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REVIEW OF CERTAIN MAJOR FISHERIES 



U.S. COD FISHERY, 1975 



Landings of cod were 68.4 million pounds valued at $14.6 million— a decline of 300,000 pounds, 

 but an increase of $2.0 million compared with 1974. Landings at Massachusetts ports were 69 percent of the 

 total, followed by Washington with 17 percent; Maine, 8 percent; and Rhode Island, 3 percent. The remainder 

 was landed in eight other Atlantic and Pacific Coast States. 



Eighty-one percent of the catch was taken by otter trawls, 13 percent by lines, 6 percent by gill 

 nets, and the remainder was taken by purse seines, midwater trawls, pound nets, beam trawls, floating traps, 

 pots and traps, and dredges. 



SEE FOOTNOTE AT END OF TABLE. 



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