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The wind driven transports along the east coast and in the Gulf 

 of Mexico were discussed by Ingham (Paper 12). In February-March 

 the transports were anomalously strong to the southeast along the 

 U.S. east coast. During Novembe r-De cembe rr anomalously strong 

 southwest transports persisted. In the Gulf of Mexico/ 

 anomalously strong northwest transports persisted from October 

 through Decemoer. Onshore wind-driven transport is extremely 

 important to survival of Atlantic menhaden larvae. 



Gunn (Paper 18) mapped the annual march of t 

 wlater front along several transects off the 

 front in 1976 was significantly more variabl 

 1975. The energetic state of the front m 

 state (extreme wave patterns) of the atmosph 

 cold winter. Deaver (Paper 13) present 

 temperature along the east coast from Fieri 

 data set/ obtained from airborne radiation 

 the early spring and cold autumn of 197 

 presented the changes in water column ther 

 Jersey. The early spring of 1976 was also e 

 set. The nearshore surface salinities wer 

 SDring/ and a relatively fresh surface layer 

 beyond the Shelf Water/Slope Water front, 

 early spring runoff shown by Haynes in Rape 

 distributions of Shelf Water and Slope Wate 

 overwinter survival of Atlantic herring 

 salinities due to high runoff/ with asso 

 unfavorable to shellfish. 



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Smith and Jossi (Paper 20) discussed variations in plankton 

 populations in the Middle Atlantic Bight by season and water 

 mass/ and also in a warm core r-ulf Stream eddy. Named species 

 may be considered as water mass indicators. Armstrong (Paper 17) 

 discussed the anoxic bottom conditions off New Jersey. This was 



