Weight (kilograms) and Number for Fish and Shellfish Species Collected 



during the 1983 Spring and Autumn Bottom Trawl Surveys, Massachusetts 



Territorial Waters. The Asterisk indicates some of the Commercially 



Important Species (from Howe et al; 1985). 



Spring Autumn 



Species v;t . No. 



Ocean pout 4,886.7 6,228 



Northern searobin 4,289.6 25,543 



Winter skate 2,526.8 1,739 



Winter flounder* 2,197.9 7,565 



Little skate^ 1,001.4 1,709 



Atlantic cod* 867.9 2,686 



Windowpane 704.3 2,299 



Longhorn sculpin 538.1 3,534 



American plaice 438.1 2,772 



Tautog 435.6 251 



Yellowtail flounder 397,2 1,227 



Spider crab # 364.4 4,595 



Longfin squid" 358.4 4,500 



Spiny dogfish 316.7 81 



Red hake 307.0 1,333 



Silver hake 257.0 2,106 



Scup° 175.5 1,262 



Summer flounder 117.5 115 



Rock crab 93.9 738 



Atlantic herring 84.6 2,106 



Black sea bass" 75.8 235 



Sea raven 72.8 82 



American lobster 70.0 208 



Moonsnail (unclassified) 69.1 691 



Goosefish 64.3 12 



Smooth dogfish 60.1 18 



Pollock 49.0 502 



Fourspot flounder 48.0 243 



Witch flounder 47.8 102 



Alewife 40.7 1,350 



Atlantic wolf fish 39.8 17 



Haddock 27.1 126 



Knobbed whelk 2 2.7 5 



Thorny skate 21.9 19 



Cunner 17.1 147 



American sand lance 15.2 2,030 



Butterfish 11.7 113 



Snakeblenny 11.7 183 



Fourbeard rockling 10.2 190 



Blueback herring 9.2 586 



White hake 9. 1 107 



Horseshoe crab 7.9 8 



Lady crab 7.5 8 2 



Striped searobin 7.3 19 



Channeled whelk 5.2 16 



wt . 





No . 



169, 



.0 





951 



69. 



.3 



1, 



,404 



1,486. 



,8 



1, 



,106 



778, 



,4 



3 , 



, 647 



944, 



,3 



1, 



, 885 



4, 



,7 





77 



92, 



,5 





470 



63, 



.9 





794 



222, 



,0 



4, 



,054 



24, 



,5 





90 



164, 



,8 



1, 



,076 



69, 



,4 



1, 



,047 



288, 



,2 



29, 



,813 



4,891, 



,3 



1, 



,816 



633, 



,2 



2, 



,715 



185, 



,6 



1, 



,917 



1,174. 



,6 



140, 



,003 



83, 



,0 





71 



456. 



,3 



5, 



,782 



63, 



.5 





743 



50, 



.8 



8, 



,933 



12, 



,3 





52 



350, 



,9 



1, 



,364 



34, 



,1 





336 



94, 



,6 





19 



297, 



,9 





409 



2. 



,1 





8 



58. 



,7 





359 



69, 



,9 





110 



18. 



,6 





176 



6. 



2 





2 



0, 



,9 





36 



98, 



,0 





201 



61, 



,6 





72 



3, 



,0 





116 



0. 



,0 





3 



229. 



,4 



20, 



,809 



9, 



.5 





257 



11, 



,3 





119 



1, 



,1 





22 



27, 



,8 





137 



24, 



.9 





24 



74, 



.5 



1. 



,958 



3, 



.3 





23 



14, 



.3 





64 



