UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 



Stewart L. Udall, Secretary 



James K. Carr, Under Secretary 



Frank P. Briggs, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife 



FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, Clarence F. Pautzke, Commis.^ioner 



Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Donald L. McKernan, Director 



AGE AND SIZE COMPOSITION OF THE MENHADEN 

 CATCH ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST OF THE 

 UNITED STATES, 1959 



WITH A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE COMMERCIAL FISHERY 



by 

 William R. Nicholson aind Joseph R. Higham, Jr. 



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United States Fish and Wildlife Service 

 Special Scientific Report--Fisheries No. 478 



Washington, D.C. 



July, 1964 



