Fishery bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service - NOAA

82 FISHERY BULLETIN OF THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
hauls yielded a much larger percentage of young forms from the surface layers than
did day hauls. Possibly the same condition might have occurred if night collections
had been made in Chesapeake Bay (table 2).
TABLE 1.—Seasonal distribution of young fishes in the plankton, Chesapeake Bay, 1929-80. Nearly all
fishes were taken in larval or early postlarval stages
Species
АМгиг /Mcioíu»
Anchoviella mitcÙÏU
Bairdielía chrysura
Ctntroprittu striatut
Cynoicion Ttçulit
ОоЫегох strumosut
Lopfíita piêcatoriu* . . _ -
Lojjhopíctla maculata . .
Afcnticirrhut amtricanus
Microgobiut thalaêslniu
Aficropoßon ttndiUatus
Paralichthye sp.
Peprílue alcpidotue . _ .
Poronotus triacanthus
Prionotut sp.
Synctet fufcus . -.
Tautoga ontffo .
April
1930
2
1
65
1929
May
1
9
13
5
2
7
6
6
1930
24
8
65
2
12
118
12
4
2
16
10
22
June
1929
79
6
1
2,468
13
18 6
117
30
82
138
3
26
58
1929
July
34
120 211
55
1,540
108 4
873
98
34
11
Í7
75
223 32
12
14
1930
11
1
2
268 1
23 2
47
73
9
2
4
32
63 2
l
4
3
August
1929
34
87
1
99 2
72
23
53
26
1
1
4
2
1930
45
44
5
1
29 2
26
4 1
11
1
1
September
1929
13
7 1
33
10 1
48
3
1
2
1930
1
19
31
W
1
12
26
8
1
8
1
October
1930
11
38
17
2
3
November
1930
TABLE 2.—The surface and subsurface distribution of planktonic fishes in Chesapeake Bay, expressed
as the percentage of hauls in which the various species occurred
[108 surface and 140 subsurface hauls wore made from May to October, 1929, and 111 surface and 168 subsurface hauls from April to
December, 1930, omitting June. No fishes were obtained In 24 surface hauls and 47 subsurface hauls made in January and
March, 1931]
Species
, .
AnchovicUa mitchiíU
Conger conger
Etroput sp.
Hippocamput hudeoniia
Percent of
hauls, 1929
Surface
3 5
2 1
12 3
10 42
17
Subsurface
14
18
1
4 16
40 98
246
43
Percent of
hauls, 1930
Surface
g
1
g
il 5i
17 7
Subsurface
3
12
1
2
1
g 1
6 72
16 5
Species
maraZotó
McntíclTThus ameriamut
Mícrogobiuê thalaiiinus
Paralíchthyf sp
Pomatomue sattatríx
Príonotut sp
Sphoeroidrt macutatut
Tautofja onítit
Percent of
hauls, 1929
Surface
1
4
8 1
б
12 31
1
7
б
10
Subsurface
1
22 13
16
25
16513
16
21 g
Percent of
hauls, 1930
Surface
20 63
5 11
2 31
2
12 9
Subsurface
1
1
3
22 462
12
2 1
10 42
1
11 8