Excerpt from Progress in 1967-68 at the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory, Honolulu The Hawaii Area of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries covers a wide reach of the tropical and subtropical Pacific Ocean (fig. Between Palau in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, where the Hawaii Area maintains a field station, and the Laboratory in Honolulu lie more than miles of ocean, a distance about as great as that between New York and Rome, Italy. The second field sta tion, at Pago Pago, American Samoa, south of the Equator, is 5 hours and 10 minutes by jet flight from Hawaii. From Honolulu northwest to Weather Station Victor, 1 of 10 Pacific locations from which the Laboratory maintains continuing data collections, is more than nautical miles. 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.