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Fishery Bulletin 89(2), 199) 



SOUTH CAROLINA 

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Figure 2 



Length-frequencies at release and subsequent length-at- 

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 regions. Fish were grouped by 50-mm FL interval; mid-range 

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SOUTH ATLANTIC BIGHT (N - 31) 



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Figure 3 



Monthly return percentage of king mackerel released from 

 South Carolina region and recaptured in the South Atlantic 

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 tative of relative time of freedom. Returns begin with May 

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Figure 4 



Monthly return percentage of king mackerel released from 

 Ft. Pierce region and recaptured in the (a) southeastern 

 Florida (SEFL), (b) Florida Keys (FK), (c) northeastern Gulf 

 (NEG), and (d) northwestern Gulf (NWG) subareas, using a 

 continuous time-scale representative of relative time of 

 freedom. Returns begin with December of year 1. 



leased fish and length-at-tagging of recaptured fish 

 (Fig. 2a-d). No significant differences in lengths were 

 noted for fish from any of the four tagging regions 

 (South Carolina, x 2 13.05, 0.25<P<0.50, df 13; Ft. 

 Pierce, r 19.14, 0.25<P<0.50, df 16; Jupiter, x 2 

 18.76; 0.25<P<0.50, df 16; and Florida Keys, r 8.83, 

 0.90<P<0.95, df 17). 



Temporal recapture patterns 



King mackerel released from the South Carolina region 

 (809 tagged; 46 returned) generally returned to the 

 SAB subarea (N 31) from June through August and 

 from October through November of each recapture 



