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the edible portions of the fish and how such
material was present,
In the first place we didn't catch
very good fish, we weren't very good fisher=
men, we bought three from a Chinese fishing
vessel which we hailed off the coast of
Mert’.
The only incident I'd like to bring
up is the fact that after about ten minutes
they managed to run up a Chinese Nationalist
- Flag but we felt that if our ship had had a
Russian flag they could have gotten a Communist
flag up in ten seconds,
(Laughter)
They had to dig into the sea locker
to get that,
Our general conclusions from this
cruise roughly wae, that there wae widespread
low level activity throughout the Pacific with
a& maximum velue of about six hundred D/K per
liter and that the plankton ran roughly a
thousand times the sea water at times; that
is, a liter of water was roughly equivalent
to a gram of plankton and that there was concentration in the current streams.
When it came to fish, a few fish that
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