Excerpt from Drift Bottle Records for Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank, 1931-56 The apparent decline of the cod and haddock in this area has demanded attention over a period of years. Fishery biologists and oceanographers have been making concerted efforts to understand better the many complex, interrelated factors which influence the productivity of these fisheries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.