than 10% of all females for 2 successive weeks. Six stations were 

 sampled in 1983 (Fig. 1). Station 5, sampled from 1975 through 1982 



NIANTIC 

 RIVER 



(NUSCo 1983), was subdivided into stations 51, 52 and 53 during 1983. 

 The 32 to 35 tows made weekly were allocated to each station based on 

 area and expected abundance of winter flounder; more tows were taken at 

 stations having greater catches. 



Winter flounder were captured with a 9.1-m otter trawl (6.4-mm bar 

 mesh codend liner) towed 0.55 km. This distance was chosen because it 

 represented the maximum tow length at station 1 and its use at all 

 stations was expected to reduce variability in calculating 

 catch-per-unit-ef f ort (CPUE) . However, since catch data from station 2 



