MACDONALD ET AL.: FISH ASSEMBLAGES AND THEIR SEASONAL MOVEMENTS 



The Atlantic tomcod, Microgadus tomcod, was a summer (Fig. 5) and in estuaries in early winter 

 regular component of the inshore assemblage and (Table 3). 



was particularly abundant at beach sites during early Clupeids and osmerids made up a major portion of 



Table 4.— Catch of fishes at intertidal seining station 3 (Brandy Cove) during period May 1976-November 1977. Fish captured during 



three 5-min seine hauls (100 X 15 m) (|j] = juvenile; [1| = larvae). 



Species 



1976 



1977 



15/05 14/06 13/07 18/08 15/09 10/10 08/12 15/02 20/03 10/04 30/05 29/06 15/07 18/09 10/10 17/11 



fla/a radiata [j] 



R. ennacea [j] 



Alosa pseudoharengus 



Clupea harengus 



Salmo salar [j] 



Osmerus mordax 



Fundulus heteroclftus 



Gasterosteus aculeatus 



G wheatlandi 



Enchelyopus cimbnus [I] 



Gadus morhua [j] 



Microgadus tomcod 



Pollachius virens [|| 



Urophycis tenuis [)) 



Scomber scombrus 



Pho/is gunnel/us 



Cyctopterus lumpus 



Myoxocephalus aeneus 



M scorpius [|] 



M octodecemspinosus [j] 



Hemitnpterus amencanus 



Pseudopleuronectes amencanus 



Liopsetta putnami 



Memdia menidia 



25 



— 5 



51 

 1 



1 

 115 



2 3 — 



132 15 12 



1 2 — 



- - -observed never captured - 

 — 1 2 — — 



3 



1 



10 



2 — 



2 — — 



— — 15 



3 1 



4 1 



300 

 200 

 100 



.2 o 



I 150 



■o 100 



1000 ^.eso 



Clup»a harengus 



harengus 



~^*J — I — l^^n 



L 



i-A +C means 



3-B means 

 -A + C no catch 

 -B no catch 



-P-P-r-i'M-P-^T* ' i i | i^ I i i*t*P^*i»* \ j * i^ 



600r> g600 



< 



50 



Merlucclus bilinear!* 



, , | ,lif , a- a ^A-^+ 



I I I I ' M I I l*f 



1200 700 



I I 



t-| " i  "  M < A rt l[*4- 



40 



20 



Squalus acanthlas 



 i   



J AODFAJ A0DFAJ AOD|FAJ AOD|FAJ A0D|FAJ 

 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 



Winter 



FIGURE 10.— Seasonal occurrence and abundance of pelagic fishes and dogfish at offshore stations in the Bay of Fundy 



and Passamaquoddy Bay, 1976-81. 



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