The season's landings of Pacific sardines at Northern California ports totaled 82,715 tons by Sept. 16, or about 22 per cent below last year's catch

This is a news release written by Rachel Carson as part of the Department of the Interior Information Service, Office of the Cooridnator of Fisheries. This was for "office distribution only." This report states that the number of Pacific sardines at California ports was 22 per cent below last years total for the specific time period. Biologists credit this to poor spawning periods, cool summer weather, and lack of young fish added to the stock since 1939. Fishery industry;