stocks are rather fully exploited at present, but 

 tanner crabs are barely touched. 



The extent of pelagic fish resources of the Gulf 

 of Alaska, Bering Sea, and off Oregon and 



Washington is not well known. Herring appears to 

 be the dominant overshelf pelagic fish now under 

 exploitation. There are large stocks of squid, 

 pomfret and saury in the region, but they are 



Table 9 

 ESTIMATED STANDING STOCK IN DECREASING ORDER AND AVERAGE ANNUAL 

 CATCH FOR THE PERIOD 1963-1965 (NEW ENGLAND AREA) 

 (to nearest million pounds) 



Silver hake (Whiting). . 



Sea herring 



Spiny dogfish (Crayfish) 



Haddock 



Red hake 



Pollock . . 

 Thorny skate' 

 Cod . . . 

 Ocean perch 

 Little skate^ 



Butterflsh 

 Big skate^ 

 Argentine^ 

 Blackback 

 Yellowtail 



Barndoor skate^ . . . 



Eel pout^ 



Goosefish^ 



American plaice (Sea dab) 

 Alewife 



White hake .... 

 Longhorned sculpin^ 

 Sand flounder (Fluke)^ 



Scup 



Grey sole .... 



Fourspot flounder^ 

 Sea raven ^ . . . 

 All others . . . 



Totals 



Standing 

 Stock 



2,084 



1,824 



1,373 



980 



694 



596 

 579 

 489 

 399 

 386 



309 

 295 

 187 

 185 

 185 



178 

 171 

 142 

 125 

 87 



72 

 71 

 68 

 66 

 32 



16 



10 



308 



11,877 



Average 

 Annual 

 Landings 



638 

 529 

 + 

 337 

 176 



54 



156 

 54 



10 



+ 



9 



32 



93 



+ 



12 



+ 



9 



42 



7 



+ 

 + 

 + 

 4 



+ 

 + 

 460' 



2,630 



Average U.S. 



Annual Catch 



(1963-1965 excl. 



83.2 



97.6 



00.4 



130.4 



3.7 



13.2 



37.8 

 30.0 



3.5 



18.7 

 78.0 



6.2 

 10.4 



6.4 



3.4 



597.1 



Percentage 



of Catch to 



Standing Crop 



30.6 

 29.0 



34.4 

 25.4 



9.1 



31.9 

 13.5 



3.2 



4.8 

 17.3 



50.3 



7.0 



7.2 

 48.3 



9.7 



12.5 



22.1 



This poundage includes all species, especially those 

 the industrial fishery. Only a small part of this figure 



Not broken down in U.S. Fishery Statistics. 



Not available in U.S. Fishery Statistics. 



landed but not recorded separately by various food fisheries and 

 represents species not listed in table. 



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