Table 1. — Surface water temperatures at the sampling area for each samiiling date, September lltfll to Tiecember 

 1962. 



Recorded across the harbor at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution wharf. 



known to occur in the Woods Hole area — ])ar- 

 ticularly pelao-ic forms — that are unhkely to 

 be caught in a trawl. 



Most of the sampling was during daylight, 

 usually between 0900 and 1030 hours. The 

 only nighttime sampling was during the night 

 of October 22-23, 1962. Although these catches 

 indicated that siiecies conijiosition and abun- 

 dance differed between day and night, the 

 nighttime tows were too few to define differ- 



ences. We therefore combined the night hauls 

 with the daylight hauls for the last half of 

 October. 



NOTES ON FISHES CAUGHT 



Descriptive notes for each species caught are 

 given below. Where few individuals of a spe- 

 cies were caught, the sizes and months caught 

 are given in the de.scri])tive note; for larger 



JAN FEB- MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC- 



MONTH 



Figure 2. — Mean weekly sea surface temperature at the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries wharf at Woods 



Hole, Mass., September 1961 to December 1962. 



