Collect juvenile herring, juvenile white perch and mummichogs from Oyster Pond for the mercury study. Herring, juvenile white perch and mummichogs will be sampled between the culvert at Surf Drive and the weir. Some specimens of herring were collected from Trunk River, just upstream of the bike path bridge.
Location
Oyster Pond, Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary
Successful fish collections were made during the evenings of September 16 (3 white perch, 50 mummichogs); Sept. 19 (4 white perch); Sept. 25 (14 juvenile herring, 8 juvenile white perch, 12 mummichogs); Sept. 28 (1 post spawn adult herring, 1 juvenile herring from the Trunk River just above bike path bridge); Sept. 29 (3 juvenile herring south of weir); October 16, 2008 (16 juvenile herring, 3 juvenile white perch from just south of weir, collected in the afternoon).
Info derived
Samples and chemical analysis;
Comments
Project = Coastal Geological Processes and Long-Term, Coastal Geological Processes and Long-Term
75 fish samples: of the 115 fish caught (34 juvenile herring, 1 adult post-spawn herring, 18 white perch, and 62 mummichogs), 75 were kept for analysis.
