that there may have been differences in 

 rate of growth or develoiiment in tiie 2 

 years. 



Large winter flounders (ahout 2ri0 mm. 

 and over) Ijegan maturing in early fall, 

 and they gradually di.sap])eared from 

 catches in late fall as maturation pro- 

 gressed. Presumably they moved to estu- 

 aries, where mucli of the sjiawning takes 

 l)lace (Bigelow and Schroeder, 1953). Xo 

 sjiawning fish were obserx'ed in the Woods 

 Hole harbor catches. 



Balistidae — triggerfishes and filefishes 



Monucanthus hhpidus (Linnaeus), plane- 

 head filefishes. 



Planehead filefish were recorded in Novem- 

 ber 1961 and in August through October 

 19(52 (table 19, fig. :i). We judged that 

 most of tliese fish were young of tlie year. 



Table 19. — Numbers and lengths of planehead filefish 

 caught with an otter trawl near Woods Hole, 

 Mass., September 1961 to December 1962. (File- 

 fish were caught only in the semimonthly periods 

 shown.) 



1961 

 Nov. 1-15 



1962 



Mm. Mm. 

 30 



Mr, 



Mm. 



12 



131 109-212 



' Assumed to be young of the year on the basis of 

 data given by Bigelow and Schroeder (1953). 



Tetraodontidae — puffers 



Sphaeroides nmculatus (Bloch and Schneid- 

 er) , northern puffer. 



Eleven puffers were caught from mid- 



July to early October 19(i2. These were 

 divided into two size groups: four were 

 large fish (mean length, 192 mm.; range, 

 167 to 21;; mm.) and seven were small 

 (mean length, 42 mm.; range, 15 to 64 

 mm.) . ^^'e judged the latter to be 0-grouii 

 fish on the basis of growth data from 

 Bigelow and Schroeder (1953). 



Lophiidae — goosefishes 



L(il>hiii.s (iDicricaiiits \'alenciennes, goosefish. 

 One goosefish, 83:'> mm. long, was caught 

 in October 1962; another, 902 mm. long, 

 was taken in Novemlier 1962. 



LITERATURE CITED 



American Fisheries Society. 



196t). A list of common and .scientific 

 names of fishes from the L'nited States 

 and Canada. 2d ed. Spec. Publ. 2. 

 102 pp. 

 Bigelow, Henry B., and V>'illiam C. Schroeder. 

 1953. Fishes of the Oulf of Maine. U.S. 

 Dejj. Int., Fish Wild!. Serv., Fish. Bull. 

 53: 1-577. 

 Cooper, Richard A. 



1967. Age and growth of the tautog, 

 T<iHf()(/(i oiiitis (Linnaeus), from 

 Rhode Island. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 

 96: 134-142. 

 Finkelstein, Samuel L. 



1969. Age and growth of scup in the 

 waters of eastern Lang Island. N.Y. 

 Fish & Game J. 16: 84-110. 

 Hildebrand, Samuel F., and 

 William C. Schroeder. 

 1928. Fishes of Chesapeake Bay. Bull. 

 U.S. Bur. Fish. 43(1): 1-366. 

 Marak, Robert R., John B. Colton, Jr., 



Donald B. Foster, and David Miller. 

 1962. Distribution of fish eggs and larvae, 

 temperature, and salinity in the 

 Georges Bank-Gulf of Maine area, 

 1956. U.S. Dep. Int., Fish Wild!. Serv., 

 Spec. Sci. Rep. Fish. 412, 95 pp. 

 Nichols, J. T., and C. M. Breder, Jr. 



1927. The marine fishes of New York and 

 southern New England. Zoologica 9: 

 1-192. 



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