FISHERY BULLETIN: VOL. 75, NO. 2 



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FIGURE 2. — North Carolina calico scallop fishing grounds. Dots refer to known locations of good catches by commercial trawlers. Open 

 squares refer to known locations of good catch by RV Beveridge. Letters refer to chlorophyll a sampling stations. For location of enclosed 

 area off North Carolina coast see Figure 1. 



Fishes 



Fishes of at least 100 mm standard length were 

 tagged using 12-mm Peterson disk tags held in 

 place (in the middorsolateral musculature) by 

 Monel pins. Fish lengths, except for skates and 

 stingrays where wing width was used, were ex- 

 pressed for each species and specimen as standard 

 length. Once tagged, release was immediate over 

 the original collecting site. The ship's loran was 

 used to pinpoint the release site. Other biological 

 data were taken on those additional fishes that 

 had not been too badly damaged by the fishery or 



scallop catches. Notations of other fishes not cap- 

 tured, such as flyingfishes, completed the field 

 data. 



Fish samples from commercial catches and des- 

 tined for stomach content analyses were kept on 

 ice because of the danger of Formalin contamina- 

 tion of the scallop catch and the cramped ship 

 quarters prevented carrying extra gear afield. 

 Similar fish sampled aboard research vessels were 

 preserved in 209r Formalin. In the laboratory, the 

 entire digestive tract was removed, contents iden- 

 tified, and noted whether the food items were in 

 the stomach or intestine. Positive identification of 



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