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displacement night increase m3rtality of tilefish and ether 

 bottom dwelling animals whose distribution is apparently limited 

 to the Slope Water zone^ where the temperature regime is normally 

 quite stable throughout the year. (The well-known mass mortality 

 of tilefish off the Middle Atlantic in Warch-May 1882 was not 

 preceded by a cold winter.) 



RECENT REPORTS OF COLD WEATHER EFFECTS ON FISHERY RESOURCES 



The follow inq information has come to our attention on the 

 apparent influence of the cold weather on the fishery resources: 



ybit§ Sbci!!lQ iO So^tb Q.§.Q2i.iQi* A newspaper article from the 

 United Press International dated February 19/^ 1977 reports that 

 "Charles H. Farmer^ head of the [South Carolina] Department of 

 kJildlife and Marine Resources' crustacean management program^ 

 said a week-long survey showed the cold weather has virtually 

 wiped out the white shrimp that spend the winter along the South 

 Carolina coa st . " 



Snook and other traQical fisti in Florida: Thomas H. Fraser/ 

 Environmental Quality Laoratory/^ Inc./' Port Charlotte^ FLx has 

 informed us by telephone that unusually widespread kills of snook 

 were reported in Florida during and following the extremely cold 

 weather in the third week of January. Other species for which 

 kills were reported or observed by Fraser during the same period 

 of January include mcjarra^ ladyfish/^ crevalle/ and tarpon. 

 Fraser advised that cold weather kills have been reported in 

 Florida for each of these tropical species in earlier years. 



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