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Table 5. — Weight frequency of striped marlin, Makaira audax, from the Honolulu market, January 1949-FebruaTy 1952 — 



Continued 



[Data from the Hawaiian Division of Fish and QameJ 



latitudinal distribution appears to exist in the 

 central Pacific, for the POFI catches in tlie 

 equatorial area iiu^luded only a few striped marlin 

 of less tiian 100 pounds, whereas in the Honolulu 



market (table 5) about half of the fish weighed 

 less than 60 pounds each. In the latter case, the 

 distribution is very definitely and characteristi- 

 cally bimodal in most months of the year. In the 



