| meta key # | crab004 |
| dataset or series of data | Nearshore fish seine sampling |
| keywords | Rhode River, estuary, long-term monitoring, fish, spatial & temporal variation |
| originator | Hines, A. H. |
| file format | ascii text column format |
| platform | Windows |
| study site locale | Rhode River, Edgewater, Anne Arundel County, MD, USA |
| beginning date | 19800610 |
| ongoing? | yes |
| ending date | |
| meas. freq. | one time/year; June, July, August |
| site size | 33 m seine; 2 seines/site since 1990. 3 seines/site 1980-1989. |
| # of stations | 13 |
| west longitude | -76.55 |
| east longitude | -76.55 |
| north latitude | 38.87 |
| south latitude | 38.87 |
| parameters | Date, Seining station, Seine #, Species #, abundance number (# of each species/seine). Blue crabs & grass shrimp are codes, e.g., code 3=10-99 blue crabs or grass shrimp. |
| current sharing status | available to collaborators |
| current advertising status | scientific publications, lectures, SERC public site |
| abstract | Populations of nearshore fish in the Rhode River estuary of the Chesapeake Bay were sampled once per year in late June starting in 1980. |
| additional documentation / reference article | Hines, A. H. et al. 1987. Estuarine invertebrates and fish: sampling design and constraints for long-term measurements of population dynamics. New Approaches to Monitoring Ecosystems. ASTM ; ASTM. STP 940. T. P. Boyle, Ed., American Society for Testing and Materials. Philadelphia, pp. 140-164. |