(Station 10, May; stations 4 and 14, August) or surface 

 trash (station 15, September) (Appendix 1). 



Relative Abundance of Fish Eggs 



A total of 18,354 fish eggs were sorted from 119 samples 

 (Table 2). During the peak month of May, a tenfold dif- 

 ference in abundance was evident between the northern 



stations (averaging 2,072.2 eggs/10 m') and the southern 

 stations (averaging only 210.1 eggs/10 m^). Excep- 

 tionally high egg counts were obtained from the Taiya 

 (station 2) and Bemers Bay (station 6) samples. Excep- 

 tions to the May peak abundance were evident in 

 Saginaw Channel (station 10) and Farragut Bay (station 

 16), where maximum numbers occurred in July. The 

 1972 peak egg abundance in May contrasts to a previous 



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