. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 21 - 1955 - 1956 )f= .•^ l£mf aibiii M^kM n 1 M finn - I960 - 1964 N!708 7 = aJHllllilllli I. LENGTH (CM.) Fig. 3 - Length frequency distributions of albacore from Hawaiian waters, 1955-56, 1960-64, and 1965- periods: 1955-56,1960-64, and 1965-68 (fig. 3). No data are available for 1957-59 because the Honolulu markets were not sampled then. The average length (sexes combined) of cm. in 1955-56 decreased to cm. in 1960-64, and to cm. in 1965-68. This decrease is even more striking when males are considered separ
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 21 - 1955 - 1956 )f= .•^ l£mf aibiii M^kM n 1 M finn - I960 - 1964 N!708 7 = aJHllllilllli I. LENGTH (CM.) Fig. 3 - Length frequency distributions of albacore from Hawaiian waters, 1955-56, 1960-64, and 1965- periods: 1955-56,1960-64, and 1965-68 (fig. 3). No data are available for 1957-59 because the Honolulu markets were not sampled then. The average length (sexes combined) of cm. in 1955-56 decreased to cm. in 1960-64, and to cm. in 1965-68. This decrease is even more striking when males are considered separately. The modal sizes decreased from about 116 cm. in 1955-56 to 109 cm. in 1960-64, and to about 105 cm. in 1965-68. There was no reduction in mean size of females over the years. An outstanding feature of the albacore taken in Hawaii is their very large size; in fact, they are generally larger than those taken anywhere else in the Pacific. Otsu and Uchida reported in 1959 a ( kg. or 93 lb.) male as the largest albacore landed in Hawaii in 1955 or 1956. Since sampling was resumed in 1960, four unusually large speci- mens (all males) have been recorded (table 2). The longest (taken July 21, 1966) measured Table 2 - Records of the Five Largest Albacore (All Males) Taken by the Hawaiian Long-line Fishery and Sampled at the Honolulu Markets Since 1955 Date Length Cm. Weight Kg. July 8, 1955 June 26, 1964 September 28, 1964 October 25, 1965 July 21, 1966 and weighed kg. (90 lb.); the heaviest (taken October 25, 1965) weighed kg. (98 lb.; length, cm.). In com- parison, only 22 of 373,754 albacore sampled from the Japanese long-line fishery in the North Pacific in 1949-59 (Suda, 1963a) were longer than 120 cm.; the maximum length was 124 cm. The albacore caught throughout the South Pacific by long-line vessels based at Ameri- can Samoa are also considerably smaller than Hawaiian, They a
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