California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Records, 1949-2004

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Summary

Creators:
California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (Program)
Abstract:
The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) records include administrative files, conference and committee materials, reports, documentation and data collected during quarterly cruises from 1972-1974 and 1983-2004. Early materials document drift bottle studies from 1963-1982.
Extent:
53 Linear feet (100 archives boxes, 13 records cartons and 11 flat boxes)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Records, SAC 50. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.

Background

Scope and content:

The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) records include administrative files, conference and committee materials, reports, documentation and data collected during quarterly cruises from 1972-1974 and 1983-2004. Early materials document drift bottle studies from 1963-1982.

Arranged in three series: 1) DRIFT BOTTLE FILES, 2) CRUISE DATA, 3) ADMINISTRATIVE FILES.

Biographical / historical:

In 1949, the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) was formed to study the ecological aspects of the sardine population collapse off the coast of southern California. The effort, originally called the California Cooperative Sardine Research Program, was designed as a joint effort by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the California Department of Fish and Game, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the California Academy of Sciences. CalCOFI, still in operation, conducts quarterly cruises to collect hydrographic and biological data off the coast of southern and central California.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW TWO TO THREE (2-3) WEEKS FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.

Preferred citation:

California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Records, SAC 50. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.

Location of this collection:
9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0175
La Jolla, CA 92093-0175, US
Contact:
(858) 534-2533
spcoll@ucsd.edu
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