DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE TRENDS OF 22 SELECTED SPECIES 

 IN THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC BIGHT FROM BOTTOM TRAWL SURVEYS 



DURING 1967-1979 



11 2 



Thomas R. Azarovitz , Charles J. Byrne , Elizabeth S. Pritchard , 



Linda I. Despres-Patanjo , Harold A. Foster 



Nat. Mar. Fish. Serv., Woods Hole Lab., Woods Hols, MA 02543 

 'Virginia Marine Resources Commission, ?. 0. Box 756, Newport News, VA 23807 



APPENDIX: Annual Cycle of Gonad- Somatic Indices as 

 Indicators of Spawning Times for Fifteen 

 Species of Fish Collected from the New 

 York Bight, June 1974 to June 1975 



Stuart J. Wilk 

 Nat. Mar. Fish. Serv., Sandy Hook Lab., P.J. Box 423, Highlands, NJ '"32 



DOCUMENT 

 LIBRARY 



Woods Hole Ocaanographic 

 Institution 



Final Report to the U. S. Mineral Management Service 

 (Contract No. AA 550-1A7-35) 



U. S. Department of Commerce 

 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 

 National Marine Fisheries Service 

 Northeast Fisheries Center 

 Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02S43 



January 1985 



