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World Science Festival Great NYC Fish Count Results
May 30, 2015
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SiteLemon Creek Park (tidal pond)Lemon Creek Park (beach)North Channel BridgeFloyd Bennett FieldKaiser ParkValentino PierBrooklyn Bridge ParkEast River ParkRandall's Island ParkHudson River Park Pier 40Hudson River Park Pier 84Ft. Washington ParkInwood Hill ParkBloomers BeachHabirshaw ParkTotals
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HostNYC Dept of ParksNYC Dept of ParksJamaica Bay National Wildlife RefugeGateway National Recreation AreaNYC Dept of ParksNYC Dept of ParksNYC Dept of ParksNYC Dept of ParksRandall's Island Park AllianceHudson River Park TrustHudson River Park TrustNYC Dept of ParksNYC Dept of ParksPalisades Interstate ParkSarah Lawrence Ctr for the Urban River
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Organization leading programHudson Estuary Program staffHudson Estuary Program staffAmerican Littoral Society, NE ChapterGateway National Recreation AreaNYSMEAHudson Estuary Program staffBrooklyn Bridge Park ConservancyLower East Side Ecology CtrHudson Estuary Program staffThe River ProjectHudson River Park TrustLamont-Doherty Earth ObservatoryLamont-Doherty Earth ObservatoryPeter Park, Nyack CollegeSarah Lawrence Ctr for the Urban River
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City/TownStaten IslandStaten IslandQueensBrooklynBrooklynBrooklynBrooklynManhattanManhattanManhattanManhattanManhattanManhattanEnglewood NJYonkers
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CountyRichmondRichmondQueensKingsKingsKingsKingsNew YorkNew YorkNew YorkNew YorkNew YorkNew YorkBergenWestchester
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Participants407129841594240357757533340634
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Habitattidal pondbeachbeachbeachbeachbeachbeachbulkheadsalt marshpierpierbeachtidal pondbeachbeach
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Water Temp (oF)84777263686871.671.182.4
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Salinity (ppt)2724262422221210145
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DO ppm9461110610
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American eel189
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alewife11
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bay anchovy251136
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Atlantic tomcod22
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mummichog3094310511079
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striped killifish6011466
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Atlantic silverside1030787815202
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fourspine stickleback 2020
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threespine stickleback336
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northern pipefish11114
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white perch23510
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striped bass213011742
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bluefish11
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summer flounder213
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winter flounder10212
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windowpane22
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hogchoker11
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TOTAL 1225783108362098410510516221496
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lion's mane jelly11
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moon jelly22
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Atlantic horseshoe crab1113
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hermit crab5026260
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green crab213
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blue crab51181017657
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lady/calico crab6212222
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Asian shore crab11
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mud crab437
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fiddler crabmany0
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shrimp5014160838618213183
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NotesWe seined generally adjacent to the tidal pond and at Seguine point.

Note for BOTH Lemon Creek entries: the numbers here represented the max estimated to come up in any one haul. For example, we caught may more mummichogs and killifish than listed here, but the numbers here are an estimate of the biggest haul of that particular species.

The bluefish listed above was dead and highly decomposed. 		As tide fell in the early afternoon, mummichogs and other fish became concentrated in the shallows under the footbridge where the salt marsh creek met a shallow bay of the Harlem River. Our 943 killifish were netted in two hauls of the seine then. The tomcod were a bit of a surprise; these young of the year fish, no more than 2 inches long, most likely were hatched in the freshwater Hudson in late winter, perhaps as far north as Poughkeepsie, and had already made it downriver to this site.
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