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Table 1. Areas of recordings (in thousand square nautical mile), average integrator deflection in mm/nautical mile (INT) and indices of abundance (IND) in each sub-area.

SUB AREA	AREA OF REC	SMALL PEL FISH				DEM FISH				AREA OF REC	MESOPEL FISH				"0-GR" FISH/PLANKTON
		SPRING		AUTUMN		SPRING		AUTUMN			SPRING		AUTUMN		SPRING		AUTUMN
		INT	IND	INT	IND	INT	IND	INT	IND		INT	IND	INT	IND	INT	IND	INT	IND
1	3.0	9.4	28	3.1	9	2.7	8	2.9	9	22.0	123.0	2700	29.1	640	46.4	1000	96.8	2100
2	3.4	2.4	8	2.4	8	4.1	14	20.1	68	40.0	106.0	4200	42.9	1700	39.2	1600	45.6	1800
3	5.0	5.5	28	5.1	26	3.8	19	1.3	7	43.0	93.5	4000	54.0	2300	64.0	2800	61.2	2600
4	2.1	5.8	12	1.3	3	1.4	3	1.5	3	40.0	265.1	17800	120.8	8100	77.1	3100	62.6	2500
5	2.1	6.5	14	3.3	7	1.9	4	1.0	2	27.0					69.9	1900	42.3	1100
6	5.6	6.3	35	9.7	54	3.9	22	1.5	8	68.0	83.7	5700	68.9	4700	27.5	1900	39.4	2700
7	6.6	1.1	7	13.2	87	2.7	18	1.6	11	90.0	106.5	9600	121.2	10900	38.6	3500	61.2	5500
8	2.3	1.2	3	2.1	5	2.5	6	1.9	4	44.0	383.7	16900	92.2	4100	41.5	1800	30.3	1300
9	1.4	1.9	3	1.3	2	2.6	4	0.5	1	43.0	146.4	6300	45.3	1900	23.1	1000	8.4	400
10	8.4	8.1	68	1.8	15	10.0	84	2.2	18	18.0	67.6	1200	5.3	200	31.2	600	7.2	100
SUM INDEX			206		216		182		131			68400		35400		19200		20100

Table 2. Estimates of abundance (thousand tonnes) and main contributors of small pelagic fish and demersal fish within each sub-area. The estimates are calculated from the abundance indices in Table 1 applying a conversion factor, C, equal to .

SUB-AREA		SMALL PELAGIC FISH				DEMERSAL FISH
		SPRING		AUTUMN		SPRING		AUTUMN
1.	Somali coast 2°-5°N	196	Porcupine fish	63	Herring	56	Snappers, Groupers	63	Various
2.	Somali coast 5°-10°N	56	Porcupine fish, mackerel	56	Various	98	Groupers	476x
3.	North-east Somali coast	200	Sardinella	182	Sardinella scad	133	Scavengers, sharks	49	Scavengers
4.	North Somali coast	84xx	Various	21	Horse mack. (o-gr.)	21	Groupers	21	Ponyfish
5.	West Yemen coast	98	Sardinella, scad	49	Shad, scad	28	Various	14	Various
6.	East Yemen coast	245	Sardinella, Horse mackerel	378	Sardinella, Horse mack.	154	Ponyfish, shark	56	Catfish
7.	South-east Oman coast	49	Sardinella, Anchovy	609	Sardinella	126	Ponyfish	77	Threadfin bream
8.	Gulf of Oman	21	Horse mackerel	35	Scad	42	Threadfin bream	28	Threadfin bream
9.	West Pakistan coast	21	Various	14	Anchovy, scad	28	Catfish, Croaker	7	Catfish, Croaker
10.	South Pakistan coast	476	Anchovy, sardine	105		588		126
TOTAL WEIGHT		1446		1512		1274		917

x Not identified due to bad weather
xx Including a large portion of mesopelagic fish

		SPRING				AUTUMN
		Pelagic trawl		Bottom trawl		Pelagic trawl		Bottom trawl
1.	Somali coast 2°-5°N	0.4	Porcupine	0.3	Snapper	-		-
2.	Somali coast 5°-10°N	0.5	Porcupine	1.3	Mackerel	-		0.8	Scavenger
3.	North-east Somali coast	5.4	Porcupine	0.4	Boarfish	0.5	Sardinella	1.0	Scad
4.	North Somali coast	-		0.8	Lizard fish	-		2.2	Golden toothless trevally
5.	West Yemen coast	0.1	Scad	-		0.6	Shad	0.5	Lizard fish
6.	East Yemen coast	0.6	Horse mackerel	6.6	Horse mackerel	2.9	Catfish	4.6	Palinurichthys sp.
7.	South-east Oman coast	-		1.9	Ponyfish	8.0	Threadfin bream	8.0	Threadfin bream
8.	Gulf of Oman	-		0.7	Scavenger	-		0.8	Crevalle
9.	West Pakistan coast	-		1.2	Croaker	-		-
10.	South Pakistan coast	0.5	Anchovy	1.9	Malabar cavalla	1.5	Scad	7.0	Anchovy, catfish

Table 4. Maximum catch rates (tonnes/hour trawling) and dominating species of mesopelagic fish caught in pelagic trawl.

SUB-AREA		SPRING		AUTUMN
1.	Somali coast 2°-5°N	-		-
2.	Somali coast 5°-10°N	0.1	Lantern fish	-
3.	North-east Somali coast	0.5	Lantern fish	-
4.	North Somali coast	4.5	Cardinal fish	0.8	Cardinal fish
5.	West Yemen coast	0.1	Lantern fish	9.8	Lantern fish
6.	East Yemen coast	1.5	Cardinal fish	-
7.	South-east Oman coast	0.2	Lantern fish	3.0	Lantern fish
8.	Gulf of Oman	0.2	Lantern fish	1.2	Lantern fish
9.	West Pakistan coast	-		-
10.	South Pakistan coast	-		0.1	Lantern fish

Fig. 1. The survey area. Sub-areas are indicated.

Fig. 2. The distribution of small pelagic fish. 1) Very scattered, 2) scattered, 3) dense. The survey area is indicated. (A)

Fig. 2. The distribution of small pelagic fish. 1) Very scattered, 2) scattered, 3) dense. The survey area is indicated. (B)

Fig. 3. The distribution of mesopelagic fish. 1) Very scattered, 2) scattered, 3) dense. (A)

Fig. 3. The distribution of mesopelagic fish. 1) Very scattered, 2) scattered, 3) dense. (B)

Fig. 4 The distribution of small pelagic fish in spring.

A) North-east Somali coast

B) west coast of Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen.

Fig. 5. The distribution of small pelagic fish in autumn at the north-east Somali coast. A) 20 August - 2 September, B) 2 - 5 October.

Fig. 6. The distribution of small pelagic fish at the east coast of Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen during spring. 1) Scattered, 2) dense.

Fig. 7. The distribution of small pelagic fish at the east coast of Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen during autumn. 1) Scattered, 2) dense.

Fig. 8. The distribution of small pelagic fish, A, and demersal fish, B, at the south-east coast of Oman in autumn. 1) Scattered, 2) dense.

Fig. 9. The distribution of small pelagic fish off the south coast of Pakistan in spring. 1) Scattered, 2) dense.