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Ecology and Vulnerability Forage Fish

Map displays the estimated presence and absence of Scup, Sandlance, Butterfish, Menhaden, American Shad, and Rainbow Smelt during the 1978-2016 Spring (green) and Fall (blue) Resource Trawling Surveys. Categories are based on the aggregation behavior of the species. Data provide by Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.

Butterfish, Sandlance, and Rainbow Smelt: Absent=0; Low=1-25; Medium=26-100; High=101-500; and Very High=501-18626 (maximum for Butterfish and Rainbow Smelt) or 501-107083 (maximum for Sandlance).

Scup and Menhaden: Absent=0; Low=1-25; Medium=26-100; High=101-1000; and Very High=1001-1121 (maximum for Menhaden) or 1001-61925 (maximum for Scup).

American Shad: Absent=0; Low=1-25; Medium=25-100; and High=101-318 (maximum).

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Ecology and Vulnerability
Forage Fish

Photo credit: Michelle Staudinger, DOI NE CSC

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