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be representative of the fish taken with respect to 

 gear and sex. Accurate fishery statistics, that is, 

 catch and effort data, should be collected for the 

 pound-net fisheries along the New Jersey coast, 

 in Sandy Hook and Lower New York Bays, and 

 off Long Island. Tagging studies should be 

 conducted from the pound-net fisheries of New 

 York and New Jersey to determine the proportion 

 and number of Connecticut River shad that are 

 taken by these fisheries. 



LITERATURE CITED 



Cating, James P. 



1953. Determining age of Atlantic shad from their 

 scales. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fishery 

 Bulletin 85, vol. 54, pp. 187-199. 



Chapman, D. G. 



1948. Problems in enumeration of populations of 

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Deming, W. E. 



1943. Statistical adjustments of data, 

 pp. 39-40. Wiley & Sons, New York. 



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SCHAEFER, MlLNER B. 



1951. Estimation of size of animal populations by 

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