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Table 7. — Recaptures of tagged Nantucket Shoals cod made within the region from Marthas Vineyard to 
Montauk Point 
(A) TEMPORAL SUMMARY 
Locality: Recaptures 
Muskeget Channel 1 
20 miles southwest of Sankaty Light 1 
No Mans Land and Gay Head 11 
Mouth of Narragansett Bay 9 
Point Judith 5 
Quonochontaug 1 
Locality— continued. Recaptures 
Fishers Island 2 
Gull Island 1 
Block Island Sound < 12 
Block Island 22 
Montauk Point 6 
1 There were received, in addition, the following recapture records from cod tagged in 1923: November, 1925, 2; December, 1925, 
2; November, 1926, 2; December, 1926, 1; and January, 1927, 1. All except the January record were received early in 1927 from the 
same fisherman and, as they do not agree with the rest of the table, are excluded because of probable error in the recapture dates. 
2 This fish was recaptured about 20 miles southwest of Sankaty Light (lat. 40° 50' N. and long. 70° 20' W.). 
! 1 cod was caught in August, 1927, in Muskegat Channel (lat. 41° 25' N. and long. 70° 19' W.). 
* The 7 recaptures of doubtful date, excluded from the temporal summary, were taken in Block Island Sound and are included in 
the regional distribution. 
The numbers of marked cod recaptured, by months, closely parallel the fluc- 
tuations in the commercial catch, as the best fishing in this region occurs during 
November, December, April, and May. 
Cod do not enter Long Island Sound farther than the mouth of the Connecticut 
River, according to the fishermen of that region, and no recaptures of tagged fish 
have been made within the sound west of Gull Island and Fishers Island. Conse- 
quently, the western route must be along the southern shore of Long Island. That 
this is so is shown by the recapture of 26 tagged cod within the sector between Mon- 
tauk Point and Fire Island Inlet. (Table 8.) 
Table 8. — Recaptures of tagged Nantucket Shoals cod made within the region from west of Montauk 
Point to Fire Island Inlet, N. Y. 
(A) TEMPORAL SUMMARY 
Locality: Recaptures 
12 miles west of Montauk Point 1 
Amagansett - _ 7 
Wainscott 2 
Watermill. 2 
Locality— Continued. Recaptures 
Quogue 1 
Westhampton 2 
Fire Island 11 
