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Table 1. Species caught in
the January-June 1994 experimental fishery |
Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Principal Fishes
|
Acadian redfish |
Sebastes fasciatus |
American plaice |
Hippoglossoides platessoides |
Atlantic cod |
Gadus morhua |
Atlantic wolffish |
Anarhichas lupus |
Cusk |
Brosme brosme |
Goosefish |
Lophius americanus |
Haddock |
Melanogrammus aeglefinus |
Ocean pout |
Macrozoarces americanus |
Pollock |
Pollachius virens |
Red hake |
Urophycis chuss |
Silver hake |
Merluccius bilinearis |
Skates |
Raja spp. |
Spiny dogfish |
Squalus acanthias |
White hake |
Urophycis tenuis |
Windowpane |
Scophthalmus aquosus |
Winter flounder |
Pleuronectes americanus |
Witch flounder |
Glyptocephalus cynoglossus |
Yellowtail flounder |
Pleuronectes ferrugineus |
Other Fishes
|
Alewife |
Alosa pseudoharengus |
American shad |
Alosa sapidissima |
Atlantic halibut |
Hippoglossus hippoglossus |
Atlantic herring |
Clupea harengus |
Atlantic mackerel |
Scomber scombrus |
Atlantic menhaden |
Brevoortia tyrannus |
Atlantic torpedo |
Torpedo nobiliana |
Bluefish |
Pomatomus saltatrix |
Buckler dory |
Zenopsis conchifera |
Butterfish |
Peprilus triacanthus |
Conger eel |
Conger oceanicus |
Cunner |
Tautogolabrus adspersus |
Fourspot flounder |
Paralichthys oblongus |
Lumpfish |
Cyclopterus lumpus |
Marlin-spike |
Nezumia bairdi |
Sculpins |
Myoxocephalus spp. |
Scup |
Stenotomus chrysops |
Sea lamprey |
Petromyzon marinus |
Sea raven |
Hemitripterus americanus |
Sharks |
Carcharhinus spp. |
Summer flounder |
Paralichthys dentatus |
Tilefish |
Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps |
Wrymouth |
Cryptacanthodes maculatus |
Principal Invertebrates
|
American lobster |
Homarus americanus |
Other Invertebrates
|
Atlantic rock crab |
Cancer irroratus |
Atlantic surfclam |
Spisula solidissima |
Jonah crab |
Cancer borealis |
Longfin squid |
Loligo pealei1 |
Northern shortfin squid |
Illex illecebrosus |
Red deepsea crab |
Geryon quinquedens |
Sea scallop |
Placopecten magellanicus |
Spoonarm octopus |
Bathypolypus arcticus |
1Changed from L. pealeii to L.
pealei per communication of M. Vecchione, NMFS National Systematics
Lab., Washington, DC; July 1996. |