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BULLETIN OE THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
1912, 1914, and 1915, it occurred at about 50 per cent of our stations (fig. 48), with 
the records for those months distributed generally throughout the offshore parts of 
the gulf as well as over Georges and Brown’s Banks and over the shelf off Marthas 
Vineyard and Nantucket. 
Fig. 48. — Occurrence of the euphausiid shrimp, Thysanoessa inermis, for June, July, and August. O, occurred; O, not 
taken; x, records by Hansen (1915). The hatched curve incloses the area where it has occurred at 50 per cent of the 
stations 
This species (figs. 48 and 49) has occasionally been recorded close to land in 
Massachusetts Bay and may be abundant temporarily in Eastport Harbor, as just 
noted, but its presence in these estuarine waters is only sporadic in summer. Nor 
