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Table 3. — Mean larval fish catches per 10 rr? for day, night, and twilight made off the 



significant differences. Numbers in parenthesis 



Taxa 



Day (D) 



Night (N) 



Brevoortia tyranus^ 



Atlantic menhaden 

 Clupea harengusF 



Atlantic herring 

 Ceratoscopelus maderensis^ 

 Benthosema glaciate 

 Lophius americanus 



Goosefish 

 Urophycis spp. 



hakes 

 Enchelyopus cimbrius 



Fourbeard reckling 

 Gadus morhua 



Atlantic cod 

 Melanogrammus aeglefinus^ 



Haddock 

 Pollachius virens^ 



Pollock 



Merluccius albidus 



Offshore hake 

 Merluccius bilinearis 



Silver hake 

 Centropristis striata'' 



Black seabass 

 Pomatomus saltatrix'' 



Bluefish 

 Cynoscion regalis'' 



Weakfish 

 Micropogonias undulatus' 



Atlantic croaker 

 Tautogotabrus adspersus 



Cunner 

 Tautoga onitus' 



Tautog 

 Lumpenus lumpretaeformis^ 



Snakeblenny 

 Ulvaria subbifurcatsP 



Radiated shanny 

 Pholis gunnelus 



Rock gunnel 

 Ammodytes spp. 



Sand lances 

 Auxis spp. 



Mackerels 

 Scomber scombrus 



Atlantic mackerel 

 Peprilus triacantlius 



Butterfjsh 

 Sebastes spp.^ 



Redfishes 

 Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus 



Longhorn sculpin 

 Citharicthys arctifron^ 



Gulf Stream flounder 

 Etropus microstomus' 



Smallmouth flounder 

 Paralichthys dentatu^ 



Summer flounder 

 Paralichthys oblongu^ 



Fourspot flounder 

 Scophthalmus aquosus^ 



Windowpane flounder 

 Hippoglossoides platessoides^ 



American plaice 



0.656(0.180,847) 



3.943(0.941,1314) 



0.982(0.181,1759) 

 1.725(0.305,2201) 

 0.621(0.052,2543) 



21.505(2.221,2668) 



0.694(0.073,2675) 



2.441(0.285,2813) 



6.250(1.031,1456) 



0.683(0.095,1961) 



1.289(0.216,1838) 



13.442(1.408,2514) 

 1.151(0.186,1274) 



16.212(2,814,931) 

 0.894(0.230,908) 

 5.083(2.144,893) 

 3.778(0.518,1363) 

 0.337(0.079,761) 

 0.500(0.145,700) 

 0.462(0.152,633) 

 0.405(0.085,1245) 



48.001(5.311,2267) 

 2.326(0.500,590) 



18.195(4.133,1284) 

 5.299(0.507,2566) 

 2.276(0.295,1541) 

 0.249(0.056,707) 



16.288(1.882,1970) 

 5.977(0.755,1658) 

 1.795(0.262,1458) 

 8.089(0.689,1691) 

 2.694(0.246,2174) 

 1.580(0.427,989) 



3.434(1.036,861) 



10.048(1.846,1589) 



5.652(0.925,1532) 

 2.066(0.329,1928) 

 0.488(0.053,1994) 



25.563(2.967,2294) 



0.838(0.103,2327) 



2.218(0.248,2685) 



4.838(1.058,1211) 



1.083(0.141,2044) 



1.662(0.315,1597) 



15.814(1.794,2239) 

 1.841(0.334,955) 



25.967(6.050,585) 

 1.515(0.487,695) 

 4.806(1.733,812) 

 8.557(1.528,966) 

 0.688(0.251,498) 

 0.250(0.070,581) 

 0.656(0.185,401) 

 0.564(0.090,1164) 

 125.737(15.608,2125) 

 7.549(1.838,397) 



35.886(10.866,772) 

 6.025(0.716,2019) 

 3.006(0.467,1169) 

 0.699(0.132,731) 



19.577(2.511,1620) 

 7.873(1.125,1339) 

 2.135(0.260,1554) 

 7.578(0.785,1324) 

 3.348(0.319,1864) 

 1 .268(0.276,700) 



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