Bell Masayuki Shimada was an American fisheries scientist. He is noted for his study during the 1950s of tuna stocks in the tropical Pacific Ocean and its important effect on the development of the po
Bell Shimada
Bell M. Shimada (left) and Fred Cleaver examining skipjack tuna, circa 1951
Bell M. Shimada, circa 1957
Allen and Julie Shimada, at the commissioning ceremony for the ship named for their father, NOAAS Bell M. Shimada (R 227), in 2010.
NOAAS Bell M. Shimada is an American fisheries research ship in commission with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration since 2010. She operates along the United States West Coast.
Bell M. Shimada
…Seamount in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Baja California at is named for Shimada. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research ship NOAAS Bell M. Shimada (R 227) is named in honor of Shimada. A team of students from Marina High School in Marina, California, that suggested the name won a regional NOAA contest to…
NOAAS Bell M. Shimada underway on 22 September 2009.