Table L— Continued. 



Known spawning season. 

 Uncertain spawning season. 

 *Peak spawning. 



et Shoals, although there are exceptions to this 

 general rule (notably, yellowtail flounder and 

 silver hake). 



The spawning summaries are based primarily 

 on published data collected on Bureau of Commer- 

 cial Fisheries (now National Marine Fisheries 

 Service) ichthyoplankton surveys of the Gulf of 

 Maine and Middle Atlantic Bight made in the 

 1950's and 1960's and listed in the References. 

 Published data from earlier studies (e.g., Fish 

 1929; Walford 1938; Pearson 1941; Sette 1943; 

 Bigelow and Schroeder 1953) and some unpub- 

 lished information from more recent National 

 Marine Fisheries Service ichthyoplankton sur- 

 veys have also been utilized. We have not at- 

 tempted to make the bibliography encyclopedic. 



However, the papers cited include references to all 

 pertinent spawning summaries. Spawning areas 

 and seasons were determined on a basis of the 

 occurrence of eggs and/or early stage (yolk-sac) 

 larvae. The families are arranged in phyletic 

 sequence (Greenwood et al. 1966) and the species 

 are listed in alphabetical order. Common names 

 follows those recommended by Bailey et al. ( 1970). 



References 



Bailey, R. M., J. E. Fitch, E. S. Herald, E. A. Lachner, C. C. 



LINDSEY, C. R. ROBINS, AND W. B. SCOTT. 



1970. A list of common and scientific names of fishes from 

 the United States and Canada. 3d ed. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. 

 Publ. 6, 150 p. 



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