13% of the catch was made up of cunner ( Tautogolabrus adspersus) , tomcod 

 ( Microgadus tomcod ) and blackfish ( Tautoga onitis ) . The remaining 37o 

 was comprised of longhorn sculpin ( Myoxocephalus octodccemspinosus ) , 

 eel ( Anguilla rostrata ) , whiting ( Merluccius bilinearis ) , fourspot 

 flounder ( Paralichthys oblongus ) , striped sea robin (Prionotus carol inus ) , 

 common sea robin ( Prionotus evolans ) , Atlantic mackerel ( Scomber scombrus ) , 

 porgy ( Stenotomus chrysops ) , hickory shad ( Alosa mediocris ) and American 

 smelt ( Osmerus mordax ) . 



A gill net, used in the rocky area east of Davids Island where 

 trawling was not feasible, was set and worked four times. The time period 

 from late afternoon to sunset was sampled twice, from sunset to early 

 morning once and from morning to late afternoon once. No fish were taken 

 during the morning to afternoon sampling period. The evening sets 

 produced herring, blackfish and cunner and the night set caught blackfish 

 and cunner. Table 62 lists the sampling times and fish collected. 



Haul seining was limited to two sandy beaches on Davids Island 

 because of the rocky shoreline elsewhere. The common silverside, Menidia 

 menidia, was the fish most frequently taken. Two other species of fish 

 were collected, young herring ( Alosa sp.) and sand lance ( Ammodytes sp.). 



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