of the catch in the Middle Atlantic Area and 

 less than 45 percent of the catch in the 

 Chesapeake Bay Area and was absent from 

 catches in the North Atlantic Area. 



6. Age- 4 fish generally were shorter and 

 lighter; and age-1, -2, and -3 fish were longer 

 and heavier than fish of corresponding ages 

 in previous years. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



We had the cooperation of the plant owners 

 and managers, who provided space and facil- 

 ities for sampling the catch and furnished 

 records of vessel landings, and the vessel 



captains and pilots, who kept logbook records 

 of their daily fishing activities. 



LITERATURE CITED 



June, Fred C, and John W. Reintjes, 



1949. Age and size composition of themen- 



haden catch along the Atlantic coast of 



the United States, 1952-55; with a brief 



review of the commercialfishery. U.S. 



Fish Wildl. Serv., Spec. Sci. Rep. Fish. 



317, vi + 65 p. 

 Power, Edward A. 



1964. Fishery statistics of the United States, 



1962. U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv., Stat. Dig. 



56, 466 p. 



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