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Contribution to the Biology of the Albacore (Germa alalunga) of the Oregon Coast and Other Parts of the North Pacific

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Originator: Brock, Vernon E.
Publish Date: 1943
Online Link: None
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Contact Information
Agency: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Name: Cedric Cooney
Job Position: Natural Resources Data and Systems Manager
Telephone: 503-947-6094
E-Mail Address: Cedric.X.Cooney@odfw.oregon.gov
Description
Abstract: In 1937 the albacore, Germo alalunga (Gmelin), perhaps the most valuable of all the tunas, was found in large numbers off the Oregon coast and since then has been the object of an intensive fishery, Canneries have been established, boats have been built, various other provisions have been made for the exploitation of these fish and the market has come to depend upon this fishery as an important source of supply. The new industry is of very considerable economic importance to the state but the soundness of the development must, obviously, depend on the stability of the supply of fish that provides the raw material. If the resource is such that it may reasonably be expected to yield a constant supply the development is sound. If, on the other hand, the supply is likely to fail through over-fishing, or the fish to be irregular in their appearance on the fishing grounds for some unknown causes, the industry may suddenly fail and serious economic disturbance result. Some 25 or 30 years ago albacore were abundant off the coast of California and formed the basis of a productive fishery. Suddenly, however, the abundance was greatly reduced .and the fish have not again appeared in.anything like their former numbers. This has given rise to the opinion, perhaps justified, that the albacore fishery of the eastern Pacific is likely to prove an unstable one. The cause, or causes, of the sudden reduction in the abundance of the albacore off the coast of California has never been determined. It has been variously explained as the consequence of over-exploitation, of the incidence of a series of years in which, for one reason or another, reproduction or survival of the young was poor, or as a result of a shift in the geographic distribution of the species. Whether the albacore appeared in abundance suddenly off the Oregon coast or whether the species had been there in years prior to 1937 is not known, If it did appear suddenly the cause of this is not known. Because the species is wide in its distribution over the north Pacific it has been impossible to satisfactorily answer these questions with the available data which are, for the most part, local in nature. Yet, obviously, these questions must be answered if the industry is to plan its future investments prudently and if conservation agencies, such as the Oregon Fish Commission, are to determine their policies on a rational basis. Shortly after the albacore fishery was started in Oregon, the Department of Research of the Fish Commission of Oregon initiated a program of research into the biology of the albacore and the albacore fishery. This paper presents the results of the first four years of this study. It describes certain biological features of the albacore populations of the Pacific Coast with emphasis on those of Oregon and presents a review of all available material on the species from other parts of the north Pacific insofar as this material bears on the fishery problems.

Purpose: Contribution No. 10, Department of Research, Fish Commission of Oregon.

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Geographic Extent: Pacific Ocean
Status: Final
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Data Quality Information
Lineage-Source: Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, Vol 2, No 7, pages 199-248, 1943. Inquiries in regard to exchange should be addressed to the Editor of the Bulletin, Natural History Museum, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. Copies of this issue may be purchased from the Director of the Museum, price $1.00.


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Field Name Value
Biblio ID 2988
Year 1944
Publisher
Request Type Report
Location Salem HQ
Date Created 1944
Date Cataloged 6/4/2007
Date Published 1944
Type bppl
Pages 199-248
Volume 10
Status 2
Descriptor Albacore; Coast, OR (Combined with # 9 in same book)
Date Entered 2007-06-04 00:00:00
Location In Clackamas Library Albacore, S wall, E end
Author Vernon E Brock
Duplicates 1
Number Remaining After Requests
Presumed All Distributed
Back Room Duplicates 19
Author Brock, V.E.
Risk
Species
Disposition Of Requests Jean McCrae - 2: Request filled


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