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Houde Fisheries Research Laboratory |
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Indicators of Fish Community Status |
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Fish communities in estuaries and coastal ecosystems are stressed by fishing and other human activities. We evaluated the state of fish communities and developing indicators of status that depend on abundance, species diversity, young-of-the-year recruitment, and biomass size structure as part of a coastwide program (ACE INC) funded by the Environmental Protection Agency. We continue to develop biomass size spectra (BSS) and multivariate statistical models as indicators of fish community structure and its inter-annual and regional variability. Recent emphasis is on comparisons of BSS across spatial scales from subestuaries to estuary regions and between estuaries. |
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Representative Publication Jung, S. and E. D. Houde. 2005. Fish biomass size spectra in Chesapeake Bay. Estuaries 28:226-240. Related Links |