Excerpt from Age and Size Composition of the Menhaden Catch Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, 1962: With a Brief Review of the Commercial Fishery The mean lengths and mean weights of age-4 fish were less than the 7-year means in all areas except the Chesapeake Bay Area. The means of fish older than age 4 were about the same as the 7-year means, and the means of age-2 and -3 fish were greater thanthe 7-year means. The means of age-1 fish were less in the Middle Atlantic Area, but greater in the South Atlantic and Chesapeake Bay Areas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.