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The Peninsula Seining Project with the Center for Inland Bays
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The Peninsula is proud to participate in the Seining Project with the Center for Inland Bays...
What is Seining & Why is it important? Fish populations of the inshore areas of the Inland Bays have never been monitored on a long term basis. Seine sampling of Indian River, Rehoboth and Little Assawoman bays will be conducted to monitor the fish populations as indicators of the health of the Bays. Abundance indices will be generated for each species at the each sampling site and the bays, overall. Monitoring the year to year variation in these indices will enable evaluation of population trends of the species and their health in the bays. Inshore areas will be sampled with 30ft long and 4ft high seine nets pulled parallel to the shore by two persons. Fish will be contained in the bag located in the center of the net. They will be removed, identified, counted and measured. The information will be recorded along with water chemistry data. Any fishes which can’t be positively identified will be brought back to the Center for Inland Bays for collaborative identification. The Inland bays will be divided into three sampling areas, Indian River/Rehoboth north side, Indian River/Rehoboth south and Little Assawoman Bay. | |||
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