CRD 03-14 Table 17

CRD 03-14 Table 17 . Summary of number of trips, tows, kept and discard pounds of witch flounder, discard: kept ratio observed in the large-mesh otter trawl fishery in the Georges Bank - Gulf of Maine area (observed tows only; excluding trips targeting loligo) from the Fisheries Observer Program, 1989 - 2002.
Year	January - June								July- December								Annual mt
	Trips	Tows	fish in disc l-f	Pounds		D/K	metric tons		Trips	Tows	fish in disc lf	Pounds		D/K	metric tons
	Trips	Tows	fish in disc l-f	kept	discard	ratio	Landing	Disc.	Trips	Tows	fish in disc lf	kept	Disc	ratio	landings	discard
1989	3	17	68	850	14	0.016	1298.64	20.78	4	19	411	427	142	0.333	663.58	220.97	241.75
1990	2	2	20	50	1	0.020	795.25	15.91	1	12	10	535	48	0.090	573.98	51.66	67.56
1991	4	45	15	1655	49	0.030	757.7	22.73	6	52	148	1882	159	0.084	947.63	79.60	102.33
1992	4	80	31	1896	222	0.117	1273.78	149.03	0	0	0	0	0	*0.117*	884.62	103.50	252.53
1993	3	37	428	1607	806	0.502	1411.03	708.34	2	24	229	1665	125	0.075	1041.84	78.14	786.48
1994	5	70	63	7298	332	0.045	1427.92	64.26	5	126	125	3794	157	0.041	1139.81	46.73	110.99
1995	31	640	1500	35968	2561	0.071	1244.48	88.36	11	199	571	8240	669	0.081	878.28	71.14	159.50
1996	17	267	272	14016	1387	0.099	1049.86	103.94	1	13	75	638	90	0.141	968.59	136.57	240.51
1997	9	203	593	10907	1831	0.168	945.2	158.79	7	134	77	4518	750	0.166	772.52	128.24	287.03
1998	7	93	200	3786	595	0.157	1095.59	172.01	2	14	3	277	37	0.134	705.15	94.49	266.50
1999	3	46	5	3663	454	0.124	1149.74	142.57	15	148	225	10057	644	0.064	914.79	58.55	201.11
2000	29	211	101	25343	666	0.026	1218.38	31.68	30	266	134	26149	1711	0.065	1159.65	75.38	107.06
2001	34	332	48	36279	1864	0.051	1596.02	81.40	45	383	459	35016	3581	0.102	1356.47	138.36	219.76
2002	27	298	795	36836	2439	0.066	1678.73	110.80	83	500	2361	44451	5268	0.119	1408.75	167.64	278.44
average						0.107								0.115
Note: in 1993, one 'dirty' trip' during Jan-June; if excluded, d/k ratio = 0.132.; dis mt = 186.3 mt 1999 and 1998 annual discard length frequencies were used due to low numbers of fish in each half year.
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