Virgin Islands Ecological Research Station
Results of 15 months of exploratory fishing around the Virgin Islands (and complementary data freom neighboring islands); stocks fo snapper and grouper of some value to local commercial and sport fisheries have been found in deep water at the shelf edges
Environment - Protection - Samoa
VF 41222
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Contents: 3. acknowledgements, 4. introduction, 7. exploratory fishing, 7. sampling, 8. Map of the Virgin Islands (figure 1), 11. gear and methods employed, 13. fish traps and set lines (figures 2 & 3), 16. bait, 17. regional cooperation, 18. results, 19. catch pere unit effort graph (figure 4), 21. reel fishing CPE (table 1), Trap fishing CPE (Table 2), 29. development, 33. ciguatera, 35. case descriptions, 39. ecology, 41. fish data summary tables (I., a.b.c.), 44. depth distribution graph (figure 5), 45. length frequency graph (figure 6), 46. group0ers (serranidae), 55. tilefishes (branchiostegidae), 56. Jacks (carangidae), 59. snappers (Lutjanidae), 68. silk snapper, length weight (figure 7), 72. grunts (pomadasyidae), 73. conclusions and recommendations, 74. basic action needed, 75. proposed menas for implementation, 79. specific considerations concerning the fishery, 83. literature cited, 86. appendices
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