TM 181 Table 2.3

Table 2.3. Substrate associations with five finfish aggregations on Stellwagen Bank, Gulf of Maine (Numerical data are mean number of fish per research vessel survey tow for 10 dominant species in each aggregation (Auster et al 2001).)

SUBSTRATE TYPE
Coarse		Wide Range		Fine
Species	Mean	Species	Mean	Species	Mean
Northern sand lance Atlantic herring Spiny dogfish Atlantic cod Longhorn sculpin American plaice Haddock Yellowtail flounder Silver hake Ocean pout No. tows = 83	1172.0 72.2 38.4 37.4 29.7 28.0 25.7 20.2 7.5 9.0	American plaice Northern sand lance Atlantic herring Silver hake Acadian redfish Atlantic cod Longhorn sculpin Haddock Pollock Red hake No. tows = 159	63.3 53.0 28.5 22.4 16.0 14.0 9.5 9.1 7.9 6.2	American plaice Acadian redfish Silver hake Atlantic herring Red hake Witch flounder Atlantic cod Haddock Longhorn sculpin Daubed shanney No. tows = 66	152.0 31.3 29.5 28.0 26.1 23.8 13.1 12.7 12.5 11.4
Haddock Atlantic cod American plaice Silver hake Longhorn sculpin Yellowtail flounder Spiny dogfish Acadian redfish Ocean pout Alewife No. tows = 60	13.1 7.3 5.3 3.3 2.0 1.9 1.6 1.6 1.3 1.1			Silver hake American plaice Atlantic mackerel Pollock Alewife Atlantic herring Atlantic cod Longhorn sculpin Red hake Haddock No. tows = 20	275.0 97.1 42.0 41.1 37.2 32.0 18.1 16.8 15.2 13.2