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Table I. Principal Spawning Areas and Times of 

 Marine Fishes, Cape Sable to Cape Hatteras (Colton, 

 et al. , 1979) . 



Species 



Coffmon 



Gulf , of fmne 



■M 



o| - 



'l ijdie Atla n nc 9nnt 



r '.,. 



I Scombri dae 

 'Scorgaenidde 



Tngl idae 



Cottidae 



;AjiTnodytidae 

 "Stroffidteidae 



I Pleuronac- 



, naae 



Tautoqa om tis 



Taucogolabrus 



Seoastes 



.annus 



H/Qiocepnalus 



ociodecem - 

 spinosus 



Anmodytes sp. 



■eprilus 

 tnacanthus 



Ci thancnuivs 



Hiopoqiossina 



oplonga 

 Paraiicfithys 



Glyptocephalu 

 cynoqlossus 



iipjoqiossoides 



piatessoiaes 



Limanda 



Pseudopleuro - 

 nectes 

 arr-encanus 



cautog 

 cunner 



Atlantic 

 mdckerel 



northern 

 iearobin 



longhorn 

 sculpin 



sand lance 

 butterfisn 



jj1f 

 Stream 

 flounder 



fours pot 

 flounaer 



flounder 

 Mindowoane 



*itcri 



flounder 



American 

 plaice 



yel loHtai 1 

 flounder 



-inter 

 f 1 ounder 



Mass. Bay 

 ijeorges 

 ■Nant. Shoals -s 



W. Gulf *<■ 

 Cape.Cod Bay 



Scotian Shelf i 



Cent. Gulf 



SW Georges 

 Nant. Shoals 



SU Geor-jes 

 Nant. Shoals 



Hant. Shoals- 

 South 



iiariL. Shoals- 

 South 



Georges Bank 

 ;Jant. Shoals- 

 South 



Georges Bank 

 Mant. Shoals- 

 South 



>^eorges Sank 



Caoe Cod- 

 Chesapeak Say 



3!ocii Island- 

 Cape rtatteras 



Cdoe .00- 

 3e' aware Bay 



Soutn of 

 "artha ' s '^ ine- 

 yard 



UL 



Known spawning season. 



Uncertain spawning season, 



* Peak spawning. 



