Table 5. Summary of Niantic River post-larval juvenile winter flounder studies from 1976 through 

 1985.'' 



.Juvenile (^15 cm) winter flounder abundance estimated by CPUE also available for 

 1976 through 1985 from adult winter flounder surveys in Niantic River and from trawl 

 monitoring program data. 



A quantitative study of post-larval young-of-the-year winter flounder in the Niantic River began in 

 1983 and has continued through the present. One of the four stations established then (LR) was sampled 

 in each year (Fig. 2). Station CO was sampled from 1983 through July 1984, when it was replaced by 

 WA because continued heavy accumulations of the alga Enteromorpha clathrata hampered sampling at the 

 former location. Stations SP and CH were used only in 1983 and were dropped because flounder were 

 less common there and catches more variable; data from these two stations will not be included in this 

 report. All stations contained habitat preferred by juvertile winter flounder, with sandy to muddy bottoms 



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