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Figure 3 
(A) Correspondence analysis ordination plots, showing the scores and variance 
explained for the first and second dimensions (CA1 and CA2), of the sampling 
stations at 3 wind energy areas, Rhode Island-Massachusetts and Massachu¬ 
setts (RIMA-MA), New York (NY), and New Jersey (NJ), by using fish and macro¬ 
invertebrate taxa that occurred in at least 10% of the collections made in 2014. 
Beam trawl is represented by a solid symbol and bottom trawl by an open symbol. 
The size of the symbols are scaled to the contribution of each taxon to the ordina¬ 
tion and are shown by taxon classification for (B) average proportion of a taxon 
per station and (C) average individual weight of a taxon per station. Taxa that 
contributed more than 1% to the ordination are labeled (For names of taxa, see 
Table 1). 
within the RIMA-MA WEA (Fig. 5A). The stations of 
the RIMA-MA WEA separated along the second dimen¬ 
sion (Fig. 5A), and both the average proportion of taxa 
per station (47.5%) and average individual weights of 
taxa per station (52.5%) contributed to the variation in 
assemblage structure (Fig. 5, B and C). Stations in the 
upper right quadrant (Fig. 5A) had higher proportions 
of scup and haddock (Fig. 5B), and larger individuals 
of numerous taxa, such as scup, sea raven, spotted 
hake, fourspot flounder (Paralichthys oblongus ), black 
sea bass (Centropristis striata), and summer flounder 
(Fig. 5C). The other assemblage (in the lower right 
quadrant) had higher proportions of Leucoraja spp., 
Atlantic herring, and Alosa spp. (Fig. 5B), and larger 
individuals of longhorn sculpin, ocean pout, yellowtail 
flounder, winter flounder, and Leucoraja spp. (Fig. 50. 
