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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



1912, 1914, and 1915, it occurred at about 50 per cent of our stations (fig. 48), with 

 the records for those months distributed generally throughout the offshore parts of 

 the gulf as well as over Georges and Brown's Banks and over the shelf off Marthas 

 Vineyard and Nantucket. 



71" 



Fig. 48.— Occurrence of the euphausiid shrimp, Thysanoasa inermis, for June, July, and August. #, occurred; O. n ot 

 taken; X, records by Hansen (1915) . The hatched curve incloses the area where it has occurred at 50 per cent of the 

 stations 



This species (figs. 48 and 49) has occasionally been recorded close to land in 

 Massachusetts Bay and may be abundant temporarily in Eastport Harbor, as just 

 noted, but its presence in these estuarine waters is only sporadic in summer. Nor 



