Re: NANFA-- MA Collecting Trip

Brian Bastarache (bast_at_ici.net)
Sun, 02 Jul 2000 22:23:43 -0400

This is a great saltmarsh in south Dartmouth, MA. The water is at least
quite brackish, I've never taken salinity readings there. Thick organic
mud bottom and saltmarsh cord grasses (Spartina sp.) up on the marsh. This
is one of the few sites we still find "decent" numbers of blue crabs. We
get spider crabs, grass shrimp, juvenile tautog, cunner, flounder, and of
course mummichogs. As the crow flys, that site probably isn't 1/8 of a
mile from the ocean (Buzzard's Bay).

We didn't have our best day at that site that day, but we made it up at
others.

Brian Bastarache

At 12:14 AM 7/2/00 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 7/1/00 2:38:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, newzoo_at_juno.com
>writes:
>
><< a drag of the seine in the
> Little River in Dartmouth. The little River has always turned up lot's
> of neat species. Though on this trip we only caught Mummichogs, Blue
> Crabs, and Spider Crabs. >>
>
>Rick,
>I've never heard of spider crabs being found in rivers before; was this in a
>brackish section closer to the ocean or was it a totally freshwater part?
>What other crabs in North America are found in freshwater?
>
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