YELLOWTAIL FLOUNDER OFF NEW ENGLAND 



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Nantucket, Mass. 



Most of the vessels landing in this port were 

 small and medium-sized draggers that commonly 

 fished the same grounds fished by the New Bed- 

 ford fleet, and they land there or at Woods Hole 

 occasionally. The landings at Nantucket have 

 been assigned to statistical subareas in proportion 

 to the landings by all otter trawlers at New Bed- 

 ford. 



Rhode Island, Conn., and Long Island, N. Y. 



Landings at ports in these places were variously 

 assigned to statistical subareas according to in- 

 formation gathered from interviews with fisher- 

 men from these ports during October and 

 November 1946. This varied slightly from port 



to port and season to season, but virtually all of 

 the fishing was west of Nantucket Shoals. 



New York City, N. Y. 



Landings of yellowtail flounders at this port 

 were assigned to the subareas in proportion to 

 the landings by all vessels at New Bedford from 

 Georges Bank and southern New England areas. 

 This was based on the opinion of captains of both 

 small and medium-sized draggers landing fish at 

 New York City. 



New Jersey. 



The very small amount of landings were as- 

 sumed to have come from the statistical area desig- 

 nated Southwestern Long Island. 



C. LENGTH FREQUENCIES OF YELLOWTAIL BY STATISTICAL SUBAREA, QUARTER 



AND SEX, 1941-47 



Table C-l. — Length frequencies of yellowtail: By area, 

 quarter, and sex, southern Nova Scotia (XXI-O) and 

 eastern Massachusetts grounds (XXII-E) 



