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Fish Distribution at varying salinities in Neuse River Basin, North Carolina

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Fish were collected from 18 Neuse River tributary stations that varied in salinity from freshwater to 12.25‰. More freshwater than salt-water species were collected in salinities of less than 3.50‰. Freshwater fishes outnumbered salt-water and brackish-water individuals up to salinities of 2.63‰. Freshwater game fishes were found in higher percentages in collections from stations with 1.75 to 3.50‰ salinities than in those from freshwater stations. Few freshwater fishes were found in salinities greater than 10.50‰. Freshwater game fishes were not abundant in salinities above 3.50‰.

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  1. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service Technical Advisory and Investigations Section, Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

    Lowell Keup

  2. North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Ayden, North Carolina

    Jack Bayless

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This study was partly financed and administered through Federal Aid in Fish Restoration, Project F-14-R, Job 1A.

Formerly with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.

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Keup, L., Bayless, J. Fish Distribution at varying salinities in Neuse River Basin, North Carolina. Chesapeake Science 5, 119–123 (1964). https://doi.org/10.2307/1351370

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