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eo - 
60 - 
40 - 
20 - 
Smooth flounder 
April 
i 
ao - 
60 - 
-40 - 
20 - 
j May 
Jk- 
Winter flounder 
80 
60 - 
-40 - 
20 - 
Jl 3 
June 
80 - 
60 - 
40 - 
20 - 
> 
o „ 
■ July 
.Jl. 
July 
k. 
c ° 
<D 
-3 ao - 
O' 
CD 
60 
20 - 
August 
August 
LL 
40 - 
20 - 
JL 
_Uj 
80 - 
60 - 
2° - 
September 
15- 
September 
40 - 
20 - 
Jk 
80 - 
October 20 
lI October 
60 
40 - 
20 - 
15 
Jl 
JL 
O - 
80 - 
60 - 
-40 ~ 
20 - 
O - 

November 
j4l 
□ 50 1 OO 1 50 200 250 300 
D 50 IOO 150 200 250 300 
Total length (mm) 
Figure 6 
Monthly length frequencies (5-mm size classes) of smooth flounder, Pleuronectes putnami , and win- 
ter flounder, P. americanus at site 2, pooled over 1989-91. 
Winter flounder showed little segregation by size 
along the depth gradient. This finding is in contrast 
with other studies, which have shown that juvenile 
winter flounder segregate by size along depth gradi- 
ents according to differential preferences to tempera- 
ture and light intensity, with smallest individuals found 
