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BULLETIN OE THE BUREAU OP FISHERIES 
It is quite evident that the larger representatives of the O class are missing 
for several months. For other months intermediate sizes are not included. This 
seems to be due largely to the methods of collecting, for it was only during the later 
Figure 59. — Growth curve of young croakers based on Table 10. Solid line, average of all 
fish; broken line, smallest fish; dot-and-dash line, largest fish 
months of the work that proper methods were developed for collecting fishes too 
large to be captured with 1-meter townets, yet too small to be caught with the 
ordinary collecting seines and trawls. 
