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CONTENTS 



v Preface 



vi Foreword 



1 Part 1: Overview 



3 Introduction 



■j 5 Issues of National Concern 



4 Scientific Principles and Terms -J9 Strategy for the Future 



7 National Overview: Status 

 and Potential of U.S. Living 

 Marine Resources 



2 1 Part 2: Unit Synopses 



23 Unit 1: Northeast 

 Demersal Fisheries 



47 Unit 9: Southeast Drum and 

 Croaker Fisheries 



27 Unit 2: Northeast Pelagic 

 Fisheries 



49 Unit 10: Southeast Menhaden 

 and Butterfish Fisheries 



29 Unit 3: Atlantic 



Anadromous Fisheries 



5 2 Unit 1 1 : Southeast/Caribbean 

 Invertebrate Fisheries 



32 Unit 4: Northeast 

 Invertebrate Fisheries 



55 Unit 12: Pacific Coast Salmon 

 Fisheries 



35 Unit 5: Atlantic Highly 

 Migratory Pelagic Fisheries 



59 Unit 13: Alaska Salmon 

 Fisheries 



39 Unit 6: Atlantic Shark 

 Fisheries 



52 Ur) it 14: Pacific Coast and 

 Alaska Pelagic Fisheries 



4 -J Unit 7: Atlantic Coastal 

 Migratory Pelagic Fisheries 



57 Unit 1 5: Pacific Coast 

 Groundfish Fisheries 



43 Unit 8: Atlantic/Gulf of 

 Mexico/Caribbean Reef Fish 

 Fisheries 



continued . . 



