Narragansett Bay Fish Trawl
The University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography Fish Trawl Survey is a state funded survey of the bottom fish and invertebrate community in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. The survey was initiated in 1959 by Charles J. Fish, founder and director of the Narragansett Marine Laboratory, the precursor to the Graduate School of Oceanography. The Fish Trawl Survey was developed to quantify the seasonal occurrences of migratory fish populations, whereas scientists had previously relied on anecdotal information.
The graphs below shows the abundance by year of the most commonly found fish in the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography Fish Trawl Survey, along with the surface water temperature deviation from the seasonally-adjusted average.
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Alewife and Fourspot Flounder populations at Fox Island across the time series from 1959 to 2018Cancer Crab and Atlantic Herring populations across sites from 1999 to 2005Where are these trawls?
About this Dataset
The data available on this site has been compiled from the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography Fish Trawl Survey. To cite this data, see Fish Trawl Data Page