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Table 3. Total weight of each year’s TIP samples of white grunt and of all grunts within each region. The<br />

percentage of the total grunt biomass in each year’s sample that were white grunt was averaged to give an estimate<br />

of the annual weight contribution of white grunt to the MFS’ ‘grunts’ category.<br />

Nassau-Brevard counties<br />

1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998<br />

White grunt 0 0 0 0 0 1.89<br />

Annual<br />

average<br />

Total grunts 2.00 8.92 56.76 37.51 21.36 39.12<br />

Percentage<br />

white grunt<br />

0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 4.84% 0.81%<br />

Indian River – Martin counties<br />

1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998<br />

White grunt 0 0 0 0 0 2.46 8.31<br />

Annual<br />

average<br />

Total grunts 53.20 12.35 71.14 1.76 3.30 72.34 301.18<br />

Proportion<br />

white grunt<br />

0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 3.40% 2.76% 0.88%<br />

Palm Beach – Dade counties<br />

1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998<br />

White grunt 0 0<br />

Annual<br />

average<br />

Total grunts 5.08 1.59<br />

Proportion<br />

white grunt<br />

0.00% 0.00% 0.00%<br />

Monroe – Collier counties<br />

1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998<br />

White grunt 2.47 68.56 0 6.89 42.13 0 1.56<br />

Annual<br />

average<br />

Total grunts 2.47 91.03 88.30 103.95 215.61 184.60 259.80<br />

Proportion<br />

white grunt<br />

100.00% 75.32% 0.00% 6.63% 19.54% 0.00% 0.60% 28.87%<br />

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