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long-haul seines tend to catch more of the larger sizes of fish and 
that pound nets take greater quantities of the younger and smaller 
fish are facts of great importance. From this evidence alone, and 
unless counteracted by other undesirable features not discovered by 
this investigation, this selection of the larger species and of the larger 
fish in each species would warrant the encouragement of long-haul 
seining as being more efficient and less harmful to the fish supply 
than pound-net fishing. 



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Fic. 9.—Length frequencies of starfish (harvest fish) Fic. 10.—Length frequencies of butterfish in 
in pound-net catches in Pamlico Sound, 1925 pound-net catches in Pamlico Sound, 1925 
DESTRUCTION OF UNDERSIZED FISH 
The Fisheries Commission Board of North Carolina has enacted 
regulations that prohibit the marketing, possession, or the unneces- 
sary destruction of various commercial fish below a certain size. 
Rule 12, passed December 11, 1923, and published in “‘Orders, Rules, 
and Regulations” of the Fisheries Commission Board in 1925, pro- 
vides the following minimum size limits: Gray trout, 9 inches; 
spotted trout, 11 inches; croakers, 8 inches; spots, 7 inches. Size 
limits are assigned also to other species not taken by pound nets or 
long-haul seines. Starfish and butterfish have no legal minimum 
