M/V Pelican of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 



ABSTRACT 



The results of 431 trawl hauls with a 10-foot try net, made 

 on the Continental Shelf along the South Atlantic Coast of the United 

 States, are summarized with respect to distribution of Peneid shrimp. 

 It appears unlikely that commercial concentrations of the common 

 shrimp ( Penaeus setiferus) or of the grooved or brown shrimps 

 (P . aztecus and P. duorarum) occur on the Shelf outside the present 

 limits of the fishery. The rock shrimp ( Eusicyonia brevirostris) 

 was taken in small numbers over a wide area and largely between 

 10 and 40 fathoms. 



