two fishing seasons i the first, a ten-week period from 

 June to the middle of August; and the second, a five- 

 week period from October through the first week of 

 November. The albaoore and bonito fishing seasons lasted 

 approximately ten weeks each. The bonito season, however, 

 preceded the albaoore season, occurring from the middle 

 of June through August, ■while the albaoore season ex- 

 tended from the third week of July through the first week 

 of October. Relatively little charter boat fishing took 

 place after the fall mackerel fishing season was over. 



5* The 1948 party boat fishing season was found to 

 extend throughout the entire year. During the winter 

 months a limited number of party boats were open for week-end 

 cod fishing. Nearly all the vessels in the 1948 party 

 boat fishing fleet were making regular sea bass fishing 

 trips by the third week of April. Sea bass fishing extended 

 through August. Party boat fishing for mackerel took place 

 during May and June, and again from late October through the 

 winter . Soup, fluke, and weakfish fishing seasons began the 

 latter part of June. Of the three, soup afforded the longest 

 season, ending early in October. Fluke fishing was virtually 

 over the third week of September and the weakfish season by 

 the end of August. 



6. An analysis of the 1948 catch-per-trip for several 

 species was derived to be used for comparison with sub- 

 sequent years. Limited comparisons, however, were made 

 with earlier years. The oatch-per-year-trip of tuna during 1948 

 ■was not greatly different from the oatoh-per-^trip in 1938 

 and 1941* T!ti9 1948 catoh-por-trip of scup and sea bass was 

 found to be greater than the catch-per-trip recorded in 1938* 



COMMON AND SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF FISH 



REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT 



The specific identifications which are marked with an asterisk 

 were made by the senior author, and are after LaMonte (1945) and 

 Roedel (1948). The nomenclature for the remainder, not specifically 

 determined, are after Bigelow and Welsh (1925), HLldebrand and 

 Schroeder (1928), and Breder (1929). The local names as used in 

 the New York-New Jersey area are shown in the second column. 



Common name Local names Soientlf io name 



bonito bonito «6arda sarda 



blutfish bluefish Pomatomua saltatrix 



ood cod a&dua oallarias 



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