CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 1 



The commercial fisheries 3 



Inside waters 4 



Black mullet 4 



Spotted sea trout 6 



Blue crab 6 



Spot 13 



Pompano 13 



Shrimp 13 



Miscellaneous 13 



Atlantic Ocean adjacent to coast 13 



Shrimp 14 



King whiting 14 



Atlantic Ocean, 1 to 50 fathoms 15 



Red snapper 15 



Scallops 15 



Pelagic 15 



King mackerel 15 



Spanish mackerel 15 



Bluefish 15 



General 17 



Fish taken incidental to shrimp trawling 20 



Sciaenidae - croakers 24 



1 . Stellifer lanceolatus - star drum 24 



2. Micropogon undulatus - croaker 24 



3. Cynoscion nothus - white or silver sea trout 25 



4. Leiostomus xanthurus - spot 25 



5. Menticirrhus spp. - king whiting 25 



6. Larimus fasciatus - banded croaker 25 



Carangidae - jacks 25 



7. Chloroscombrus chrysurus - bumper 25 



8. Vomer setapinnis - moonfish 25 



Ariidae - sea catfish 2 5 



9. Bagre marinus - gafftopsail catfish 25 



10. Galeichthys felis - sea catfish 25 



Serranidae - sea basses 25 



11. Centropristis philadelphicus - rock sea bass 25 



Fish and general invertebrate groups taken during exploratory fishing 25 



January 25 



March-April 25 



General 26 



Zooplankton organisms of the Cape Canaveral Area 28 



Wet volunnes of plankton 28 



Fish eggs 28 



Fish larvae 29 



Copepods 29 



Chaetognaths 30 



iii 



