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PRINCIPAL SPAWNING AREAS AND TIMES 



OF MARINE FISHES, 



CAPE SABLE TO CAPE HATTERAS 



The purpose of this compendium is to summarize 

 spawning areas and seasons of the more abundant 

 marine fishes of the continental shelf between 

 Cape Sable, N.S., and Cape Hatteras, N.C., as an 

 aid to the identification offish eggs and larvae and 

 planning and scheduling ichthyoplankton sur- 

 veys. We have used the term "marine" to encom- 

 pass fishes which spawn at sea (in contrast to es- 

 tuarine spawners), although some of the species 

 included spawn in both environments contingent 

 on geographic location ( e.g., winter flounder which 

 spawn exclusively in estuaries in the Middle At- 

 lantic Bight and offshore in the Gulf of Maine and 

 Atlantic menhaden which spawn in estuaries 

 along southern New England and in the New York 

 Bight and offshore in the lower Middle Atlantic 

 Bight and in the South Atlantic Bight). 



The Gulf of Maine is defined as the oceanic bight 

 bounded by Nantucket Shoals and Cape Cod on 

 the west (long. 70°W) and Cape Sable on the east 

 (long. 65°W) including Georges and Browns 

 Banks and waters out to the 200-m contour (Col- 

 ton 1964). The Middle Atlantic Bight is the area 



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