Fishery bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service - NOAA

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FISHERY BULLETIN OP THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Examining in greater detail the distribution in the successive cruises, two concentrations
were evident within the area over which the larvae of this series were distributed.
One may be called the northern center; the other, the southern center.
The northern center was off the northern part of New Jersey (New York II) 14 in the
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MAY 3-6
MAY 10-14
MAY 21-23
MAY 24-26
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FIOUKE 13.—Location on successive cruises during 1032 of the population of mackerel comprising the S group, as indicated by the
relative concentration of larvae of appropriate siies. The Arabic numerals at the ends of rows of stations give the day of month
on which each row was occupied.
early egg stages. In the successive, cruises it may be traced to the north central coast
of New Jersey (Barnegat I), to the southern part of New Jersey (Cape May II, III,
Atlantic City II), back to the south central portion of the New Jersey coast (Atlantic
City I), to the north central portion (Barnegat I), to the northern portion (New York
II), to the offing of Long Island (Shinnecock II and Montauk III), to the Long Island
coast (Shinnecock I and II), and finally to the offing of eastern Massachusetts (Chatham
II and Cape Anne II).
» For location of this and below-mentioned stations see flg. 14.
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