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Mullet taken in experimental gill net. Four species of mullet are abundant incoastal and estuarine waters throughout tropic, semitropic, and temperatezones. These food fish - now caught in limited amounts - are a largely untapped resource in the West-Central Atlantic. (Image credit: NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 381 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume)