Excerpt from Fishes Taken During Shrimp Trawling Along the South an Atlantic Coast of the United States, 1931-35Fish of numerous families and species are taken with shrimp on the shrimping grounds. Records of the fish taken during a study of the white shrimp by the u.s. Bureau of Fisheries, are provided. These records cover the coast from Cape Romain, s.c., to Cape Kennedy, Fla., and are organized under four basic areas: South Carolina Outside, Georgia Outside, Georgia Inside, and Florida Outside. The entire region is treated also as a unit. Yearly and monthly average numbers of fish taken per hour of trawling and percentages of the catch are provided for all species for the region and for the several basic areas.Seasonal variation in the numbers of fish on the shrimp fishing grounds is large, numbers are lowest during the late winter and spring, build up rapidly in the summer and early fall, and are highest in the late fall and early winter.The croaker family (sciaenidae) was the most abundant and important found on the shrimp fishing grounds. Croakers were captured in greater numbers than all other families of fish combined in every month of the year.Four families of fish-the Sciaenidae (croakers), Carangidae (jacks), Ariidae (sea catfish), and Bothidae (flounders)-were taken in greatest numbers per hour of trawling and together contributed almost 87 percent of the yearly average catch in the region.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.