The ShiRP 2016 trawling season is almost over and we would like to thank all the great volunteers we have had this season. A special thanks goes to the Saint Joseph College and Stony Brook University Undergraduate students who volunteered their time this summer to help us on the boat.
This season we have tagged 50 summer flounder in Shinnecock Bay with acoustic transmitters as part of an ongoing study on their migratory patterns and factors controlling the timing of their migrations. We have also caught our first two sharks, smooth dogfishes, since our surveys started in 2011. In summary, this year, as always, we had a lot of fun!
Finally, we would like to extend a big thank you to our friends from Citimarine Store for their generous donation to the Shinnecock Restoration Program. The GPS they sent us came in really handy to track our trawl locations during our fish survey of the bay, and we plan to put it to good use on our future surveys.
