The Rutgers University Marine Field Station (RUMFS) is a field facility of the Rutgers University Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (DMCS). It is a working lab with on-going graduate and postdoctoral level research occurring year-round. RUMFS is uniquely situated, across from the Little Egg Inlet in the Mullica River-Great Bay estuary: one of the most pristine estuaries on the east coast.
Long-term collections of planktonic fish larval and settled juveniles are important for the detection of trends that are too subtle to be seen in short-term experiments. Last week, we collected a juvenile Bandtail Puffer (Sphoeroides spengleri) in traps sampled twice-weekly over the last 34 years. Over the entire series, we...
