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Investigation of the distribution and abundance of swordfish along the AtlanticContinental Shelf and slope has helped establishing a new longline fishery forswordfish

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Investigation of the distribution and abundance of swordfish along the AtlanticContinental Shelf and slope has helped establishing a new longline fishery forswordfish. This longline catch of 18 swordfish on the BCF ship DELAWARE was the result of one night's fishing at the edge of the continental shelf south ofCape Cod.

Display Date

1963 June 8

Location

Massachusetts, offshore Atlantic Ocean

Collection

Historic Fisheries