Status Of The Fisheries Of The Middle Atlantic Bight Region

"For the purposes of this paper, the Middle Atlantic Bight region is defined as those parts of United States Atlantic coastal waters from New York to Virginia inclusive and out to the edge of the continental shelf. This is the region of interest to the Mid- Atlantic Fishery Management Council and its member states, and to the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Development Foundation. It has produced maximum annual domestic commercial fish and shellfish landings of about 1.5 billion pounds, a maximum annual foreign catch of more than 700 million pounds, and a recreational catch of more than 300 million pounds a year"--Introduction. J.L. McHugh. "October 1979." "Sponsored in part by New York Sea Grant Institute under a grant from the Office of Sea Grant, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S.Department of Commerce; and in part by a direct grant from NOAA." Also available online in PDF via the National Sea Grant Library. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 56).