TM 111 Table 11

Home Table 11. Summary of monthly discarded catches (lb) 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	12,128	21,272	24,495	59,863
Atlantic cod¹	39	3	59	638	131	248	1,118
Pollock¹	7	0	0	25	3	3	38
Yellowtail flounder¹	1	1	57	367	36	2	464
Winter flounder¹	0	2	1	0	0	0	3
Witch flounder¹	20	0	17	77	54	1	169
Windowpane¹	21	9	58	97	28	0	213
American plaice¹	31	0	11	123	151	51	367
Acadian redfish¹	1	0	0	2	0	0	3
White hake¹	0	0	0	93	77	2	172
Red hake¹	64	0	2	0	0	0	66
Silver hake¹	63	0	15	209	74	23	384
Ocean pout¹	135	0	264	2,304	268	415	3,386
Cusk	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Atlantic wolffish	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Goosefish	73	0	61	217	146	0	497
Skates	3,645	6,606	17,295	35,716	14,802	6,095	84,159
Spiny dogfish	275	0	2,953	8,449	1,337	658	13,672
Other fishes²	458	327	406	3,590	754	779	6,314
American lobster	100	4	101	334	168	67	774
Other invertebrates³	26	4	9	28	32	95	194
Total	5,139	6,962	23,092	64,397	39,333	45,940	171,857
Total FMP species¹	562	21	2,266	16,063	22,094	25,240	66,246
Haddock discards as a % of:
All species	3.5	0.1	7.7	18.8	54.1	74.4	34.8
FMP species¹	32.0	28.6	78.6	75.5	96.3	97.0	90.4
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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