have been discussed periodically and at length within the staff of the South Pacific Investigations of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. At one of these staff meetings'was drafted a statement of ob jectives and of the information required to attain them. As the time for the 1942 conference approached, Dr. Richard Van Clqve, Chief of the Bureau of Marine Fisheries of the California Division of Fish and Game, suggested the desirability of a formulated outline as a guide for discussion. In collaboration with Vernon Brock of the Oregon Fish Commission, such an outline was drawn, following a procedural diagram which I constructed at the same time, and embodying results from our Service staff meetings and the suggestions of Dr. Van Cleve and Mr. Brock. The diagram mentioned Opposite thus represents the ideas of a number of persons. It was distributed and discussed at the 1942 meeting of the five agencies 'without eliciting demands for important revisions. Wmile the program is thus the product'of a number of persons, the exposition given herewith is that of the Fish and.ufildlife Service laboratory at Stanford University and includes argument on.what may be considered controversial topics. 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.