FISHERY BULLETIN: VOL. 71, NO. 3 



Table I. — Estimated number of tagged fish recaptured, by area and season, from adult 



Atlantic menhaden released in North Carolina in the summer of 1966. 



[Estimates based on primary magnet tag recoveries.] 



'S indicates spring and summer; F indicates fall. 

 '^* indicates menhaden fishing but no tag recovery was attempted. 

 -- indicates no menhaden fishing. 



Table 2. — Estimated number of tagged fish recaptured, by area and season, from adult 



Atlantic menhaden released in North Carolina in the fall of 1966. 



[Estimates based on primary magnet tag recoveries.] 



'S indicates spring and summer; F indicates fall. 

 '^* indicates menhaden fishing but no tag recovery was attempted. 

 -- indicates no menhaden fishing. 



fisliing season in Florida, Nortli Carolina, and 

 Chesapeake Bay have been recovered in fishing 

 areas north of the release area in the same 

 season of their release. Some fish tagged in 

 Florida in April have been recaptured near 

 Southport, N.C, in May and near Beaufort in 

 June. Few Florida tags were recovered in North 

 Carolina from those released in midseason, and 

 none were recovered in North Carolina from 

 those released late in the season. Menhaden 

 tagged in North Carolina from pound nets early 

 in the spring have been recaptured in pound 

 nets in Chesapeake Bay as early as May and 

 in the purse seine fishery in New Jersey and 



New York in July. Fish tagged in Chesapeake 

 Bay in April and early May occurred in New 

 Jersey and New York catches as soon as the 

 fisheries began in early June. Again, the amount 

 of movement decreased through the spring, and 

 there appeared to be relatively little movement 

 between fishing areas after June. There ap- 

 peared to be little northward movement in the 

 spring and early summer of fish tagged in the 

 Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay. Only a 

 few have been recaptured in New Jersey and 

 none in New York. 



Southward migration does not begin until 

 late summer. The North Carolina fall fishery 



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