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Table 3. — United Slates landings ofyellowta.il, by month and fishing area, 1942-49— Continued 



[In thousands of pounds] 



Date 



191,7 



January 



February. - 



March 



April 



May 



June.. 



July 



August 



September.. 



October 



November. - 

 December... 



Total. 



1948 



January 



February. . . 



March 



April. . . 



May 



June 



July . 



August 



September.. 



October 



November . . 

 December... 



Total. 



191,9 



January 



February. . 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July.... 



August 



September- . 



October 



November. . 

 December... 



Total. 



Nova 

 Scotian 

 Banks 

 (XXI) 



62 



22 



36 



82 



305 



428 



323 



94 



24 



39 



85 



136 



1.636 



40 



96 



34 



27 



754 



1.133 



377 



102 



59 



76 



192 



247 



3,137 



14 



8 



9 



131 



49 



56 



44 



21 



8 



36 



228 



47 



Statistical area- 



New England Banks (XXII) 



B-C-D 



154 

 13 

 131 



165 

 50 

 50 



110 

 47 



142 



134 

 99 



122 



108 

 95 

 84 



204 

 77 

 86 



115 

 56 

 71 

 49 

 64 

 83 



176 

 160 

 108 

 140 

 61 

 74 

 67 

 34 

 49 

 165 

 144 

 127 



1.305 



31 

 29 

 40 

 70 

 72 

 86 

 444 

 178 

 72 

 50 

 43 

 55 



1.170 



372 



85 

 82 

 145 

 140 

 136 

 102 

 115 

 103 

 153 

 123 

 124 



126 

 42 

 45 

 55 



100 

 59 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 57 



112 



616 



.332 



j.v'i 

 149 

 19 

 20 

 46 

 95 

 36 

 25 

 40 

 29 

 49 

 52 



845 



265 

 111 

 162 

 33 

 146 

 165 

 59 

 37 

 45 

 33 

 42 



1, 164 



261 



176 



35 

 132 

 107 

 270 

 63 

 37 

 26 

 29 

 22 

 79 

 46 

 39 



885 



48 

 60 

 58 

 81 

 229 

 61 

 152 

 235 

 709 

 140 

 118 

 65 



1.956 



209 



236 



417 



300 



164 



236 



272 



2.523 



2,304 



2.414 



1.043 



234 



10. 352 



94 



71 



72 



94 



96 



103 



124 



47 



910 



745 



73 



69 



2,498 



190 



267 



191 



172 



180 



165 



188 



2,817 



2, 195 



2,724 



220 



9, 495 



107 



97 



104 



109 



113 



343 



928 



1,021 



95 



624 



338 



526 



4.405 



231 



199 



300 



286 



273 



263 



189 



1,278 



2,098 



2,446 



292 



241 



N.il'JI, 



190 



263 



276 



378 



473 



258 



1. 120 



962 



1,244 



1,369 



2,376 



264 



9.173 



225 

 570 

 585 

 142 

 111 

 269 

 156 

 392 

 848 

 377 

 964 

 965 



5.604 



Q-E 



2,172 



453 



1. I'M 



846 



588 



964 



1.792 



401 



473 



1,391 



2,198 



2,395 



15. 167 



1,102 

 685 

 650 

 399 

 379 

 555 

 914 

 207 

 285 

 288 

 550 



1,431 



7.445 



887 



794 



280 



132 



64 



94 



131 



117 



93 



125 



343 



996 



4,056 



221 

 69 

 215 

 240 

 1X3 

 453 

 541 

 53 

 71 

 101 

 138 

 524 



2,809 



595 



167 



400 



430 



113 



336 



471 



34 



68 



70 



40 



59 



2,783 



48 

 36 

 17 



130 

 40 

 31 



179 

 16 

 13 

 15 

 16 

 20 



Oft 



Lone 

 Island 

 (XXIII) 



17 

 16 

 28 

 29 

 14 

 26 

 381 

 18 

 20 

 23 

 17 

 45 



634 



122 

 145 

 378 

 67 

 61 

 600 

 757 

 55 

 80 

 81 

 59 

 66 



2, 471 



Total > 



35, 754 



38, 968 



29, 810 



1 Slight discrepancies occur due to rounding ofl of the figures. 



areas, or unit areas, which are rectangles of 10 

 minutes of latitude or longitude to a side and en- 

 close an area of about 70 square miles. Thus, for 

 about 60 percent of the catch we have determined 

 the actual unit areas fished. By assuming that 

 this distribution of the catch was representative 

 of the fishing from all ports during 1943 and 

 1947, the total catch for each subarea was allotted 

 among the unit areas. Figure 2 shows the local- 

 ities fished and the catches made during 1947. 

 The fishing grounds of 194.3 were almost identical 

 with those of 1947 and therefore have not been 

 shown. 



Most of the catch came from near the 20-fathom 

 contour from south of Montauk Point to south 



of Nantucket Shoals, with smaller quantities 

 taken on Georges Bank, in the vicinity of Cape 

 Cod, and farther north in the Gulf of Maine. 

 Most of the catch was taken between 15 and 35 

 fathoms, although moderate quantities were taken 

 out to a depth of 45 fathoms. This is the pre- 

 ferred deptli range of the species if we assume 

 that these fishing grounds represent the areas in- 

 habited by most of the yellowtail. This assump- 

 tion is reasonable, because there are very few lo- 

 calities too rough to trawl and most of the Con- 

 tinental Shelf is heavily fished for other species. 

 The chance of yellowtail concentrations remain- 

 ing undiscovered is extremely small. 

 The ocean bottom in the areas of yellowtail 



