TABLES 

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1. Catch, catch per unit effort, and total fishing effort, 



Atlantic menhaden fishery, 195^ 4 



2. Numher of samples taken from commercial catches at 



various locations in 19 56 6 



3. Age composition of samples from purse-seine catches, 1955-56. 7 



h. Age composition of samples from purse-seine catches, by area, 



1955-56 8 



5. Age composition (in percent) of samples from spring potind-net 



catches, I956 9 



6. Mean fork length and weight of fish at each age in samples 



from ptrrse-seine catches, by area, 1955-56 10 



APPENDIX TABLES 

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1. Length frequency distributions in samples from purse-seine 



catches. South Atlantic Area, excluding the North Carolina 



fall fishery, I956 12 



2. Length frequency distributions in samples from spring pound-net 



catches, Chesapeake Bay Area, I956 13 



3 . Length frequency distributions in samples from ptirse-seine 



catches, Chesapeake Bay Area, I956 1^ 



k. Length frequency distributions in samples from spring pound-net 



catches. Middle Atlantic Area, I956 15 



5. Length frequency distributions in samples from purse-seine 



catches, Middle Atlantic Area, I956 I6 



6. Length frequency distributions in samples from purse-seine 



catches, North Atlantic Area, 1956 1? 



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