Field Activity Details for field activity 2008-027-FA

Other ID: W-27-08-MA

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Michael Bothner

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Michael Casso

Data Type(s): Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect adult post-spawn river herring leaving Oyster Pond via Trunk River for analysis of mercury.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Quissett Campus, Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Quissett Campus, Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2008-06-05

End Date: 2008-06-05

Equipment Used: Dip Nets

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Herring were not present in Trunk River during the time we were sampling. A few specimens of mummichogs and other small fish were collected. Since these other fish are not the main focus of the study, they will be analyzed only if time and manpower is available.

Staff: Michael Bothner

Affiliate Staff:
April Abbott and Jorge Barbosa
WHOI summer fellows

Notes: Herring migration out of Oyster Pond is not continuous. On this occasion we did not match the migration with our sampling effort.
Project = Coastal Geological Processes and Long-Term, Coastal Geological Processes and Long-Term

Location:

Oyster Pond, Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States, North America;

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