UNITED STATESA DEPAflTMENI OF COMMERCE PUBLICATION .wT Or (. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Marine Bij! j a: Lj;.ofa.o.y Vl_ I £3RAR NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION AUG 101971 "^ ''itts o' MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE NOTE Until October the2, 1970, National Marine Fisheries Service, Department of Commerce, was the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, De- partment of the Interior. Throughout the body of this report, which was prepared for printing- before October older term2, the is used. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEUNITED STATES SecretaryH. Stans,Maurice NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION FISHERIES SERVICENATIONAL MARINE Philip M. Roedel, Director Lengths, by Season, of Fishes CaughtNumber and Otter Trawl near Woods Hole,with an September 1961 to December 1962Massachusetts, By E. LUX and F. E. NICHYF. FisheriesSpecial Scientific Report— No. 622 Washington, D.C. February 1971 1 CONTENTS Pao-e Introduction 1 Materials and methods 2 Notes on fishes caught 3 Carcharhinidae—requiem sliarks 4 Rajidae—skates 4 Clupeidae—herrings 4 Osmeridae—smelts 4 Synodontidae—lizardfishes 4 Anguillidae—freshwater eels 4 Cyi)rinodontidae—killifishes 4 Gadidae—codfishes and hakes fi Gasterosteidae—sticklebacks (i Syngnathidae pij.