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• Main Authors: For Major Georges Bank Fisheries, Woods Hole Massachusetts, Anne M. T. Lange, Joan E. Palmer
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1985
• Subjects: USA Historical Catch Data; 1904-82; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.295.2376; http://nefsc.noaa.gov/publications/tm/pdfs/tmfnec39.pdf

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