YELLOWTAIL FLOUNDER OFF NEW ENGLAND 



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Figure 4. — Distant recaptures of yellowtail released off Jones Beach (No. 1), Montauk Point (No. 2), Provincetown 



(Nos. 3 and 13), and east of Nantucket Lightship (No. 14). 



probable that the fish from Montauk Point 

 mingled with those from Jones Beach on the 

 grounds off southern Massachusetts during the 

 summer and separated from them in the winter 

 on the westward migration. 



Recaptures from the yellowtail released off No 

 Mans Land and Nantucket Shoals during the sum- 

 mer and fall months of 1943 and 1946 (fig. 5) 

 were almost all made in the area where the fish 

 had been released or in the areas between Block 

 Island and Nantucket Shoals. Only one flounder 

 was caught westward off Jones Beach and only 

 one moved eastward to be caught on Georges 

 Bank. 



The yellowtail that were released off Race Point 

 on the tip of Cape Cod (fig. 4) remained in the 

 eastern Massachusetts area, although one was 

 caught as far north as Ipswich Bay, just north 

 of Gloucester 



Those fish tagged off Nauset 



Beach ranged farther (fig. 5) : one moved across 

 Nantucket Shoals to be recaptured south of Nan- 

 tucket, one was caught off Maine, and other yel- 

 lowtail were taken in ("ape Code Bay near Plym- 

 outh, Mass. 



Those released in the Cultivator Buoy region 

 on Georges Bank (lot Nos. 7 and 8) were recap- 

 tured in the same area, one of them 4 years later. 

 Thus, there was no evidence of migration from 

 this area, even though we suspect that these fish 

 must mix to some extent with those on the other 

 parts of Georges Bank. 



The yellowtail tagged on the southwestern part 

 of Georges Bank, east of Nantucket Lightship 

 (fig. 4), were mostly recaptured in the area of 

 release, but one had migrated to the Cultivator 

 Shoals area and three moved westward to cross 

 South Channel and were taken south of Nan- 

 tucket and off No Mans Land. These three fish 



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