NOAA/NMFS/NWFSC TM-31: Data Collection -- Groundfish: Table 3.7

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NOAA-NMFS-NWFSC TM-31: Data Collection -- Groundfish (cont):

Table 3.7
Number of species-composition samples collected in Oregon, 1981-1992.


Year	Number of samples^a

1981	234
1982	458
1983	683
1984	662
1985	829
1986	762
1987	698
1988	613
1989	547
1990	671
1991	1,012
1992	1,096

^aNumber of samples denotes the total number of boat trip samples selected over all market categories. Prior to 1989, a subsample (basket of fish) selected from a market category of a boat trip sample was composed of a fixed number of fish. From 1989 through the present, subsamples have been taken as fixed weights of fish.