TM 111 Table 9

Home Table 9. Summary of monthly catches (lb; retained catches and discards combined) taken inside 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	15	32	61	97	37	63	305
Fishing effort (hr)	71.5	75.9	230.0	421.5	110.1	238.7	1147.7
Haddock¹	180	6	1,782	12,628	21,343	24,995	60,934
Atlantic cod¹	4,499	8,752	18,156	101,335	8,212	21,043	161,997
Pollock¹	975	21	20,009	29,397	846	3,363	54,611
Yellowtail flounder¹	93	142	714	15,114	362	1,135	17,560
Winter flounder¹	128	405	355	99	491	2,139	3,617
Witch flounder¹	219	0	1,018	1,197	465	1,035	3,934
Windowpane¹	21	47	139	207	37	70	521
American plaice¹	421	113	1,093	5,460	4,096	5,626	16,809
Acadian redfish¹	1	0	144	11	1	0	157
White hake¹	341	30	2,019	1,998	679	3,547	8,614
Red hake¹	64	0	4	0	0	560	628
Silver hake¹	63	0	93	212	74	51	493
Ocean pout¹	135	0	264	2,409	268	415	3,491
Cusk	97	0	1,399	1,827	678	730	4,731
Atlantic wolffish	24	2	96	114	116	125	477
Goosefish	3,423	102	6,476	3,361	2,242	1,920	17,524
Skates	4,175	7,374	18,262	36,796	16,882	10,285	93,774
Spiny dogfish	275	0	2,953	8,449	1,337	658	13,672
Other fishes²	528	327	518	3,951	849	791	6,964
American lobster	480	129	1,425	1,090	362	291	3,777
Other invertebrates³	26	4	9	38	34	95	206
Total	16,168	17,454	76,928	225,693	59,374	78,874	474,491
Total FMP species¹	7,140	9,516	45,790	170,067	36,874	63,979	333,366
Haddock catches as a % of:
All species	1.1	0.0	2.3	5.6	35.9	31.7	12.8
FMP species¹	2.5	0.1	3.9	7.4	57.9	39.1	18.3
Haddock
Catch/tow (lb)	12.0	0.2	29.2	130.2	576.8	396.7	199.8
CPUE (lb/hr)	2.5	0.1	7.7	30.0	193.9	104.7	53.1
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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