CONTENTS 



Acknowledgments 1 



Distribution and relative abundance of American lobster, Homarus americanas, larvae: A review. M. J. Fogarty 3 



An overview of larval American lobster, Homarus americanus, sampling programs in New England during 1974-79. M. J. 



Fogarty and R. Lawton 9 



Distribution and abundance of lobster larvae (Homarus americanus) in Block Island Sound. B. G. Bibb, R. L. Hersey, 



and R. A. Marcello, Jr 15 



Distribution, relative abundance, and seasonal production of American lobster, Homarus americanus, larvae in Block 



Island Sound in 1978. M. J. Fogarty, M. A. Hyman, G. F. Johnson, and C. A. Griscom 23 



Distribution and abundance of larval lobsters (Homarus americanus) in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, during 1976-79. 



F. E. Lux, G. F. Kelly, and C. L. Wheeler 29 



The spatio-temporal distribution of American lobster, Homarus americanus, larvae in the Cape Cod Canal and ap- 

 proaches. W. S. Collings, C. Cooper-Sheehan, S. C. Hughes, and J. L. Buckley 35 



Observations on the seasonal occurrence, abundance, and distribution of larval lobsters (Homarus americanus) in Cape 



Cod Bay. G. C. Matthiessen and M. D. Scherer 41 



Distribution and abundance of larval American lobsters, Homarus americanus Milne-Edwards, in the western inshore 



region of Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts. R. Lawton, E. Kouloheras, P. Brady, W. Sides, and M. Borgatti 47 



New Hampshire lobster larvae studies. S. A. Grabe, J. W. Shipman, and W. S. Bosworth 53 



Abundance and distribution of lobster larvae (Homarus americanus) for selected locations in Penobscot Bay, Maine. 



D. M. Greenstein, L. C. Alexander, and D. E. Richter 59 



A comparison of lobster larvae sampling using neuston and Tucker nets. B. G. Bibb, R. L. Hersey, and R. A. Marcello, 



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