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unmarketable fish—that is, fish below the legal or marketable size 
limit taken in the pound nets and long-haul seines during 1925. 
From the averages of destruction in different months it may ‘be seen 
that long-haul seines waste no gray trout that are unmarketable, 













INS se 
AAS 
Ree eZ na CL, 
Bee e Sina 
atl ER SE Ree 
ZA aN ee ee 
cM 14 16-18 20 227 24 26 26.30 32734 3561 Sa 
Fic. 12.—Length frequencies of croaker in pound-net and long-haul seine catches 
in Pamlico and Core Sounds, N. C., 1925. The heavy vertical line is placed 
at the legal minimum size limit 


while pound nets waste, on the average, 30.6 per cent of the catch. 
Long-haul seines waste 4 per cent of the catch of spotted trout; 
pound nets destroy 59 per cent of the catch of starfish and 51% per 
cent of the catch of butterfish. 
