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the Long Island Lighting Company at Northport, Port Jefferson, Shoreham 

 and Jamesport. Baseline and preoperational studies, conducted during 

 1973 and 1974, included work on zooplankton at Shoreham (NYOSL, 1974) 

 and ichthyoplankton studies at Shoreham (NYOSL, 1974) , Jfimesport 

 (Austin, 1974b) and at Northport (Williams, 1971; Austin, Dickerson and 

 Hickey, 1974). Baseline and preoperational phytoplankton data are avail- 

 able from Jamesport (Nuzzi, 1975) and Shoreham (NYOSL, 1974) , respect- 

 ively. Later ichthyoplankton studies were conducted at Port Jefferson, 

 Northport and Glenwood (EEH, 1977a, b, c) . Data are also available for 

 the tidal reaches of the Mill River (NAI, 1974e) . 



In the western region of the Sound the National Marine Fish- 

 eries Service (1971, unpublished) conducted a small sampling program. 

 Further studies in the western Sound include inshore programs at Stam- 

 ford for ichthyo-, zoo-, and phytoplankton diversity (NAI, 1974c), 

 general plankton populations in western Sound waters (NYOSL, 1974) , 

 western Sound copepod populations (NYOSL, 1974) , and vertical distribu- 

 tion of winter zooplankton populations (Caplan, 1976) . The Corps of 

 Engineers also conducted an extensive study of planktonic populations in 

 the immediate vicinity of the mid-Sound Eatons Neck dredge spoil dis- 

 posal site (Caplan, 1977; Nuzzi, 1977) . 



In the eastern Sound, preoperational and operational plankton 

 studies investigating seasonal distributions of zooplankton and phyto- 

 plankton and diurnal studies on ichthyoplankton were conducted at 

 Niantic Bay by Battelle (1977, 1978). 



FINFISH 



New Haven Harbor and Long Island Sound support an abundant and 

 diverse ichthyofauna. Considerable information is available concerning 

 habits, general distribution, and ecology of many of the species common 

 to the Sound (Project Oceanology, 1977) . However, relatively little 

 information is available concerning seasonal abundances and degree of 

 utilization of New Haven and other Long Island Sound estuaries. 



