United States Department of the Interior, Douglas McKay, Secretary- 

 Fish and ■fcB.ldlife Service, Albert M. Day, Director 



DESTRUCTION OF UNDERSIZED HADDOCK ON GEORGES BANK., 19i;7-5l 



By Ernest D. Premetz 

 Fishery Biologist 



CONTENTS 



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Methods 



Estimated destruction, 19U7 

 Annual 

 Seasonal 



AnaJ.ysis of discards., 195l 

 Pounds . „ o o o o . o . 

 Numbers 0000000° 

 Estimated total destructi 

 AArerage vreight , , o . . 

 Size composition 

 Cull by fishermen 

 Age composition 

 Size composition of ages 



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Special Scientific Reports Fisheries No. 96 



