Table 1 . ELMR Mid-Atlantic estuaries (n=22) and 

 their associated salinity zones. 



Table 2. ELMR Mid-Atlantic species (n=61) 



Common name 



Scientific name 



Estuary name, State(s) 



Zones present 



T - Tidal fresh zone 



M - Mixing zone 



S - Seawater zone 



* - salinity zone not present 



^The New Jersey Inland Bays systenn includes Little Egg 

 Harbor. Great Bay (Mullica River), Little Bay, Grassy Bay, 

 Reed Bay, Absecon Bay, Lakes Bay, Shelter Island Bay, 

 Scull Bay, Great Egg Harbor, Peck Bay, Ludlam Bay, 

 Townsend Sound, Stites Sound, Great Sound, Jenkins 

 Sound, Grassy Sound, Richardson Sound, Jarvis Sound, 

 and Cape May Harbor. 



" The Delaware Inland Bays system includes Rehoboth Bay, 

 Indian River Bay, and Little Assawoman Bay. 



Blue mussel 



Bay scallop 



American oyster 



Northern quahog 



Softshell clam 



Brown shrimp 



Daggerblade grass shrimp 



Sevenspine bay shrimp 



American lobster 



Blue crab 



Skates 



Atlantic stingray 



Cownose ray 



Shortnose sturgeon 



Atlantic sturgeon 



American eel 



Blueback herring 



Alewife 



American shad 



Atlantic menhaden 



Atlantic herring 



Bay anchovy 



Channel catfish 



Rainbow smelt 



Atlantic salmon 



Atlantic cod 



Haddock 



Atlantic tomcod 



Pollock 



Red hake 



Oyster toadfish 



Sheepshead minnow 



Killifishes 



Silversides 



Northern pipefish 



Northern searobin 



White perch 



Striped bass 



Black sea bass 



Yellow perch 



Bluefish 



Pinfish 



Scup 



Spotted seatrout 



Weakfish 



Spot 



Northern kingfish 



Atlantic croaker 



Black drum 



Red drum 



t\/!ullets 



Tautog 



Gunner 



American sand lance 



Gobies 



Atlantic mackerel 



Butterfish 



Summer flounder 



Windowpane flounder 



Winter flounder 



Hogchoker 



Mytilus edulis 

 Argopecten irradians 

 Crassostrea virginica 

 Mercenaria mercenaria 

 My a ar en aria 

 Penaeus aztecus 

 Palaemonetes pugio 

 Crangon septemspinosa 

 Homarus americanus 

 Callinectes sapidus 

 Raja species 

 Dasyatis sabina 

 Rhinoptera bonasus 

 Acipenser brevirostrum 

 Acipenser oxyrhynchus 

 Anguilla rostrata 

 Alosa aestivalis 

 Alosa pseudoharengus 

 Alosa sapidissima 

 Brevoortia tyrannus 

 Clupea harengus 

 Anchoa mitchilli 

 Ictalurus punctatus 

 Osmerus mordax 

 Salmo salar 

 Gadus morhua 

 Melanogrammus aeglefinus 

 Microgadus tomcod 

 Pollachius virens 

 Urophycis chuss 

 Opsanus tau 

 Cyprinodon variegatus 

 Fundulus species 

 Menidia species 

 Syngnathus fuscus 

 Prionotus carolinus 

 Morone americana 

 Morone saxatilis 

 Centropristis striata 

 Perca flavescens 

 Pomatomus saltatrix 

 Lagodon rhomboides 

 Stenotomus chrysops 

 Cynoscion nebulosus 

 Cynoscion regalis 

 Leiostomus xanthurus 

 Menticirrhus saxatilis 

 Micropogonias undulatus 

 Pogonias cromis 

 Sciaenops ocellatus 

 Mugll species 

 Tautoga onitis 

 Tautogolabrus adspersus 

 Ammodytes americanus 

 Gobiosoma species 

 Scomber scombrus 

 Peprilus triacanthus 

 Paralichthys dentatus 

 Scophthalmus aquosus 

 Pleuronectes americanus 

 Trinectes maculatus 



