fall fishery. The number of age-2 fish in the 

 catch was greater and the number of age-1 

 fish (1959 year class) fewer than in any 

 previous year in the South Atlantic, Middle 

 Atlantic, and Chesapeake Bay Areas, 



5, The trend of fewer fish among the older 

 age groups in catches in the Middle and North 

 Atlantic Areas continued, 



6, The mean lengths and weights of age-2 

 fish were smaller than in any previous year. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



The cooperation of the menhaden plant own- 

 ers and operators, who furnished the records 

 of vessel landings and provided facilities for 

 processing the catch samples, is gratefully 

 acknowledged. Special thanks are also due to 

 those vessel captains and pilots who kept de- 

 tailed records of their daily fishing activities. 



LITERATURE CITED 



JUNE, FRED C, and JOHN W. REINTJES. 

 1959, Age and size composition of the 

 menhaden catch along the Atlantic Coast 

 of the United States, 1952-55; with a 

 brief review of the commercial fishery. 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Special 

 Scientific Report — Fisheries No, 317, 

 65 p. 



JUNE, F RED C, and WILLIAM R. NICHOLSON. 

 1963. Age and size composition of the 

 menhaden catch along the Atlantic Coast 

 of the United States, 1958; with a brief 

 review of the commercial fishery. U.S. 

 Fish and Wildlife Seirvice, Special Scien- 

 tific Report — Fisheries No. 446, 40 p. 



POWER, EDWARD A, 



1962, Fishery statistics of the United 

 States, 1960. U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service, Statistical Digest No. 53, 529 p. 



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