A FORECAST FOR THE ENSUING OIL-SARDINE FISHERY

The ability to foreca st the course of events likely to be encountered during the approaching fishery season enhances the value of fishery research in the eyes of those in the industry , As Simpson (1956) has put it, "Apart from the value to the industry of forecasting, predicting what is going to happen and checking it against the actual events is to the fishery biologist one form of the universal research tool of formulating a hypothesis and putting it to test.