. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 23, No. 1 fathoms, yielded shrimp at rates from 80 to 300 pounds per hour. The shallowest of these drags (drag 54) produced shrimp at the rate of 300 pounds per hour. All of these were pink shrimp averaging 98 count. This catch was also clean, being composed of 88-percent shrimp. The other 3 drags were moderately trashy. OFFSHORE, SOUTHWEST OF MONTAGUE ISLAND: Drag number 55, outside Whidbey Bay in 55 to 59 fathoms, took pink shrimp (104 count) at a rate of 660 pounds per hour. This was a clean catch compose
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 23, No. 1 fathoms, yielded shrimp at rates from 80 to 300 pounds per hour. The shallowest of these drags (drag 54) produced shrimp at the rate of 300 pounds per hour. All of these were pink shrimp averaging 98 count. This catch was also clean, being composed of 88-percent shrimp. The other 3 drags were moderately trashy. OFFSHORE, SOUTHWEST OF MONTAGUE ISLAND: Drag number 55, outside Whidbey Bay in 55 to 59 fathoms, took pink shrimp (104 count) at a rate of 660 pounds per hour. This was a clean catch composed of 89 per-! cent shrimp. Another drag (drag 26) south of Puget Bay in 106 to 110 fath- ! oms, caught shrimp at a rate of 400 pounds per hour. This catch, however,i was trashy, and shrimp constituted ^2/T\ \ _ only 29 percent of the total weight. g^k Bk ^ f *s^^ftk> ^e remainmg successful drags in H| ^^^MflB'^Ki tMs area were made between 59 and I T -V8&mL W^^^M ^2 fathoms. The shrimp catches I jl W^jft**^^^ \ ranged from 30 to 220 pounds per hour _ I A mm Wtmm and were composed primarily of pinks ranging in average size per drag from 62 to 140 count. The balance were sidestripe shrimp ranging in average size per drag from 22 to 64 count. Dragging bottom in this area is good in water deeper than 70 fathoms. Drags outside Puget Bay and southwest of Cape Cleare in depths shallower than 70 fathoms were hindered by a very strong westerly current, and attempts to fish here re- sulted in failure of the gear to reach bottom, twisted gear, or bogged doors. Off Whidbey Bay, in water shallower than 70 fathoms, the bottom is irregular and composed of rock in some locations; consequently only short drags were possible in a relatively narrow depth range. MONTAGUE STRAIT AND GREEN ISLAND AREA: Nineteen drags were made here in. Fig. 5 drag - A clean catch of 330 pounds of predominantly pink shrimp from a iade in Day Harbor. The best shrimp catch (drag number 34) consisted 9& depth
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