Table 17. The Range in Number of Copepods per Cubic Meter Found by Various 

 Investigators in the Coastal Waters of the Middle Atlantic Area. 



Area 



Range of No. of 

 Copepods per m 



Net Aperture Size 



Reference 



Block Island Sound 



100 to 8,000 



No. 2 mesh net; 0.366 mm aperture 



Deevey, 1952 



Block Island Sound 



5,000 to 30,000 



No. 10 mesh net; 0.158 ram aperture 



Deevey, 1952 



Montauk, N.Y. to Bermuda 



100 to 1,000 



No. 2 mesh net; 0.36 mm aperture 



Grice and Hart, 1962 



Long Island Sound 



300 to 100,000 



Nos. 2 and 10 sUk nets 



Deevey, 1956 



Raritan Bay 



up to 200,000 



No. 12 mesh net; 0.119 mm aperture 



Jeffries, 1959 



Sandy Hook Bay 



50 to 600,000 



Hensen silk tow net 



Yamazi, 1962 



Patuxent River Estuary 



100 to 7,000 



No. 2 mesh net; 0.316 mm aperture 



Herman, et al., 1968 



Patuxent River Estuary 



1,500 to 100,000 



Nos. 10 and 20 mesh nets; 



0.158 mm and 0.076 mm apertures 



Heinle, 1966 



after SHL, 1972 



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