NOAA Technical Report NMFS SSRF- 684 



Age and Size Composition of tlie 

 Atlantic Menliaden, Brevoortia tyrannus, 

 Purse Seine Catch, 1963-71, 

 with a Brief Discussion of the Fishery 



WILLIAM R. NICHOLSON 



SEATTLE, WA 

 June 1975 



UNITED STATES 

 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

 Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary , 



NATIONAL OCEANIC AND 

 ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION 

 Robert M White, Administrator 



National Marine 

 Fisheries Service 

 Robert W Schoning, Director 



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 Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 



