Figure ]. rransect Locations foi Potoma< Estuary striped I). is;, study, 1974- 



1977 Each transect consisted oi from 2 to 6 Lchthyoplankton stations which 



tmpled weekl; from .April through mid- Inn'- with an oblique tow using a 



I -m, 505 ii esh plankton net. Shore stations from transects i to 10 were 



seim I k ! y for juvenile striped bass during the summers of 1975 and 

 19 6. Adult spawning stocks were sampled weekly from mid-March through mid- 

 la i'Ii gil] nets deployed near transects 1 (1974 only), 6, 8 and ( >. The 

 Lnserl shows the Location oi the Potomac Estuary within Chesapeake Bay. Other 

 hi. i i"i striped bass spawning an is within the Bay include the uppei Bay, the 



Choptank and Man ke Rivers on Maryland's Eastern Shore and the James, York 



and Rapp ihannock Rivers in Virginia . 



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