TABLE 16. Estimated larval winter flounder growth rates in Niantic Bay from data collect at sta- 

 tion EN based on linear regression, with r values, of weekly mean length and mean water tempera- 

 ture during the first 40 days of the time period. 



^ime period of the weekly mean lengths used to estimate growth rate 

 Mean during a 40-day period starting at the beginning of the week that the first weekly mean 

 length used in estimating the growth rate. 



0.10 



0.09 



^ 0,08 



f 0.07 



o 

 o 



0.06i 



0.05 -i 



4.5 



GR = 0.1818 - 0.0508 TEMP + 0,0051 TEMP 



R ^ = 0,85 



5,0 



5,5 



6,0 6.5 7,0 



MEAN WATER TEMPERATURE 



7.5 



8,0 



Fig. 29. Relationship between mean water temperature and estimated grovrth rates of entrained winter 

 flounder larvae from 1976 through 1987 with the fitted quadratic polynomial regression line. 



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