Table 4. — Monthly offshore otter-trawl landings 

 [in percent] 



Season 



Month 1953-54 1954-55 1955-56 1956-57 1957-58 Mean 



July 



Aug 



Sept 



Oct 



Nov 



Dec 



Jan 



Feb 



Mar 



Apr 



May 



June 



1.3 



0.6 



3.7 



9.0 



14.0 



9.1 



8.8 



9.3 



14.2 



14.8 



8.1 



7.1 



4.6 



1.4 



10.1 



7.6 



13.2 



6.7 



7.2 



10.8 



12.8 



15.1 



7.6 



2.7 



1.6 



2.6 



3.9 



8.7 



10.3 



8.1 



15.3 



11.2 



13.4 



13.1 



8.7 



3.0 



0.2 



2.4 



3.4 



8.7 



9.5 



13.0 



7.1 



11.2 



15.9 



16.1 



9.5 



2.9 



0.9 



1.1 



5.4 



10.1 



9.7 



9.9 



9.9 



9.5 



9.8 



16.6 



17.2 



1.7 



1.6 



5.3 



9.0 



11.3 



9.4 



9.6 



10.4 



13.2 



15.1 



10.2 



3.1 



Figure 2.-Distribution of fishing effort by the inshoreoner-trawl ^^'^<' 3.-DistributionoffishingeffortbytheoHshoreoner-trawl 

 fleet, 1954-57. "^^*' 1953-58. 



Fishing effort by the offshore fleet 

 was expended along the edge of the Con- 

 tinental Shelf, with heaviest fishing (ap- 

 proximately 36 percent) occurring in the 

 immediate vicinity of marked indentations 

 of the 100-fathom curve (fig. 3). About 

 8 percent of the offshore otter -trawl ef- 

 fort was spent on the inshore grounds 



inside the 10 -fathom curve, with most 

 of the fishing conducted on Five -Fathom 

 Bank and in contiguous waters. 



CATCH 



During the 4-year period, 1954-57, 

 the average annual yield of the combined 



