Document ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2002-0049-1837
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2004-03-10T05:00Z

Note:
Species
densities
are
per
square
meter
and
are
collected
from
an
undisturbed
salt
marsh
at
the
Narragansett
Estuarine
Research
Reserve
on
Prudence
Island,
RI.
data
incorporated
in
Sections
on
fish
abundance
in
tidal
wetlands
in
Pilgrim
and
Brayton
HRC
chapters
data
received
and
incorporated
in
reports
starts
in
row
16.

Direct
text
of
11/
19/
01
e­
mail
from
Kenny
Raposa
regarding
the
data
table
of
nekton
data
from
Coggeshall
marsh
on
Prudence
Island,
RI.
These
data
were
also
collected
with
a
1
m2
throw
trap
in
July
and
Sep
2000
from
salt
marsh
creeks
and
pools.

Species
July
2000
September
2000
Average
Palaemonetes
pugio
41.20
119.87
80.53
Lucania
parva
1.03
0.00
0.52
Fundulus
heteroclitus
13.40
27.83
20.62
Cyprinodon
variegatus
0.80
2.00
1.40
Pagarus
longicarpus
18.20
3.70
10.95
Crangon
septemspinosa
3.27
1.23
2.25
Fundulus
majalis
2.40
0.53
1.47
Menidia
menidia
0.17
0.07
0.12
Menidia
beryllina
0.60
0.87
0.73
Panopeus
herbstii
0.98
0.20
0.59
Carcinus
maenas
0.23
0.37
0.30
Anguilla
rostrata
0.33
0.37
0.35
Pseudopleuronectes
americanus
0.10
0.10
0.10
Callinectes
sapidus
0.13
0.00
0.07
Neopanopeus
sayi
0.09
0.03
0.06
Apeltes
quadracus
0.00
0.00
0.00
Total
nekton
82.93
157.17
120.05
File
contains
estimates
of
the
abundance
of
species
captured
in
sampling
efforts
within
the
tidal
wetlands
of
the
Coggeshall
marsh
on
Prudence
Island
in
the
Narragansett
Estuarine
Research
Reserve
in
July
and
September
2000.
Received
from
Kenny
Raposa
of
the
Narragansett
Estuarine
Research
Reserve,
2001.