UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 



Stewart L. Udall, Secretary 



James K. Carr, Under Secretary 



P'rank P. Briggs, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife 



FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, Clarence F. Pautzke, Commis.sionrr 



Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Donald I-. McKeriian, Director 



AGE AND SSZE COMPOSITION OF THE 



1960 MENHADEN CATCH ALONG 



THE U.S. ATLANTIC COAST 



WITH A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE COMMERCIAL FISHERY 



by 



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



United States Fish and Wildlife Service 

 Special Scientific Report- -Fisheries No. 479 



Washington, D. C. 

 August, 1964 



