tremendous bodies of fish appejir off the 

 North Carolina coast and support a sizable 

 fishery until early January when they once 

 more disappear from coastal surface waters. 



Fishinp Grounds 



Some knowledge of the grounds fished 

 by the purse-seine fleet is furnished in 

 figure 1, which shows the location of menha- 

 den reduction plants on the Atlantic coast. 



With the exception of those located in New 

 England, the reduction plsuits utilize menha- 

 den exclusively in the mcuiufacture of fish 

 meal, oil, and condensed solubles. Plcints 

 at Portland, Me., Gloucester, Mass., and 

 Point Judith, R. I., rely mainly on other 

 industrial species and the by-products of 

 the fish-filleting plants, but augment their 

 supply of raw material with menhaden during 

 seasons when this more desirjible species 

 appears in northern waters. 



Figure 2. --Net-handling equipment mounted on a menhaden seine boat. 



