Effects of climatic cycles on the relative abundance and availability of commercial marine and estuarine species

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Abstract
Fluctuations in the total weight and number of species, and the volume of each of 24 species inthe annual catch of marine and estuarine fisheries of the Maine coast, representing 80% of total production, are highly significantly correlated with sea temperature cycles. Another seven species representing an additional two percent of total annual catch are significantly correlated in relative abundance or availability with the same cycles.