CLIMATE AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF MARINE ANIMALS 



331 



80 



70 



60 



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MASSACHUSETTS LANDINGS 



MAINE PRICES 



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1937 



1940 



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FiGiRE 28. — Landings of whiting in Massachusetts (1937-50) and the landings and price per pound of whiting in Maine 



(1937-52). 



not possible to decide, on the basis of the availabh^ 

 data, whether this is true. It is probably safer 

 to assume that some whiting have always wintered 

 in the deeper parts of tlie Gulf, which waters were 

 not fished until after 19,'57 wlien redfish boats 

 began operations. Tliese boats do not ordinarily 

 save any of the whiting they catch, so that 

 whiting in the catches might liave gone tmiioticed 

 for a number of years. 



Cursory examination of the weigh-out sheets of 

 vessels landing at the port of Gloucester in Jan- 



uary, February, and March, 1952, indicates that 

 small whiting boats can make consistently good 

 catches during these months in subareas XXII E, 

 which lies off the coast of Massachusetts, and 

 XXII D, which lies off the coast of western 

 Maine. The weigh-out sheets also show that 

 whiting appears in small amounts, but regularly, 

 as incidental <'atch for boats fishing in subareas 

 XXII F and G. (See Rounsefell 1948, for a 

 description of statistical areas.) 



A partial list of whiting landings at Gloucester 



