ML072670416

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. No Date. Summary of Essential Fish Habitat Designations. Barnegat Bay, New Jersey

ML072670416
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Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	12/31/2006
From:	US Dept of Commerce, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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2130-07-20506, TAC MC7624
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Summary of Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Designations

ýQ-b A ---I a-Page I of 2 Summary of Essential Fish Habitat EFH _Designations Nami-e of-Estuary_/Bay/ River: Barnegat Bay, New Jersey 10' x 10' latitude and longitude squares included in this bay or estuary or river (southeast corner boundaries):

3950/7400; 3950/7410; 3940/7400; 3940/7410 SpeciesLarvae Juveniles Adults Spawnin Adults Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) j Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)

I haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)

I pollock (Pollachius virens) iC whiting (Merluccius bilinearis)

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offshore hake (Merluccius albidus)

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]I red hake (Urophycis chuss) white hake (Urophycis tenuis) redfish (Sebastesfasciatus) n/a witch flounder ( Glyptocephalus cynoglossus) winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus)

M,S M,S M,S M,S M,S yellowtail flounder (Pleuronectesferruginea) IL I

windowpane flounder (Scopthalmus aquosus)

M,S M,S M,S

]fM,S M,S American plaice (Hippoglossoides MS platessoides) ocean pout (Macrozoarces americanus)

C Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus)

Atlantic sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus)

Atlantic sea herring (Clupea harengus)

M,S M,S P,

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Sumnmary of Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Designations Page 2. of 2 monkfish (Lophius ainericanus) bluefish (Pomatoinus saltatrix)fMS 3MS I!_________

long finned squid (Loligo peaiei) n/a na

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short finned squid (Illex iliccebrosus)

[n/a na

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Atlantic butterfish (Peprilus triaca nt/ins)

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Atlantic mackerel (Scombler scoinbrus)[_____________[1 I___________

summer flounder (Paralicthys dentatus) 3IM,S M5 MS scup (Stenotomus chrvsops)

St black sea bass (Centropristus striata)

MS__3M,S surf clain (Spisula solidissimna) n/a n/a II ocean quahog (Artica islandica)

[n/a n/a spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) n/a n/a tilefish (Lopholatilus chamnaeleonticeps) king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)

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X Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus maculatus) x X X ft X

cobia (Rachycentron canadum)

X X

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