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Title: Commercial fisheries review
Identifier: commercialfish301968unit (find matches)
Year: 1946 (1940s)
Authors: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service; U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; United States. Bureau of Commericial Fisheries
Subjects: Fisheries; Fish trade
Publisher: (Washington) : National Marine Fisheries Service; (for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt. Print. Off. )
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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56 THE LATE-SUMMER WATERS OF THE GULF OF MEXICO By Reed S. Armstrong* and John R. Grady* After being chased by two hurricanes, "Beulah" and^'Fern", BCF's R/V "Geronimo" returned to its home port of Galveston, Texas, on Oct. 8, 1967. It had finished what probably was the most comprehensive hydrographic survey of a sea ever made. Cruise 16, which began August 14, was the second in a series ofhydrographic surveys of the Gulf of Mexico. Each cruise is designed to cover all waters of the Gulf with the goals of describing the sea and determining how the waters and currents change in time. We occupied 151 hydrographic stations (fig. 1) using Nansen bottles with reversing ther- mometers at standard depths. A total of 298 bathythermograph casts was made; samples of surface water for salinity determinations were drawn at each lowering. Salinity and
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Fig. 1 - Cruise plan for cruise 16, "All Gulf 11, " of R/V Geronimo, Aug. 14-Oct. 8, 1967. Numbered stations (heavy dots) are used in figures 2-4. ♦Research Oceanographers, BCF, Galveston, Texas. Note: Contribution No. 258, BCF Biological Laboratory, Galveston, Texas 77550. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service Sep. No. 823

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