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The croaker is the dominant fish caught with trawls in the northern Gulf ofMexico

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The croaker is the dominant fish caught with trawls in the northern Gulf ofMexico. Large croakers find a ready market as food fish. In the 1950's a newfishery was started to supply small-sized bottomfishes - mainly croaker, spot,sand trout, and silver trout - to canneries packing pet food.

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NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 207 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume

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Historic Fisheries