Taylor et a\ Age, growth, maturation, and sex reversal in Centropomus undeamahs 



615 



140 

 120 

 00 

 80 

 60 

 40 

 20 

 

 20 

 40 

 40 



Hook and line 

 P<0,001 



East coast 



n=1646 



mecJ=728 



(518,814) 



I L miinn n nl 



West coast 

 n=105 

 med=776 

 (687. 838) 



Trammel net 

 P<0.001 



^ 



East coast 

 n=141 

 med=508 

 (455, 558) 



inOU" ' H - 



West coast 

 n=483 

 med=549 

 (503, 602) 



1 

 2 

 3- 

 4 



5- 

 6 

 25 



Cast net 

 P<0,001 



10 





 35 

 30- 

 25 

 20 

 15 

 10 



5 



Electroshocker 



Gill net 



East coast 

 310 



West coast 

 n=161 

 med=324 

 (214, 450) 



East coast 

 n=259 

 med=440 

 (335, 575) 



mlllnl 



West coast 

 n=323 

 med=570 

 (505. 659) 



nnfj 



FL (mm) 



Figure 1 



Length (Ji.stributions. bv gear type and coast, of common snook. Centropomus undecimalis. collected from 

 South Florida waters during 1986-90. Med = median, numbers in parentheses are the 25th and 75th quartiles, 

 and P IS the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test value that compares the cumulative distribution of the two samples. 



