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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
which was not heard. The only other species of flounder occurring in the commercial 
fisheries is the winter flounder ( Pseudopleuronectes americanus). It is less abundant 
and important than the summer flounder, and the catch can not be separated from 
that of the latter. Flounders are taken in the pound nets throughout the fishing sea- 
son, but the largest quantities are secured in May and June, as shown by the following 
table : 
Months. 
1891 
(1 net). 
1892 
(2 nets;. 
April 
Pounds. 
229 
21, 876 
11, 725 
1,644 
663 
1,694 
6, 143 
1,062 
Pounds. 
820 
8, 953 
3, 376 
1,854 
591 
1, 326 
June 
July 
August - 
September 
October 
Nnvfimbfir _ _ 
Total 
45, 036 
16, 928 
These figures well illustrate the variations in abundance to which marine fish are 
liable. One net in 1891 took nearly three times the quantity of fish obtained by two 
nets in the following year. 
