1960) tabulated daily surface water tempera- 

 tures at Grand Marian, daily surface water tem- 

 peratures and salinities at Texas Tower No. 2 on 

 Georges Shoal, and daily water temperatures at 

 the surface and at 30,50, 100, and 150 feet, and 

 salinity at the surface and at 150 feet at Port- 

 land, Boston, and Nantucket Shoal Lightships for 

 1956, 1957, 1958, and 1959. They plotted mean 

 temperatures for each level for three equal time 

 periods per month as time profiles for the year 

 for each station. They plotted also the 10-day 

 mean surface temperature and the 10-daymean 

 surface salinity and the weekly mean bottom sa- 

 linity values for each station and discussed the 

 general hydrographic conditions at each station. 



A study of distribution and species com- 

 position of zooplankton in the inner Bay of 

 Fundy was made by Jermolajev (1958) on the 

 basis of ring-net tows made in August and 

 September 1920 and in July 1951. He found 

 the inner Bay of Fundy practically devoid of 

 locally produced plankton, and the few species 

 present were estuarine species from Minas 

 Basin and Chignecto Bay or immigrants from 

 the open Gulf. The endemic species were 

 found along the shore while the immigrant 

 species were most abundant in the mouth of 

 the Bay. The extreme paucity of the plankton 

 in the inner Bay, as well as the poor condition 

 of the few immigrant species, was associated 

 with the low productivity of the area. 



Wigley (1960) described the distribution and 

 the temperature - bottom sediment relations 

 of four species of pandalid shrimp in the Gulf 

 of Maine and off southern New England as 

 determined by otter trawl catches of the 

 Albatross III during November 1956. 

 Dichelopandalus leptocerus was found over 

 the entire area, in a wide range of depth and 

 temperature, and over sediments of varying 

 quantities of organic matter. Pandalus borealis 

 occurred in a limited area of the central and 

 western Gulf of Maine, in water of moderate 

 depth and low temperatures, and over sedi- 

 ments of high organic content. P. montagui 

 was found along the periphery of the Gulf, in 

 water of moderate depth and low temperature, 

 and over sediments of relatively low organic 

 content. P. propinquus was found in deep and 

 moderately cold water in the central Gulf and 

 over sediments containing medium or high 

 quantities of organic matter. 



Chevrier and Trites (1960) described the 

 seasonal pattern of surface circulation in the 

 Quoddy Region and contiguous areas of the 

 Gulf of Maine on the basis of drift bottle 

 releases in the period January 1957 through 

 December 1958. In the outer Quoddy Region, 

 the nontidal drift was usually southerly. Sur- 

 face waters leaving the area moved outward 

 between the Wolves and Point Lepreau, then 

 southward off the eastern side of Grand 

 Manan Island. The final movement was either 

 across the mouth of the Bay of Fundy to Nova 

 Scotia or along the coast of Maine. 



Bumpus (1961) recorded the release and re- 

 covery points of drift bottles released in the 

 Gulf of Maine from research vessels, light- 

 ships, and Texas Tower No. 2 on Georges 

 Shoal during 1956-58. The listings include all 

 recoveries as of August 1960. Diagrams of the 

 surface circulation as deduced from the re- 

 coveries accompany the data. 



Quantitative samples of the sediments and 

 benthic fauna were obtained at locations on 

 and adjacent to Georges Bank aboard the 

 Albatro ss III in August 1957 to ascertain 

 particle size composition and related com- 

 ponents and to make a preliminary quantitative 

 study of the benthic fauna. Wigley (196 la) 

 described the particle size composition, type, 

 sorting, organic content, shell content, and 

 color of the sediments in various regions of 

 Georges Bank. He discussed (196lb) the dis- 

 tribution and abundance of benthic fauna in 

 relation to the sediment and geographic loca- 

 tion. Four major taxonomic groups (Crustacea, 

 Mollusca, Echinodermata, and Annelida) com- 

 posed the bulk of Georges Bank benthic fauna. 

 Pronounced differences in faunal abundance 

 and species composition in relation to geo- 

 graphic location and bottom sediments were 

 observed. 



Kelly and Barker (1961) discussed the re- 

 sults of a study of the vertical distribution of 

 young redfish ( Sebastes marinus) during the 

 summers of 1957 and 1958. A midwater trawl 

 was towed at a series of depths from the 

 surface to 150 m. at stations in the south- 

 western part of the Gulf of Maine. These 

 data do not show diurnal vertical movements 

 of the planktonic larvae. Newly spawned larvae 

 concentrated in the upper 10 m. of water, 

 10-20 mm. larvae concentrated at 20 m. and 

 within the thermocline, and fish exceeding 

 25 mm. concentrated in deeper water below 

 the thermocline. The length of the redfish 

 that had moved to the bottom was between 40 

 and 50 mm. 



Miller, Colton, and Marak's paper (1963), 

 the final one to be published based on obser- 

 vations made in the Gulf of Maine during the 

 1950's, was a study undertaken in May 1958 

 of the vertical distribution of larval haddock 

 at three locations on Georges Bank. Modified 

 Hardy plankton samplers towed at 7 knots for 

 30 minutes at depths of 1, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 

 and 75 m. collected simultaneous samples of 

 larvae at 2-hour intervals. The results showed 

 that the sampling technique employed elim- 

 inated differences in the day and night catches 

 resulting from avoidance, and that although 

 haddock larvae were found throughout the 

 upper 50 m. of the water column, maximum 

 concentrations occurred between 20 and 30 m. 

 Over 80 percent of the larvae occurred within 

 the depth limits of the thermocline. There 

 was no indication of a diurnal change in 

 depth distribution, although periodic changes 

 in larval depth coinciding with periodic 



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