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This issue of the Bulletin is set out in four parts: Part I contains summaries of catches of selected
finfish and invertebrate species by country and subarea for 1971-85; Part II contains the statistics of
nominal catches and fishing effort for 1985; Part Ill contains the seal catches and hunting effort for 1985;
and Part IV, if present, contains corrections to previous issues of the Bulletin. In tables where various
groups of species are used, the groups and group names are in accordance with those in the " List of
Northwest Atlantic Species". Further details of the tabular presentation of data are given in the text at the
beginning of each Part and in the section entitled " Definitions and Abbreviations".
The Secretariat is pleased to acknowledge the efforts of countries through their statistical agencies
in maintaining records of their fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic and contributing the data for publication
in the Bulletin . In addition, the guidance of the Scientific Council and its Standing Committee on
Research Coordination and the Coordinating Working Party on Atlantic Fishery Statistics has been
invaluable.
The delayed publication of this issue (Vol. 35) was due to the very late receipt of final statistics from the
Gulf Region of the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans .