Table 2. 
Relative abundance of larval fishes collected 
Delaware II 71-4 
Albatross IV 72-9 
Average Average z 
Taxon Rank Dominance* Abundance? Frequency* Taxon Rank Dominance Abundance Frequency 
Silver 0.1-384.8 Atlantic 0.1-107.2 
hake 5.62 44/122 (192.4) 72/122 herring 6.12 54/127 (53.6) 73/127 
Red 0.1-247.2 Atlantic 0.2-35.5 
hake 4.96 17/122 (123.6) 59/122 cod 4.02 11/127 (17.8) 22/127 
Atlantic 0.1-625.3 Silver 0.2-5.1 
herring Soh 17/122 (312.7) 29/122 hake 3.84 7/127 (2.6) 19/127 
¢ 0.1-54.9 0.1-4.5 
Windowpane 3.65 1/122 (27.5) 33/122 Paralepididae 3.54 7/127 (2.3) 11/127 
? 0.1-112.9 0.2-3.9 
Myctophidae 3.46 10/122 (56.5) 22/122 Myctophidae 3.53 3/127 (1.5) 12/127 
; 0.1-11.9 0.3-7.6 
Butterfish 3.36 1/122 (6.0) 25/122 Pollock 3/103) 4/127 (3.8) 12/127 
Gulf Stream 0.1-54.7 Red 0.1-0.9 
flounder 3.21 0 (27,4) 20/122 hake 3.43 0 U/127 
Albatross IV 71-7 Albatross IV 73-9 
Atlantic 0.1-76.5 Atlantic 0.1-338.4 
herring 2.70 58/148 (38.3) 59/148 herring 5.34 57/113 (169.2) 81/113 
, 0.1-4.4 Atlantic 0.1-45.5 
Myctophidae Ve75 14/148 (2.2) 14/148 cod 3.89 14/113 (22.8) 45/113 
0.8-10.5 0.1-10.0 
Pollock 55) 1/148 (5.6) 5/148 Myctophidae 3.11 11/113 (5.0) 19/113 
Silver 0.1-6.7 
hake 3.02 4/113 (3.4) 15/113 
Red 0.1-2.9 
hake 2.91 0 (1.5) 16/113 
0.1-10.4 
Pollock 2.73 4/113 (5.2) 7/113 
lTaxa were ranked within each sample on a basis of numbers of individuals. 
Ranks for each species were averaged over the total samples. 
“Proportion of samples in which taxon 
of the individuals. 
3Range and median (in parentheses) of 
in samples in which taxon was found. 
‘Proportion of total samples in which 
taxon was found. 
was among those making up 50% 
number of individuals per 100 m3 
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