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The only previous survey of shore-zone fishes in New Haven 

 Harbor is provided by Warfel and Merriman (1944) , and that was confined 

 to Morris Cove. No historical data are available on demersal and pela- 

 gic species in the harbor. Recent data (including abundances, distri- 

 bution, and size) on these populations in the harbor were collected as 

 part of baseline and monitoring programs for the Harbor (Raytheon, 1970, 

 1971; NAI, 1971a, 1973, 1974a, 1974b, 1974c, 1974e, 1975a, 1976a, 1977a, 

 and 1978) . A fisheries study was conducted for the City of New Haven in 

 the harbor (NAI, 1975b). 



Contemporaneous fisheries studies providing information on 

 seasonal distributions and abundance were conducted at a number of sites 

 in the Sound. Along the northern shore of the Sound, data are available 

 from studies in Stamford and Bridgeport Harbors (NAI, 1974d and 1973b), 

 Niantic Bay (Battelle, 1977) and New London (Department of the Navy, 

 1977). Hillman et al . (1977) described shore-zone fishes at Niantic Bay 

 and their lack of response to a thermal discharge. Along the south 



shore of the Sound, comprehensive studies were conducted at Shoreham and 

 Northport power plant sites (NYOSL, 1973 and 1974; Zawacki and Briggs, 

 1976; and Perlmutter, 1971). These programs are not comparable in 

 terms of methods and equipment with those conducted on the north shore 

 of the Sound, but they do illustrate general population trends in Long 

 Island Sound. 



A number of programs evaluating impingement at power plants 

 provide some information on community composition and seasonal trends in 

 abundance. Data are available from the Thames Estuary (Montville Sta- 

 tion) , Connecticut River (Middletown Station) , Housatonic River (Devon 

 Station) and Norwalk Harbor (NUSCO, unpublished) ; Bridgeport and New 

 Haven Harbor (UI unpublished); Niantic Bay (Millstone Point) (Battelle, 

 1977, 1978); Northport, Port Jefferson, and Glenwoood, Long Island 

 (Equitable Environmental Health, 1977) . 



General life-history information from the Sound includes 

 studies on striped bass (Austin and Custer, 1977; Clark, 1968; Schaeffer 



