United States Department of the Interior, Fred A. Seaton, Secretary 

 Fish and Wildlife Service, Amie J. Suomela, Commissioner 



OCEANOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS, 

 EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES 



by 



C. Godfrey Day 

 Research Assistant 

 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 

 Woods Hole, Massachusetts 



Contribution No. 1048 from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 



This work was financed by the Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries under Contract No. 14-17-008-62, with funds 

 made available under the Act of July 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 

 376), coimnonly known as the Saltonstall-Kennedy Act. 





m^^° United States Fish and Wildlife Service 





Q Special Scientific Report—Fisheries No. 318 



iO 



Washington, D. C. 

 November 1959 



