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adjacent waters; local commercial fishing effort declined greatly in 

 1982 and 1983. Most other commercial catches were made during summer in 

 deeper waters of Long Island and Fishers Island Sounds and locations off 

 Rhode Island and Massachusetts where many winter flounder were 

 concentrated and unavailable to the sport fishery. 



Not unexpectedly, most (70%) of the recaptures were made in local 

 waters. Of the remainder, more than three times as many returns were 

 received from locations to the east than to the west of Millstone (Table 

 13) . A number of winter flounder released in Niantic Bay and River 

 interchanged locations, showing the movement of fish between these 

 areas. However, relatively few fish from other tagging locations 

 entered the river. Few Bartlett Reef fish were caught locally; about 

 half were taken by fishermen to the east. Specimens released near the 

 MNPS intakes and in Jordan Cove tended to remain near Millstone. Most 

 fish released at the intakes were Impinged at MNPS or caught in Niantic 



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