Age and Size Composition of the 

 Menhaden Catch Along the Atlantic 

 Coast of the United States, 1962 



With a Brief Review of the Commercial Fishery 



by William R. Nicholson and Joseph R. Higham, Jr. 



SPECIAL SQENTIFIC REPOKT-FISHERIES Na 527 



Marine Biological Laboratory 



l_ r B R A R Y 



MAR 1 7 1965 



WOODS HOLE, MASS. 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 



FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 

 BUR E AtTof'cOMMERCiArF ISHERIE? 



