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Estuarine Living Marine Resources: North Atlantic Regional Distribution and Abundance (NCEI Accession 0162402)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 26, 2026 | Last Modified: 2017-04-28T00:00:00.000+00:00
This is the North Atlantic regional component of NOAA’s Estuarine Living Marine Resources (ELMR) Project, a national database of ecologically and economically important fishes and invertebrates in the Nation's estuaries. The distribution and relative abundance are depicted in a consistent format for 58 species of fishes and invertebrates, in 17 estuaries in coastal Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts (north of Cape Cod). Species were selected according to a set of criteria, which consider their commercial, recreational, and ecological value, as well as their utility as an indicator of environmental stress. For each species, five life stages are considered - adults, juveniles, larvae, spawning, and eggs - with some exceptions based on individual species life history. Each estuary is subdivided into one to three salinity zones (Tidal Fresh, Mixing, and Seawater). Relative abundance was ranked on a five-tier scale by month for each life stage of each species, in each salinity zone of each estuary. Details of the methods for the North Atlantic ELMR component can be found in Jury et al. (1994) and Nelson and Monaco (2000).

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0162402 biological data Fish FISH CENSUS FISH SPECIES INVERTEBRATE SPECIES species abundance biological model output NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS > National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce NCCOS Project No. 107: Estuarine Species Database for the NOAA Estuarine Living Marine Resources Program EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH Marine Spatial Ecology > Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments Derived Data Product Models/Analysis > Data Analysis > Environmental Modeling OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MAINE Geographic Area > Estuaries Marine Protected Area > National Estuarine Research Reserves Marine Protected Area > National Parks Region > East Coast U.S. States and Territories > Maine U.S. States and Territories > Massachusetts U.S. States and Territories > New Hampshire Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area Cape Cod National Seashore Fire Island National Seashore Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Gulf of Maine New England U.S. North Atlantic Estuaries Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve RBG3EH

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issued 2017-04-20T00:00:00.000+00:00
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temporal 1990-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/2000-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
title Estuarine Living Marine Resources: North Atlantic Regional Distribution and Abundance (NCEI Accession 0162402)

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