1971, definitive results may be obtained or trends 

 mav be discerned. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



We are indebted to many people for helping us 

 obtain the data on which this report is based. First, 

 we very much appreciate the help given us by the 

 officers of the cooperating organizations, namely, 

 the New Orleans Big Game Fishing Club (H. Pra- 

 ger, Jr., President), Mobile Big Game Fishing 

 Club (C.M.A. Rogers, III, Past President, and G. 

 Cabanis, Jr., President), Pensacola Big Game Fish- 

 ing Club (F. Neth, President), Destin Charter Boat 

 Association (B. Bacon, President), and the Panama 

 City Charter Boat Association (R. Stone. Presi- 

 dent). We are especially indebted to H. Howcott, 

 who unselfishly spent much time and effort in help- 

 ing us get our program underway and in advising us 

 after the program was started. Some others who 

 were extremely helpful in various ways were L. 

 Ogren, G. Maddox, J. Yurt, R. Metcalfe, J. Ogle, 

 J. Lockfaw, R. Schwartz, R. Brunson, T. East- 

 burn, K. Scales, III, F. Hubbard, C. Hughes, J. 

 Dunlap, K. Reed, L. Freeman, F. Jones, and R. 

 Martin. Finally, we owe much to all boat captains 

 and anglers who provided us with data. 



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