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— — RANGE 

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Figure 2.— Monthly range and average catch per hour of fishes by anglers on fixed platforms and charter 

 boats in St. Andrew Bay system. Flu., and adjacent coastal waters, 1973. 



were questioned about their fishing activity were not in- 

 cluded in this survey, because most of their effort was 

 spent replacing terminal tackle lost in the rocks. 



The largest number (31) of species of food and game 

 fishes that were caught from all platforms was available 

 at the jetty (Table 7). The highest average catch rate 

 from all platforms was also at the jetty. In the period 

 February-December, an average catch rate of 1.3 fish/h 

 was achieved by 419 fishermen in 748.0 h of angling 

 (Table 9). The average catch rate for individuals ranged 

 from 0.0 to 10.0 fish/h (Fig. 2). 



Charter Boats 



Charter boat anglers used similar tackle, baits, and 

 fishing methods. Most trolled four lines, two weighted 

 and two unweighted, irrespective of the number of 

 anglers onboard. A 00-squid spoon or a similar spoon was 

 commonly used for Spanish mackerel, and tandem rigs 

 consisting of three 5/0-hooks baited with a whole round 

 scad were standard for king mackerel. Because of the 

 high degree of standardization, the catch and effort could 

 be averaged (Ricker 1958) to derive meaningful indices of 



Table 5.— Monthly catch of fishes by 99 interviewed anglers at Bailey Bridge, 1973. (No anglers were present at Bailey Bridge on survey days 



during January.) 



Month (number of anglers) 



Species 



F(7) M(ll) A(4) M(2) J(8) 



J(14) A(14) 



S(5) 0(6) N(19) D(9) 



Sum 



Percent 



Spotted seatrout 

 Throwback' 

 Pinfish 

 Sea catfish 

 Sheepshead 

 Black drum 

 Atlantic croaker 

 Silver perch 

 Sand seatrout 

 Pigfish 



Gafftopsail catfish 

 Crevallejack 

 Hammerhead* 

 Gulf toadfish 

 Total 



1 



1 



9 



3 



1 

 1 



1 



17 



7 

 29 



7 



10 



6 



3 





11 





1 





3 



8 



1 



1 





1 



23 



35 



30 



31 



65 

 39 



15 

 10 

 10 

 9 

 9 

 7 

 6 



175 



37.1 

 22.3 

 8.6 

 5.7 

 5.7 

 5.1 

 5.1 

 4.0 

 3.4 

 0.6 

 0.6 

 0.6 

 0.6 

 0.6 

 110.0 



•Species unknown. 



