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Table 17.- 



-Percentage occurrence of all items identified in 10 percent or more of either the trawl collections or of tuna 



stomach contents — Continued 



1 From Reinties and King (195.1). 

 ' From King and Ikehara (19.56). 



water trawling were conducted as a combined op- 

 eration, with the longline being set in tlie early 

 morning and hauled in the afternoon, and with 

 a trawl haul usually being made about 2 hours 

 after sunset on the run to the next fishing station. 

 The data from Maiwdng cruise 20 to the equatorial 



' From Waldron and King (see footnote 4, p. 295). 

 * From Iversen (in press). 



Pacific afford the best opportunity to compare, on 

 a station-to-station basis, the composition of trawl 

 catches obtained with the G-foot Isaacs-Kidd and 

 stomach contents of yellowfin tuna, Neothunnus 

 macropteru^ (Temminck and Schlegel). Thej'el- 

 lowiin captured on this cruise, from which stom- 



