Forage Indicators and Consumption Profiles for Chesapeake Bay Fishes
This report summarizes efforts to develop a suite of indicators for forage groups and to quantify the magnitude of prey consumed by six predator fishes in the Chesapeake Bay.
Description
Understanding predator-prey relationships and the status of the forage base is important to develop ecosystem approaches to fisheries management. This report summarizes efforts to analyze data and synthesize results from eight existing (or historical) monitoring programs to assess trends in the Chesapeake Bay forage base using a combination of complimentary indicators and approaches. The first objective of this initiative was to develop indicators for 14 dominant forage groups. The second was to develop consumption profiles to quantify the relative, Bay-wide magnitude of prey consumed by six biomass-dominant predator fishes in the Bay.
Category: Report