TM 111 Table 16

Home Table 16. Summary of monthly discarded catches (lb) taken outside Area II during the January-June 1994 experimental fishery. (All data are based on observed tows only.)
Statistic/Species	Month						Total
Statistic/Species	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Total
No. of observed tows	9	26	53	5	36	11	140
Fishing effort (hr)	39.8	71.9	166.7	19.3	126.1	42.4	466.2
Haddock¹	5	61	241	319	304	5,259	6,189
Atlantic cod¹	12	2	429	9	139	0	591
Pollock¹	3	2	47	0	10	0	62
Yellowtail flounder¹	0	0	18	48	4	0	70
Winter flounder¹	0	2	22	0	0	0	24
Witch flounder¹	34	2	111	0	23	0	170
Windowpane¹	0	3	118	0	35	0	156
American plaice¹	16	4	110	0	71	0	201
Acadian redfish¹	0	53	113	0	171	0	337
White hake¹	2	26	77	0	162	0	267
Red hake¹	129	0	0	0	0	0	129
Silver hake¹	90	41	129	11	48	0	319
Ocean pout¹	7	0	338	300	374	65	1,084
Cusk	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Atlantic wolffish	0	0	4	0	0	0	4
Goosefish	80	0	179	12	200	0	471
Skates	78	1,804	5,643	1,970	5,852	1,230	16,577
Spiny dogfish	44	544	428	60	4,234	440	5,750
Other fishes²	68	164	422	441	506	135	1,736
American lobster	108	6	74	6	109	0	303
Other invertebrates³	53	376	93	0	48	0	570
Total	729	3,090	8,596	3,176	12,290	7,129	35,010
Total FMP species¹	298	196	1,753	687	1,341	5,324	9,599
Haddock discards as a % of:
All species	0.7	2.0	2.8	10.0	2.5	73.8	17.7
FMP species¹	1.7	31.1	13.7	46.4	22.7	98.8	64.5
¹Thirteen species in Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan: haddock, Atlantic cod, pollock, yellowtail flounder, winter flounder, witch flounder, windowpane, American plaice, Acadian redfish, white hake, red hake, silver hake, and ocean pout. ²Other fishes comprised 23 species. (See Table 1.) ³Other invertebrates comprised eight species. (See Table 1.)

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