Yuna Pishing At the same time, we made arrangements for such monitoring at ionolulu, and I had twe survey instruments dispatched by air for their use anc asked or. Oscar Sette of the Pacific Oceanic Fishery Investigations in Honolulu to act as consultant to Mr. George Akau, the Food and Drug representatives On receiving information from Mr. Eisenbud that the Japanese were conducting a thorourh examination of incoming tuna and hac Jound no significant contamination save on the fish of the Fukuryu baru, and with the further consideracome to a state of arrest and approximately tion that avout 2,000 tons of fish 200,000 cases of packed tuna were involved in a panic situation, I requested Mr. Eisenbud to suggest to the Japanese that they proceed with the pack on the assurance that the chance of there being contaminated fish was negligible and that the American authorities do not act capriciously. This advice was passed by radio-telephone on March 25 and by message No. 212), through the Department of State. In conversations with the Food and Drug Administration involving Mr. James R. Cribbett, Mr. Wallace Jenson, and FDA Commissioner Crawford, it was agreed that the FDA could respond to a specific question with a re-assuring statenent which could be released. It was concluded that the Ambassador could ask this question and the reply given to him to isgue as a public statement, quoting the FDA. The matter was passed to Mr. Morse Salisbury at this point, and these moves were carried through and the statement was released in Japan by Ambagsador Allison that the Food and Drug Administration felt there was no cause for apprehension. I also talked with Mr. id Cameron, Washington representative of the National Canner's Association, and suggested to him that it might be well te aivise the members of the Association that since the market was paralyzed due to psychological factors and panic, to suspend their normal operations might result in a spread of panic to the consumers market in this country. Er. Cameron said he realized the importance of this and would informally so advise their membership. Catch in the Marshall Area. We have reliaple information from Mr. S. Shapiro, Wish and Wildlite service and from ir. Osear Sette of the Pacific Oceanic Fishery investigations in flonolulu that the Marshall Islands area, particularly that to the north of the dikini atoll, is poor fishing ground for tana, and that, hore than 1% of the total Japanese catch comes from this entire area. Prior to the war, when this group of islands were completely controlled by the Japanese, they did very little fishing in this region. It seems to have become popular with them now that the Marshalls are being used for weapone testing. Currents and Sailing Problems. From the pilot charts published by the U. S. Hydrographic Office for the North Pacific, it apvears that during this tine of year there is a current through the Marshall Islands area that generally