DATE: Wednesday, October 8, 1997            TAG: 9710080598

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B2   EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA 

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CLARIFICATION

In 1996, the National Fisheries Institute estimated that sports fishermen caught a total of 700,000 offshore migratory fish - including tuna, wahoo, sharks, marlin and dolphin fish along the Atlantic Seaboard. During the same period, in the same area, officials estimate that commercial watermen caught a total of 200,000 offshore fish.

An article in the North Carolina edition of the Oct. 5 Virginian-Pilot incorrectly reported the figures referring to billfish.

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