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FISHERY BULLETIN OF THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 



Connecticut. 



1940-1941. Twenty-fourth Biennial Report of the 

 Connecticut State Board of Fisheries and Game, 

 State of Connecticut, Public Document No. 19. 

 Landings by months. 



1942. New England Fisheries, in Current Fishery 

 Statistics No. 164. Total production for the 

 year. Proportion by month estimated from 

 daily shipments into New York City. 



1943-1949. Monthly landings compiled from daily 

 shipments into New York City as reported by 

 the New York Fishery Market News Service. 

 The total landings for 1942 were 1.9 times the 

 daily shipments into New York City. This fac- 

 tor was used to estimate the total landings for 

 1943-49. Earlier years were not adjusted be- 

 cause processing facilities were not built until 

 1943. 



New York City, N. Y. 



1940-1944. Landings by Fishing Craft at New York 

 City, in Current Fishery Statistics No. 193. 

 Landings by months. 



New York City, N. Y.— Continued 



1945. Landings by Fishing Craft at New York City, 

 in Current Fishery Statistics No. 269. Landings 

 by months. 



1946-1949. Landings compiled by months from 

 fishing craft weighouts as reported by the New 

 York Fishery Market News Service. 



Long Island, N. Y. 



1940-1949. Total monthly shipments into New York 

 City, as reported by the New York Fishery Mar- 

 ket News Service ; assumed to represent the en- 

 tire landings. 



New Jersey. 



1940-1949. Monthly landings compiled from daily 

 shipments into New York City, as reported by 

 the New York Fishery Market News Service; as- 

 sumed to represent the entire landings. 



B. METHODS OF ESTIMATING CATCH BY STATISTICAL SUBAREA 



Portland, Maine, Gloucester and Boston, Mass., 1938 to 

 1949, and New Bedford, Mass., October 1942 to 1949. 



Data were collected daily from representatives 

 of almost all vessels by the U. S. Fish and Wild- 

 life Service and mostly published in the Service's 

 Current Fishery Statistics series. After October 

 1942, more than 60 percent of the total yellowtail 

 landings were included in the statistics. 



New Bedford, Mass., January-September 1942. 



Landings were assigned to statistical subareas 

 according to information compiled from log-book 

 records that had been kept by several of the cap- 

 tains fishing out of the port. 



Chatham, Mass. 



The fishing fleet consisted of 30 or more line 

 trawlers, 35 to 45 feet in length, which, as a rule, 

 fished the same nearby grounds on 1-day trips 

 throughout the year. According to interviews 

 with fishermen in 1946, the area fished extended 

 from No. 6 buoy to No. 10 buoy on the western side 

 of South Channel, in depths ranging from 15 to 

 30 fathoms on hard, rocky bottoms shunned by 

 otter trawlers. All species of fish landed at 

 Chatham were assigned to subarea G. 



Provincetown, Mass. 



The fleet consisted of 35 to 40 small otter 

 trawlers, which followed a regular seasonal pat- 



tern of fishing for yellowtail. During the winter 

 months of November to March, the fleet fished 

 Cape Cod Bay and Massachusetts Bay, statistical 

 subarea E, and during the rest of the year they 

 fished east of Cape Cod on the western side of 

 South Channel in statistical subarea G. On the 

 basis of this information, which was gathered 

 through interviews with captains of vessels oper- 

 ating out of Provincetown, the landings of yellow- 

 tail flounder have been assigned to these two 

 subareas for the months indicated. 



Plymouth, Mass. 



The fleet fishing out of Plymouth consisted of 

 less than 20 small otter trawlers which regularly 

 fished Cape Cod Bay and Massachusetts Bay, 

 statistical subarea E, and all landings of yellow- 

 tail flounders have been assigned to this subarea. 



Woods Hole, Mass. 



The regular fleet consisted of 15 or more small 

 otter trawlers and 2 medium-sized otter trawlers 

 that fished the same grounds fished by the New 

 Bedford fleet of small otter trawlers. Trips were 

 also landed there occasionally by New Bedford 

 vessels. The landings of yellowtail flounder at 

 Woods Hole have been assigned to statistical sub- 

 areas in proportion to the landings at New Bed- 

 ford by small otter trawlers. 



