. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. THE NORTllKKN ANCHOVY IX CAI;IFOKNMA KISFIKRV in: The length measuremeiils wci'c coiupiliMl into frecnieiu-ies at each 2 mm. and gronped into three-iiioiitli intervals as follows: Decembei'-Fcbrnary (winter) March-May (si)ring) June-Angiist (summer) September-November (fall) Tlie resulting frequency polj'gons for ^Monterey (Figure 2) show that the largest anchovy measured Avas 184 mm. and the smallest 96 mm., standard length, or a
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. THE NORTllKKN ANCHOVY IX CAI;IFOKNMA KISFIKRV in: The length measuremeiils wci'c coiupiliMl into frecnieiu-ies at each 2 mm. and gronped into three-iiioiitli intervals as follows: Decembei'-Fcbrnary (winter) March-May (si)ring) June-Angiist (summer) September-November (fall) Tlie resulting frequency polj'gons for ^Monterey (Figure 2) show that the largest anchovy measured Avas 184 mm. and the smallest 96 mm., standard length, or and indues, total lengtli, with an avei-age of mm., standard length, or inches total length. Throughout the spring and summer of 1947, when the most consistent sam|)liiig was carried on, there was some suggestion of a progressive size inci-ease with a r(\*>ression in the following fall and winter. Data ai-e too fragmentary- in the succeeding vears to give adtUtional information ou this. As witli mauy fishes the female anchovy reaches a greater maximum size than does the male. The largest male was 174 nmi. and the largest female 184 80 90 100 110 120 130 STANDARD LENGTH IN MILLIMETERS FIGURE 3. Length frequency polygons of anchovies taken in the Southern California bait fishery Anchovies in the Southern California bait fishery were markedly smaller than those taken at Monterey (Figure 3). In this fishery lengths range from 48 to 166 mm., standard length, or to inches total length, with an average of nnn. or inches, total length. As in 1947 at Monterey, there is some suggestion of a size increase during the spring and summer of 1948. The group of small fish 50-70 mm., obviously fish of the year, and the group 70-90 mm., probably also fish of the year, were taken during the summer. These small anchovies occurred in sam- ples collected from Ventura to Oceanside. The single sample of 100 large fish obtained in the summer of 1951 was taken off
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