NOAA Tech Memo 115

NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-115

Status of Fishery Resources off the Northeastern United States for 1998
Stephen H. Clark, Editor
National Marine Fisheries Serv., Woods Hole Lab., 166 Water St., Woods Hole, MA 02543
Web version posted November 18, 2002
Citation: Clark SH, Editor. 1998. Status of Fishery Resources off the Northeastern United States for 1998. US Dep Commer, NOAA Tech Memo NMFS NE 115; 149 p.

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Contents

Introduction

Fishery Landings Trends

Aggregate Resource Trends

Fishery Economic Trends

Northeast Groundfish Fishery Buyout Program

Species Synopses

Principal Groundfish

Atlantic cod - Gadus morhua

Haddock - Melanogrammus aeglefinus

Redfish - Sebastes fasciatus

Silver hake (whiting) - Merluccius bilinearis

Red hake - Urophycis chuss

Pollock - Pollachius virens

Flounders

Yellowtail flounder - Limanda ferruginea

Summer flounder (fluke) - Paralichthys dentatus

American plaice (dab) - Hippoglossoides platessoides

Witch flounder (gray sole) - Glyptocephalus cynoglossus

Winter flounder (blackback, lemon sole) - Pseudopleuronectes americanus

Windowpane (sand flounder) - Scophthalmus aquosus

Other Groundfish

Goosefish (angler, monkfish) - Lophius americanus

Scup (porgy) - Stenotomus chrysops

Black sea bass - Centropristis striata

Ocean pout - Macrozoarces americanus

White hake - Urophycis tenuis

Cusk - Brosme brosme

Atlantic wolffish (catfish) - Anarhichas lupus

Tilefish - Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps

Principal Pelagics

Atlantic herring - Clupea harengus

Atlantic mackerel - Scomber scombrus

Other Fish

Butterfish - Peprilus triacanthus

Bluefish - Pomatomus saltatrix

Spiny dogfish - Squalus acanthias

Skates - Rajidae

Invertebrates

Northern shortfin squid - Illex illecebrosus

Longfin inshore squid - Loligo pealei

American lobster - Homarus americanus

Northern shrimp (pink shrimp) - Pandalus borealis

Atlantic surfclam - Spisula solidissima

Ocean quahog - Arctica islandica

Sea scallop - Placopecten magellanicus

Anadromous Fish

River herring (alewife, blueback herring) - Alosa pseudoharengus, Alosa aestivalis

American shad - Alosa sapidissima

Striped bass - Morone saxatilis

Atlantic salmon - Salmo salar

Atlantic and shortnose sturgeons - Acipenser oxyrhynchus, Acipenser brevirostrum

Marine Mammals

Harbor porpoise - Phocoena phocoena