FISHERY BULLETIN: VOL. 79, NO. 1 



FIGURE 4.— Monthly CPUE for blue marlin 

 from the longline fishery and the recreational 

 fishery in the three major fishing areas in the 

 northern Gulf of Mexico, 1971-78. Longline 

 CPUE depicted for Panhandle and New Or- 

 leans were derived from data taken from the 

 5° square labeled II in Figure 3. CPUE for 

 Texas was taken from the 5° square labeled 

 rV in Figure 3. The first month depicted on 

 the abscissa is March (M) 1971. CPUE is in 

 numbers offish caught per 1,000 hooks in the 

 longline fishery and numbers offish hooked 

 per 100 hours fished in the recreational 

 fishery. The Tournament panel displays 

 CPUE calculated from billfish fishing tour- 

 naments while the panel labeled Dock shows 

 CPUE derived from noncompetitive fishing. 



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