EPA/620/R-96/004
                                                              September 1996
Assessment of the  Ecological Condition of the

      Delaware and Maryland  Coastal  Bays
                         J.C. Chaillou
                         S.B. Weisberg
                          Versar, Inc.
                      Columbia, MD 21045

                          F.W. Kutz
                         T.E. DeMoss
               U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                     Annapolis, MD 21401

                        L. Mangiaracina
               U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                          Region III
                     Philadelphia, PA 19107

                          R. Magnien
             Maryland Department of Natural Resources
                     Annapolis, MD 21401

                           R. Eskin
              Maryland Department of the Environment
                     Baltimore, MD 21224

                          J. Maxted
  Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
                       Dover, DE 19903

                           K. Price
                   College of Marine Sciences
                     University of Delaware
                       Lewes, DE 19958

                        J.K. Summers
               U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                  Gulf Breeze, FL 32561-5299
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                                 FOREWORD
This report, entitled Assessment of the Ecological Condition of the Delaware and Maryland Coastal
Bays, was funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under Contract No. 68-DO-0093 to
Versar, Inc.

Data requests should be submitted to Dr. R. Kutz at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region
III, Annapolis, MD.

Phone:(410)573-6842                                                            ;-
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                              TABLE OF  CONTENTS

 FOREWORD	    i
 TABLE OF CONTENTS	......"..."!..."."	m
 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY	.'.".'"".""."!Z!"Z""	v
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	IlZZZimZVii

 1.0 INTRODUCTION	 !
 1.1 THE COASTAL BAYS JOINT ASSESSMENT: BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE".	1
 1.2 OVERVIEW OF CBJA	.	2
 1.3 PURPOSE AND ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT	"""""'""""""""'"". 3

 2.0 METHODS	         5
 2.1 SAMPLING DESIGN	.	......1........1..1..1. 5
 2.2 SAMPLE COLLECTION	ZZ'ZZ 6
     2.2.1  Water Column	.,	.,	g
     2.2.2  Sediment and Benthic Macroinvertebrates	g
 2.3 SAMPLE PROCESSING METHODS	.......Z........... 8
     2.3.1  Water Chemistry	 g
     2.3.2  Benthic Macroinvertebrates	9
     2.3.3 Silt-Clay Content	10
     2.3.4 Benthic Chlorophyll	 10
     2.3.5 Sediment Chemistry	     IQ
 2.4 DATA ANALYSIS...	""'"'""'"'"'""'"". IQ

 3.0 PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS	     16
 3.1 BACKGROUND	!."."."!Zl6
 3.2 MAJOR SUBSYSTEMS	"""""""""""".'"I'"" 16
    3.2.1 Depth	16
    3.2.2 Silt-Clay Content	        15
    3.2.3 Salinity	20
    3.2.4 Temperature and pH	            20
 3.3 TARGET AREAS	,	""""""""""""""""""""".'20
    3.3.1 Depth	20
    3.3.2 Silt-Clay Content	".'".'"".20
    3.3.3 Salinity	20
    3.3.4 Temperature andpH	:	20
3.4 COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUS STUDIES	""".'"""".'""""""24
3.5 COMPARISON TO SURROUNDING SYSTEMS	"'.""""".24

4.0 WATER QUALITY	              25
4.1 BACKGROUND	25
4.2 MAJOR SUBSYSTEMS	"".'"".'.25
    4.2.1 Measures of Algal Productivity	25
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    4.2.2 Dissolved Oxygen	..26
    4.2.3 Measures of Water Clarity	26
    4.2.4 Nutrients	30
    4.2.5 SAV Restoration Goals	.	30
4.3  TARGET AREAS	,	37
    4.3.1 Measures of Algal Productivity	37
    4.3.2 Dissolved Oxygen	37
    4.3.3 Measures of Water Clarity	,	;	37
    4.3.4 Nutrients	•	37
    4.3.5 SAV Restoration Goals	42
4.4  COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUS STUDIES	42
4.5  COMPARISON TO SURROUNDING SYSTEMS	....46

5.0  SEDIMENT CONTAMINANTS	,	48
5.1  INTRODUCTION	................48
5.2  CONDITION OF THE COASTAL BAYS	,	!....53
5.3  CONDITION OF DEAD-END CANALS	'.,	53
5.4  COMPARISON TO PREVIOUS STUDIES	54
5.5  COMPARISON TO SURROUNDING SYSTEMS	54

6.0  BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES	 56
6.1  BACKGROUND	-56
6.2  MAJOR SUBSYSTEMS	.....56
    6.2.1 Abundance and Biomass	....56
    6.2.2 Species Richness and Diversity	;	57
    6.2.3 EMAP Benthic Index	*..	57
6.3  TARGET AREAS	5.7
    6.3.1 Abundance and Biomass	57
    6.3.2 Species Richness	,	62
6.4  COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUS STUDIES	.,	62
6.5  COMPARISON TO SURROUNDING SYSTEMS...	....67

7.0  CONCLUSIONS	68
8.0  REFERENCES	,	71

APPENDIX A	A-l

APPENDIX B	...-B-1

APPENDIX C	C-l

APPENDIX D	....D-l

APPENDIX E	'.	•	E-l
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                           EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
 The coastal bays of Delaware and Maryland are 'an important ecological and economic resource whose
 physical characteristics and location make them particularly vulnerable to the effects of pollutants. This
 project was undertaken as a collaborative effort between state and federal agencies to assess the
 ecological condition of this system and fill a data void identified in previous characterization studies. Two
 hundred sites were sampled in the summer of 1993 using a probability-based sampling design that was
 stratified to allow assessments of the coastal bays as a whole, each of four major subsystems within
 coastal bays (Rehoboth Bay, Indian River Bay, Assawoman Bay, and Chincoteague Bay) and four target
 areas of special interest to resource managers (upper Indian River,  St. Martin River, Trappe Creek, and
 dead-end canals). Measures of biological response, sediment contaminants, and eutrophication were
 collected at each site using the same sampling methodologies and quality assurance/quality control
 procedures used by EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP). As an additional
 part of the study, trends in fish communities  structure were assessed by collecting monthly beach seine
 and trawl measurements during the summer at about 70 sites  where historic measurements of fish
 communities have been made.

 Major portions of the coastal bays were found to have degraded environmental conditions. Twenty-eight
 percent of the area in the coastal bays had degraded benthic communities, as measured by EMAP's
 benthic index. More than 75%  of the area in the coastal bays failed the Chesapeake Bay Program's
 Submerged Aquatic Vegetation  (SAV) restoration goals, which are a combination of measures that
 integrate nutrient, chlorophyll, and water clarity parameters. Most areas failed numerous SAV goal
 attributes. Sixty-eight percent of the area in  the coastal bays had at least one sediment contaminant with
 concentrations exceeding published guidelines for protection of benthic organisms. Further study is needed
 to assess whether the biological effects observed were the direct result of contamination.

 Within the coastal bays, Chincoteague Bay was in the best condition of the four major subsystems, while
Indian River was the worst. Only 11% of the area in Chincoteague Bay had degraded benthos compared
to 77% in Indian River. Less than 10% of the area in Indian River met the Chesapeake Bay SAV
Restoration Goals. In comparison, almost 45% of the area in Chincoteague Bay met the Chesapeake Bay
Program's SAV restoration goals, a figure which increased to almost 85% when only the most
controllable components of the goals (nutrient and chlorophyll) were considered.
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All of the target areas of special management interest were in poorer condition than the remainder of the
coastal bays, with dead-end canals having the poorest condition. Chemical contaminants exceeded
published guideline values in 91% of the area of the dead-end canals, and 57% of their area had dissolved
oxygen concentrations less than the state standard of 5 ppm. Dead-end canals also were biologically
depauperate, averaging only 4 benthic species per sample compared to 26 species per sample in the
remaining portions of the coastal bays.

The consistency of the sampling design and methodologies between our study and EMAP allows unbiased
comparison of conditions in the coastal bays with that in other major estuarine systems in EPA Region III
that are sampled by EMAP.  Based on comparison to EMAP data collected between 1990 and  1993, the
coastal bays were found to have a similar or higher frequency of degraded benthic communities than in
Chesapeake or Delaware Bays. Twenty-eight percent of the  area in the coastal bays had degraded
benthic communities as measured by EMAP's benthic index, which was significantly greater than the 16%
EMAP estimated for Delaware Bay using the same methods and same index, and statistically
indistinguishable from the 26% estimated for Chesapeake Bay. The coastal bays also had a prevalence of
chemical contamination in the sediments that was higher than in either Chesapeake Bay or Delaware Bay.
Sixty-eight percent of the area in the coastal bays exceeded published guideline values for at least one
contaminant compared to 46% for Chesapeake Bay and 34% for Delaware Bay. While the percent of
area having these concerns is higher in the coastal bays, the absolute amount of area having these
concerns is greater in the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays because of their larger size.

The fish community structure in Maryland's coastal bays was  found to have remained relatively
unchanged during the past twenty years while that of similar systems  in Delaware have changed
substantially. Fish communities of the Maryland coastal bays are dominated by Atlantic silversides, bay
anchovy, Atlantic menhaden, and spot, which is similar to the community structure measured in the
Delaware coastal bays 35 years ago. The fish fauna in Delaware's coastal bays has shifted toward species
of the Family Cyprinodontidae (e.g., killifish and sheepshead minnow) which are more tolerant to low
oxygen stress, and salinity and temperature extremes.
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                          ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 This data summary is the culmination of the efforts of many people from multiple organizations. The
 authors would like to acknowledge the efforts of the members of field collection, laboratory analysis, and
 data analysis teams whose hard work and dedication made this program a success.

 The 1993 field sampling effort was a cooperative effort of numerous individuals.  We would especially like
 to thank Ben Anderson, Ellen Dickey, arid John Maxted of Delaware Department of Natural Resources
 and Environmental Control; JCelly Cox, Laura Fabian, and Jenny Gillis of the Maryland Department of the
 Environment; and Randy Hochberg and Fred Kelley of Versar for their dedication to completing the field
 effort. We are also grateful to Natalie Wagner of EPA for administrative tracking of field data and sample
 shipments.  .                  . •  -             .      ,                 ,   "

 Researchers from several institutions contributed significantly to this effort through the laboratory analysis
 of samples. We wish to thank Lisa  Scott of Versar and Nancy Mountford of Cove Corporation for
 processing the benthic invertebrate samples; Pete Sampou, Lois Lane, and Sara Rhodes of Horn Point
 Environmental Laboratory for analyzing the water quality samples; Nate Malof of EPA who oversaw the
 analysis of sediment contaminants samples; and Richard Geider and Lee Karrh of the University of
 Delaware who performed the benthic chlorophyll analysis.

 We are grateful to Mike Gaughan, Ananda Ranasinghe, and Jon Volstad for assistance in the data
 analysis, Thuzar Myint and Don Strebel for developing GIS maps, and Emily Rzemien and Renee
 Conner for providing graphic illustrations. We thank Tom Parham for his significant technical and
 logistical support during several phases of the study. We also  thank Carol DeLisle for editorial help, and
 Gail Lucas and Lois Haseltine for document production.

We would also like to acknowledge the individual members of the Delaware/Maryland Coastal Bays
Joint Assessment Steering Committee, whose dedication and perseverance were crucial to the
implementation and success of this program:
Frederick W. Kutz
Tom DeMoss
Leonard Mangiaracina
Edward Ambrogio
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III
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John Maxted
Bennett Anderson

Richard Eskin
Robert Magnien

Ronald J. Klauda
James F. Casey
Cecelia C. Linder
Steven B. Doctor

Kent Price
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
Maryland Department of the Environment
Maryland Department of Natural Resources
University of Delaware, Delaware Inland Bays Estuary Program
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                               1.0 INTRODUCTION
 1.1  THE COASTAL BAYS JOINT
     ASSESSMENT: BACKGROUND
     AND RATIONALE
 The coastal bays formed by the barrier islands of
 Maryland and Delaware are important ecological
 and economic resources.  The coastal bays are
 spawning and nursery areas for more than 100
 species of fish, almost half of which are of
 commercial or recreational value. The bays are
 surrounded by an extensive network of tidal
 wetlands that contributes to and sustains this
 nursery and many other functions.  The coastal
 bays also provide important habitat for migratory
 birds; the bays are part of the Atlantic fly way,
 one of four major migratory routes in the United
 States. Fpr these reasons, both the coastal bays
 of Delaware and Maryland are included in the
 National Estuary Program.

The coastal bays are also an important economic
resource. More than 10 million people visit the
Delmarva Peninsula annually.  The primary
recreational attractions of the region are boating,
swimming, and fishing, with more than a
half-million user-days of recreational fishing
each year (Seagraves 1985). The coastal bays
also support commercial fisheries for hard
clams, blue crabs, sea trout, and several other
species of fish. The total economic return from
 recreational and commercial activities associated
 with the coastal bays is estimated to exceed 3
 billion dollars, and the bays support almost
 SO.OOOjobs.

 The physical characteristics and location of the
 coastal bays make them particularly vulnerable
 to the effects of pollutants. The bays are mostly
 land-locked and have few outlets to the ocean.
 This, combined with a relatively limited volume
 of freshwater inflow, results in a low flushing
 rate (Pritchard 1960), and makes them
 susceptible to concentration of pollutants (Quinn
 et al. 1989). Water quality data suggest that
 several tidal creeks supplying the coastal bay's
 limited freshwater inflow are eutrophied (ANSP
 1988), largely as a result of nutrient enrichment
 from surrounding agricultural lands (Ritter
 1986), thereby enhancing this concern. Steady
 population increases in the watershed add to the
 future concerns for this resource; an increase of
 almost 20% by the year 2000 is expected for the
 Maryland portion alone (Andriot 1980).

 A first step in developing management strategies
 for these systems is to characterize their present
 condition and describe how it has changed over
time. Two recent efforts have  attempted to
characterize the condition of the coastal bays for
that purpose (Boynton et al. 1993, Weston
 1993), but both of these assessments noted that
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the amount of data available for the system was
limited. The available data were generally
collected more than a decade ago and usually
represented a limited.number of collection sites
confined to areas, perceived to have pollution
problems. The system-wide information
necessary to characterize the spatial extent of
any problems has never been collected.

An important part of such an assessment is
characterizing biological responses to
environmental problems, since protecting these
resources is the focus of management actions
and biological data are particularly lacking in
the coastal bays.  The most comprehensive data
for characterizing benthic invertebrate condition
of the coastal bays comes from a 20-year-old
survey of a single system (Maurer 1977) and
that survey was used almost exclusively to
describe species distributions, not to evaluate the
ecological condition of the bays. Recent fish
surveys are available for Maryland's coastal
bays (Casey et al. 1993), but the last
comprehensive survey of Delaware's coastal
bays was conducted almost a quarter-century
ago (Derickson and Price 1973).

1.2 OVERVIEW OF CBJA

The Coastal Bays Joint Assessment (CBJA) is a
collaborative State and Federal effort to
characterize the condition of the coastal bays of
Delaware and Maryland and to fill the void
identified in the previous characterization
efforts.  The CBJA has three major objectives:

(1) to assess the current ecological condition of
the coastal bays of Delaware and Maryland;
(2) to compare the current condition of the bays
with their historical condition; and
(3) to evaluate indicators and sampling design
elements that can be used to direct future
.monitoring activities in the system.

The participants in the CBJA are the Delaware
Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Control (DNREC), the Maryland
Department of the Environment (MDE), the
Maryland Department of Natural Resources
(MDNR), EPA Region III, the Delaware Inland
Bays Estuary Program (DIBEP), and EPA's
Office of Research and Development. The
CBJA was initiated as a multi-state effort with
the recognition that the stresses on these
systems, and thus the management actions
necessary for their protection, are similar across
state boundaries. The CBJA focuses on
assessing condition of the coastal bays as a
whole, for each of four major subsystems within
the coastal bays (Rehoboth Bay, Indian River
Bay, Assawoman Bay, and Chincoteague Bay)
and four areas of special concern to resource
managers (upper Indian River, St. Martin River,
Trappe Creek, and  dead-end canals).

In 1993, the CBJA  initiated a comprehensive
field survey of the coastal bays in which data
were collected at 200 sites. The data collection
approaches used in the survey borrowed heavily
from methodologies developed by EPA's
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Program (Weisberg et al. 1993) and were
predicated on three general principles. First,
data were collected using a probability-based
sampling design. A probability-based sampling
design ensures .unbiased estimation of condition,
which is not possible when sampling sites are
preselected by the investigator, and ensures that
all areas within the system are potentially
subject to sampling. The probability based
sampling design also allows calculation of
confidence intervals around estimates of
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 condition. Confidence intervals provide
 managers with full knowledge of the strength or
 weakness of the data upon which their decisions
 will be based. Another advantage of the
 probability-based sampling design is that it
 allows investigators to estimate the actual area
 (i.e., number of acres) throughout the system in
 which ecological conditions differ from
 reference areas.  This emphasis on estimating
 areal extent is a departure from traditional
 approaches to environmental monitoring, which
 generally estimate the average condition.

 Second, the survey collocated measurements of
 pollution exposure with measurements of
 biological response, enabling examination of
 associations between degraded ecological
 condition and particular environmental stresses.
 Although associations do not conclusively
 identify the causes of degradation, associations
 are valuable for establishing priorities for more
 specific research and could contribute to
 developing the most efficient regional strategies
 for protecting or improving the environment by
 identifying the predominant types of stress  on
 the system.

 Third,  a common set of indicators, sampling
 methodologies, and QA protocols were used
 across  state boundaries. The probability-based
 sampling design provides a framework for
 integrating data into a comprehensive regional
 assessment; however, the validity of such an
 assessment depends on ensuring that all the data
 that contribute to it are comparable.
 1.3 PURPOSE AND ORGANIZATION
 OFTfflS REPORT

 This report addresses the first objective of the
 CBJA. It summarizes the data collected during
 a 1993 sampling survey and provides a
 preliminary assessment of the current ecological
 condition of the coastal bays. Intended future
 analyses of the CBJA include an examination of
 trends in the condition of the bays using historical
 data, an effort to associate the ecological
 condition of the major bays and areas of special
 concern with particular patterns of land use, and
 an evaluation of the utility of EMAP approaches
 within the coastal bays.

 This report includes six chapters: Methods -
 Chapter 2, chapters describing each of four
 general groups of indicators (i.e., Physical
 Characteristics - Chapter 3, Water Quality -
 Chapter 4, Sediment Contaminants - Chapter 5,
 Benthos - Chapter 6), and Conclusions - Chapter
 7. Chapters 3 through 6 include tables of the
 average values of the respective indicators in the
 four major subsystems and the areas of special
 concern, figures showing the percent of area
 within the major subsystems and special target
 areas that exceeds or falls below a generally
 accepted threshold value (i.e., percent
 "degraded" area) for selected indicators, and
 maps showing the distribution of degraded sites
 for selected indicators.  These chapters also
 compare the preliminary conclusions of the
 CBJA with the results of other recent
 characterizations of the coastal bays and with
 assessments of other estuaries within EPA
 Region III. These comparisons help to put the
 CBJA results into regional perspective. The
 report also includes three appendices: Appendix
A describes the methods and results of a fish
sampling effort that was conducted as an
 ancillary part of the present study. The fish data
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 were placed in an appendix because they were
 collected using a different sampling design than
 what was used for the rest of the project, and
 because the purpose of the fish analysis was
 different from the rest of the report. Fish
 analyses focus on description of trends rather
 than an estimation of current status. Appendix
 B provides average concentrations for all
 sediment contaminants measured in the survey;
 Appendix C provides a species list of benthic
 macroinvertebrates collected in the coastal bays
 during 1993; Appendix D provides the
 minimum, maximum, median and quartile
 values of all attributes measured in the present
 study; Appendix E provides a data summary for
 a benthic survey of Turville Creek which was
 conducted as an ancillary part of this study.
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                                    2.0  METHODS
 2.1 SAMPLING DESIGN


 Sampling sites were selected using a stratified
 random sampling design in which the coastal
 bays were stratified into several subsystems for
 which independent estimates of condition were
 desired:

 •    upper Indian River

 •    Trappe Creek/Newport Bay

 •    St. Martin River

 •    dead-end canals throughout the coastal
     bays

 •    all remaining areas within Maryland's
     coastal bays

 •    all remaining areas within Delaware's
     coastal bays

The upper Indian River, Trappe Creek, and St.
Martin River were defined as sampling strata
because resource managers expressed particular
concern about these areas.  Water quality data
suggest that each of these tidal creeks is subject
to excessive nutrient enrichment, algal blooms,
and low concentrations of dissolved oxygen.
These creeks are also believed to transmit large
 nutrient loads (from agricultural runoff)
 downstream, contributing to eutrophication
 throughout the coastal bays (Boynton et al.
 1993).

 Dead-end canals were defined as a stratum
 because of their high potential for impact based
 on their physical characteristics and their
 proximity to a variety of contaminant sources
 (Brenum 1976).  These dredged canal systems
 can form the aquatic equivalent of streets in
 development parcels; they already encompass
 105 linear miles and almost 4% of the surface
 area of Delaware's inland bays. In general,
 these systems are constructed as dead-end
 systems with little or no freshwater inflows for
 flushing. They are often dredged to a depth
 greater than the surrounding waters, leaving a
 ledge that further inhibits exchange with nearby
 waters and leads to stagnant water in the canals.
 The placement of these systems in relatively
 high density residential areas increases the
 potential for contaminant input. Much of the
 modified land-use in dredged canal systems
 extends to the bulkheaded water's edge,
 providing a ready source of unfiltered runoff of
 lawn-care and structural pest  control products.
 In many cases, the bulkhead and dock systems
 in these canal systems are built from treated
 lumber containing chromium,  copper, and arsenic,
providing another source of contaminants.
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Two-hundred sites were sampled, 25 in each of
the first 4 sampling strata and 50 in each of the
last 2 (Figure 2-1). Sites for all strata except
canals were selected by using a two stage
process.  First, the EMAP hexagonal grid
(Overton et al. 1990) was enhanced for the
coastal bays study area and the appropriate
number of grid cells was selected randomly for
each stratum.  In the second stage, a random site
from within these cells was selected. Sites in the
dead-end canals were selected by developing a
list frame (of all existing canals),  randomly
selecting 25 canals from that list, and then
randomly selecting a site within each canal.

All sampling was conducted between July 12 and
September 30,1993. Sampling was limited to a
single index period because available resources
were insufficient to sample in all seasons. Late
summer is the time during which environmental
stress on estuarine systems in the mid-Atlantic
region is expected to be greatest owing to high
temperatures and low dilution flows (Holland
1990). The sampling period coincided with the
period during which EMAP  samples estuaries of
the mid-Atlantic region; therefore, data collected
in the coastal bays annually  for EMAP can be
incorporated into estimates of ecological
condition generated from CBJA  data and CBJA
data can contribute to continuing development
and evaluation of EMAP indicators.
2.2 SAMPLE COLLECTION

Samples were collected during daylight hours
from a 21-ft Privateer equipped with an electric
winch with a 12-ft boom. Sampling sites were
located using a Global Positioning System (GPS)
receiver. Dead reckoning was used to locate
sites when signal interference or equipment
malfunction prevented reliable performance of
the GPS receiver.  Obvious landmarks, channel
markers, and other fixed structures were noted
to identify the site location whenever dead
reckoning was used.
2.2.1 Water Column

Temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, conductivity,
and salinity were measured at each site using a
Hydrolab Surveyor II. The number of depths for
which water quality measurements were
collected depended upon the bottom depth (Table
2-1).  Water clarity was measured using a 20-cm
Secchi disk. The presence of floating debris
within 50 m of the boat was noted. Debris was
categorized as paper, plastic, cans, bottles,
medical waste, or other.

Water samples were collected for analysis of
nitrogen, phosphorus  and carbon species, total
suspended solids (TSS), turbidity, and ".
chlorophyll a. A 250-ml sample bottle was
deployed 0.5 m below the surface, rinsed three
times with ambient water, filled, capped, and
stored at 4° C for total suspended solids analysis.
The procedure was repeated with a 125-ml
bottle for measuring turbidity and a 1-gallon
bottle for nutrients. Three filtrations were
performed for each nutrient parameter using
measured aliquots from the same one-gallon
sample.  The volume of filtered sample varied
according to the relative turbidity at a site; high
turbidity caused low filtering volumes. A 47-mm
diameter GF/F filter was used for total
particulate phosphorus analysis; a 25-mm GF/F
filter was used for chlorophyll a analysis; and an
ashed, 25-mm GF/F filter was used for
particulate carbon and nitrogen analysis.  Each
filter was removed from the vacuum filtration
apparatus using forceps, wrapped in aluminum
foil, placed in a small zip-lock bag, and frozen on
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                                                     Dead-end Canals
                                                     Other Sampling Sites
                                                     Atlantic Ocean
Figure 2-1. Location of sampling sites in the Delaware/Maryland coastal bays.
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Table 2-1. Criteria for in situ water quality
Bottom Depth (m)
si
Ito2
2 to 3.3
>3.3
measurements

Water Quality Measurements
Surf ace (a>
Surface, bottom 
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 2.3.2 Benthic Macroinvertebrates

 Species composition, abundance, and biomass
 of benthos, and silt-clay content were
 determined using methods outlined in the
 EMAP Near Coastal Laboratory Methods
 Manual (Klemm et al. 1993) and updated in
 Frithsen et al. (1994). The macrobenthos were
 identified to the lowest practical taxonomic
 category and counted. Identified organisms
                     were placed into predetermined biomass groups
                     and formaldehyde dry weight was determined.
                     Bivalves and gastropods were acidified prior to
                     weighing to remove inorganic shell material.  To
                     standardize the biomass measurements, all
                     samples were preserved in a 10% solution of
                     buffered formaldehyde for at least  two months
                     before measuring biomass.
  Table 2-2. Analytical methods for water column chemistry.
   Analyte
Method
References
   Chlorophyll a Phaeophytin
   Nitrate and Nitrite
   Ammonium
   Total Dissolved Nitrogen
   Orthophosphate
   Total Dissolved Phosphorous

   Total Paniculate Nitrogen
   Total Particulate Phosphorous
   Total Paniculate Carbon
   Dissolved Organic Carbon
   Total Suspended Solids
   Turbidity
Spectrophotometric; Trichromatic
Calorimetric; cadmium reduction
Calorimetric; automated phenate
Calorimetric; persulfate oxidation
Calorimetric; automated ascorbic acid
Calorimetric; persulfate digestion and
automated ascorbic acid
                     /
Oxidative combustion
Calorimetric; persulfate digestion
Oxidative Combustion
Persulfate Digestion
Gravimetric
Nephelometer
APHA (1981)
EPA Method 353.2
EPA Method 350.1
D'Elia et al. (1977)
EPA Method 365.1

EPA Method 365.1
Leeman Labs (1988)
Aspilla et al.  (1976)
Leeman Labs (1988)
Menzel and Vaccaro 1964)
APHA (1981)
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 2.3.3 Silt-Clay Content
 2.4 DATA ANALYSIS
 Sediment samples were processed to determine
 silt-clay content according to EMAP procedures
 described in Klemm et al. 1993. Sediment
 samples were sieved through a 63-[im mesh
 sieve. The filtrate and the fraction remaining on
 the sieve were dried at 60°C and weighed to,
 calculate the proportion of silts and clays in the
 sample.                               ;
 2.3.4  Benthic Chlorophyll

 Sediment samples were processed to determine ,
 benthic chlorophyll concentrations. Sample- -y ,
 aliquots were suspended in 90% acetone,  ;,  "
 extracted overnight at -20°C, resuspended, arid
 the supernatant was collected. Each sample; was
 extracted three times and the supernatant? were
 combined. The faenthic chlorophyll concentration
 of the supernatant was determined by two
 different methods: (1) high-performance liquid
 chromatography described by Heukelem et al.
 (1992) and (2) the fluorometric method described
 in Parsons et al. (1984).                ,     V
2.3.5 Sediment Chemistry           • ,  .:;.

Sediments were analyzed for the NOAA   '..
National Status and Trends suite of      .• '.
contaminants (Table 2-3) using standard  •
analytical methods (Table 2-4).  Due to cost  .
constraints, only a random subset of 11 samples
from the dead-end canals and 10 samples from
the remaining coastal bays were processed in the
laboratory.  Data from non-canal areas were:/"
supplemented with 14 samples recently  *: ;  ,
collected by EMAP using a compatible sampling
design and identical field and laboratory methods.
•For reporting purposes, the study area was    ;
 post-stratified into the following subpopulations:
, Rehoboth Bay, Indian River (including upper
 Indian River), Assawoman Bay (including St.
 Martin River), and Chincoteague Bay (Figure  •
 2-2).  Boundaries of the four special target areas
 .(i.e., upper Indian River, St. Martin River; Trappe
 Creek/Newport Bay, and dead-end canals) Were
 not changed. Dead-end canals were evaluated
 as a separate subpopulation arid were riot
 included in calculations for the remaining study
 area..

 The condition of each of these areas was
 assessed in two ways: the mean condition and
, the percent of area exceeding threshold values
 for selected parameters.  Since the sampling  ,
 sites within each stratum (except the dead-end
, canals) were selected with equal inclusion
 probabilities, the mean parameter values (eq. I) >
 for a stratum, h, and its variance (eq. 2) were
 calculated as:
                                                                                 (EQ.l)
 where
 yM is the variable of interest (e.g., concentration
of phosphorus), and nh is the number of samples
collected from stratum A.

The stratified mean value for L strata with
combined area A is given by      ,

                                                                                   (EQ.2)
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    Table 2-3. Analytes for CBJA sediment samples.
                                              Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)
   Acenaphthene
   Fluoranthene
   Pyrene
   Benzo(e)pyrene
   1-methylnaphthalene
   Benzo(g,h,i)pery!ene
       2,6-dimethyInaphthaIene
       Phenanthrene
       Benzo(a)pyrene
       2-methyInaphthalene
       Benzo(k)fluoranthene
       Dibenz(a,b)anthracene
Perylene
Benz(a)anthracene
Ideno(l,2,3-c,d)pyrene
Acenaphthylene
Chrysene
Naphthalene
       Anthracene
       Fluorene  ,       ,•
       Benzo(b) fluoranthene
       Biphenyl
       1-methy Iphenanthrene
       2,3,5-TrimethyInaphthaIene
           DDT and its metabolites
                                                                    Chlorinated pesticides other than DDT
   o,p'-DDD
   p,p'-DDD
   o,p'-DDE
p,p'-DDE
o,p'-DDT
p,p'-DDT
   Aldrin
   Hexachlorobenzene
   Dieldrin
Heptachlor epoxide
Trans-Nonachlor
Mirex
Alpha-Chlordane
Lindane gamnia-BHC)
Heptachlor
             Major Elements
   Aluminum
   Iron
   Manganese
                                    Antimony    Arsenic
                                    Copper      Selenium
                                    Mercury     Tin
                       Trace Elements

                           Cadmium  ,, Chromium
                           Lead       Silver
                           Nickel      Zinc
                                                 18 PCB Congeners:
       No.

       8
       18
       28
       44
       52
       66
       101
       105
       118
       128
       138
       153
       170
       180
       187
       195
      206
      209
                    Compound Name

   2,4'-dichlorobiphenyl
   2,2',5-trichlorobiphenyl
   2,4,4'-trichlorobiphenyl
   2,2',3,5'-tetrachlorobiphenyl
   2,2',5,5'-tetrachIorobiphenyl
   2,3',4,4'-tetrachlorobiphenyl
   2,2',4,5,5'-pentachlorobiphenyl
   2,3,3',4,4'-pentachlorobiphenyI
   2,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl
   2,2',3,3',4,41-hexachlorobiphenyl
   2,3',3,4,4',5-hexachlorobiphenyl
   2>2',3,4(4',51-hexachlorobiphenyl
   2,2',4,4',5,51-hexachlorobiphenyl
   2,2',3,3',4,4',5-heptachlorobiphenyl
   2,21,3,4,4',5,51-heptachlorobiphenyl
   2,2',3,3',4,4',5,6-octachlorobiphenyl
   2,21,3,31,4,4'(5,5',6-nonachlorobiphenyl
   decachlorobiphenyl
   Tributyltin
    Acid volatile sulfides
                                                  Other measurements
                             Total organic carbon
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Table 2-4. Analytical methods used for determination of chemical contaminant
concentrations in sediments
Compound(s)
Inorganics:
Ag, Al, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn
As, Cd, Sb, Se, Sn
Hg
Organics:
Extraction/Cleanup
PAH measurement
PCB/pesticide
Method

Total digestion using HF/HNO3 (open vessel hot
plate) followed by inductively coupled plasma-
atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) analysis.
Microwave digestion using HNO3/HCI followed by
graphite furnace atomic absorption (GFAA)
analysis.
Cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry

Soxhlet extraction, extract drying using sodium
sulfate, extract concentration using Kuderna-Danish
apparatus, removal of elemental sulfur with activated
copper, removal of organic interferents with GPC
and/or alumina.
Gas chromatography /electron
spectrometry (GC/MS)
Gas chromatography /electron capture detection (GC/
ECD) with second column confirmation
where the weighting factors, Wh = Ah/A, ensure
that each stratum h is weighted by its fraction of
the combined area for all L strata. An estimator
for the variance of the stratified mean (3) is
(EQ.3)
                Strata were combined following Holt and Smith
                (1979). Confidence intervals were calculated as
                1.64 times the standard error, where the standard
                error is the square root of the variance
                (estimated by eq. 4). Statistical differences
                between populations of interest were defined on
                    6=1
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 the basis of non-overlapping confidence
 intervals.
                                                   where
            /l=l                     (EQ.4)

The samples from the dead-end canals were
treated as a cluster sample, in which the canals
formed clusters (areas) of unequal size. Mean
parameter values were calculated as
area-weighted means:

where
       q =
                                    
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where
                              (EQ.10)
                               (EQ.ll)
The formulas for estimating means and
variances for canals also were used to estimate
the percentage of area in the canals with y
values that fell into some defined class. An
indicator variable, lit was assigned the value if
the value of y, fell in a specified class, and 0
otherwise. The sample mean and variance of I.
Is an estimate of the proportion of area in the
canals that has y values within the specified
class.
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                                                         Major Subsystem
Figure 2-2. Boundaries of post-stratified subpopulations which were used in the study.
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                  3.0 PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
3.1 BACKGROUND
Measurements of physical characteristics
provide basic information about the natural
environment. Knowledge of the physical context
in which biological and chemical data are
collected is important for interpreting results
accurately because physical characteristics of
the environment determine the distribution and
species composition of estuarine communities,
particularly assemblages of benthic
macroinvertebrates. Salinity, sediment type, and
depth are all important influences on benthic
assemblages (Snelgrove and Butman 1994,
Holland et al. 1989).  Sediment grain size also
affects the accumulation of contaminants in
sediments. Fine-grained sediments generally are
more susceptible to accumulating contaminates
than sands because of the greater  surface area
of fine particles (Rhoads 1974; Plumb 1981).

Depth, silt-clay content of the sediment, bottom
salinity, temperature, and pH were measured to
describe the physical conditions at sites in the
coastal bays. Sediment type was defined
according to silt-clay content (fraction less than
63[i); classifications were the same as those
used forEMAP. Biologically meaningful salinity
classes were defined  according to a modified
Venice System (Symposium on the Classification
of Brackish Waters 1958).

3.2 MAJOR SUBSYSTEMS

3.2.1 Depth

The coastal bays of Delaware and Maryland are
shallow systems with an average depth of 1.5 m
(Table 3-1).  Depth exceeded 3 m at only 3 of
200 sampling sites. Average depth among the
four major subsystems was not significantly
different. The amount of area shallower than
0.6 m may have been underestimated because
this was the minimum depth accessible for
sampling; however, less than 5% of the area in
each major system was unsampleable because of
insufficient depth.

3.2.2 Silt-Clay Content

The coastal bays had a diverse bottom habitat
including broad areas of mud, sand, and mixed
substrates (Figure 3-1). Sand was a more
predominant substrate than mud and accounted
for more than 40% of the study area.  Muddy
sediments were less prevalent, accounting for
less than 20% of the area (Figure 3-2). The
distribution of mud, sand, and mixed substrates
was similar among Rehoboth, Assawoman, and
Chincoteague bays. The average silt-clay
content of Indian River Bay was significantly
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higher than in the other three systems, and the
percentage of muddy substrate was twice that of
any other system (Table 3-1).

3.2.3 Salinity

The coastal bays were predominantly polyhaline
(> 25 ppt salinity). Average salinity in
Chincoteague Bay was about 2 ppt greater than
in the other three coastal bays (Table 3-1). No
measured area in Chincoteague Bay had salinity
less than 25 ppt, whereas salinities less than 25
ppt accounted for at least 5% of the area in each
of the other major subsystems (Figure 3-3).
Only Indian River had measured salinities less
than 18 ppt; this salinity class encompassed
approximately 5% of the area.  Some unsampled
portions of the coastal bays undoubtedly have
lower salinities but the percentage of area they
represent is small.

3.2.4 Temperature and pH

Average temperature for the coastal bays was
25.5 C and average pH was 7.8 (Table 3-1).
Neither parameter varied appreciably among the
four major subsystems.
3.3 TARGET AREAS

3.3.1  Depth

Average depths in the special target areas were
not significantly different than the average depth
of the entire study area.  Average depths of the
four special target areas ranged from 1.3 m to
1.8 m (Table 3-1).
3.3.2 Silt-Clay Content

All of the special target areas were significantly
muddier than the coastal bays as a whole (Table
3-1). The upper Indian River was the muddiest;
almost half of the area had a silt-clay content of
greater than 80% (Figure 3-4). Sandy substrate
covered less than 20% of each of the four
special target areas. Less than 10% of the upper
Indian River had sandy sediments.

3.3.3 Salinity

The special target areas were predominantly
polyhaline, but average salinities in all special
target areas except the dead-end canals were
less than that of the entire study area (Table
3-1). Approximately 40% of upper Indian River
had salinities less than 25 ppt (Figure 3-5).  The
closed-ended dead-end canals, which  have no
freshwater input, were almost completely
polyhaline. All other systems had sources of
fresh water.

3.3.4 Temperature and pH

All special target areas had higher average
temperatures than the entire study area (Table
3-1). The maximum temperature of 37.4 C was
measured in the discharge canal of a power
generating station in upper Indian River. The
average pH levels of the special target areas
were not significantly different than the average
pH of the entire study area.  The highest pH
(9.4) was measured at the uppermost sampling
site in Trappe Creek.
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3.4 COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUS
STUDIES      /

Physical characteristics measured during the
1993 coastal bays study generally agree with .
those reported in previous characterizations of
the Maryland (Boynton et al. 1993) and
Delaware (Weston 1993) coastal bays.
Rehoboth Bay and Indian River are described as
shallow systems with an average depth less than
2 m; the eastern third of Rehoboth averages less
than 1 m deep. Average depths of about 1.2 m
are reported for Maryland bays, including
Chincoteague and Assawoman.

Fang et al. (1977) described the Maryland
coastal bays as a polyhaline environment;
similarly, Rehoboth Bay and lower Indian River
were classified as polyhaline in the Weston
(1993) characterization. The salinity range
measured in upper Indian River during pur study
did not vary appreciably from similar data
reported in the Weston (1993) characterization.

Maps of the areal distribution of bottom
sediments, as reported by Bartberger and Biggs
(1970) in Maryland and by Chrzastowski (1986)
in Delaware are generally similar to those from
this study, but a few minor differences can be
noted.  The previous characterization described
Rehoboth Bay as predominantly sand (41%),
with equal proportions of mixed and muddy
sediments.  In our study, Rehoboth Bay was
sandier (53%) and less muddy (17%). Indian
River was previously described as approximately
equal proportions of muddy and sandy sediments
(Chrzastowski 1986); our study found a higher
proportion of mixed sediments and a lesser
percent of sandy sediments. These minor
differences could result from changes in
conditions over the last decade, but more likely
result from differences in the study design
(previous studies did not use a probability-based
sampling design) or from minor differences in
how mud and sand were defined between
studies.

3.5 COMPARISON TO
SURROUNDING SYSTEMS

One design feature of the coastal bays study is
that it was conducted using the same sampling
design, methodologies, and quality assurance/
quality control procedures  as EPA's EMAP,
allowing comparisons between the coastal bays
and other major estuarine systems in EPA
Region III that are sampled by EMAP, such as
Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware Bay. When
such comparisons are conducted, the coastal
bays are found to be shallower, saltier, and
muddier than either the Chesapeake Bay or
Delaware Bay. Average depths of 8.3 m in
Chesapeake Bay and 7.0 m in Delaware Bay
are approximately 5 m deeper than the coastal
bays. Both of these deeper systems include
areas which exceed 40 m in depth. In contrast,
none of the 200 sample sites in the coastal bays
exceeded 4 m in depth.

The average  silt-clay content was higher in the
coastal bays  than in the other two systems. The
silt-clay content for the coastal bays was 40%,
compared to 34% for Chesapeake Bay and 24%
for Delaware Bay.  Mean bottom salinity in the
coastal bays  (30.6 ppt) was substantially higher
than in either Chesapeake Bay (18.5 ppt) or
Delaware Bay (22.5 ppt), reflecting the meager
freshwater input to the coastal bays.
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                              4.0 WATER QUALITY
 4.1 BACKGROUND

 Healthy aquatic ecosystems require clear water,
 acceptable concentrations of dissolved oxygen,
 limited concentrations of phytoplankton, and
 appropriate concentrations of nutrients';'- Clear
 water is a critical requirement for submerged
 aquatic vegetation (SAV), which provides
 habitat for many other aquatic organisms
 (Dennison et al. 1993). As large concentrations
 of suspended sediment or algal blooms reduce
 water clarity, the amount of sunlight reaching
 SAV is diminished and the plants fail to thrive;
 consequently, critical habitat for crabs, fish, and
 other aquatic organisms is lost (Magnien et al.
 1995). Nutrient enrichment causes excessive
 algal growth in the water column and on the
 surfaces of plants.  As bacteria metabolize
 senescent excess algae, they deplete dissolved
 oxygen in the water column and sediments
 causing hypoxia and, in extreme cases, anoxia.

 Water quality in the coastal bays of Delaware
 and Maryland was evaluated using four classes
 of indicators: measures of algal productivity,
 dissolved oxygen (DO), water clarity, and
 nutrients. Measures of algal biomass included
 the concentrations of chlorophyll in the water
 column and sediment, and phaeophytin. Secchi
depth, total suspended  solids (TSS), and
 turbidity were measured to assess water clarity.
 Nutrient measures included dissolved inorganic
 nitrogen (DIN; nitrite, nitrate, and ammonium),
 dissolved inorganic phosphorus (DIP), total
 dissolved nitrogen (TDN), total dissolved
 phosphorus (TDP), and paniculate nitrogen and
 phosphorus.

 Estimating the percent of area showing
 symptoms of eutriphication in the coastal bays
 requires identifying threshold levels for selected
 indicators that define eutrophication. While no
 such levels have been established for the coastal
 bays, the Chesapeake Bay Program has
 established thresholds for five water quality
 parameters to define critical habitat requirements
 for supporting SAV in a polyhaline environment
 (Dennison et al. 1993); these thresholds were
 used for our assessment (Table 4-1). All but one
 of the SAV restoration goal attributes were
 measured directly. The light attenuation
 coefficient was calculated from secchi depth
 measurements.
4.2 MAJOR SUBSYSTEMS

4.2.1 Measures of Algal Productivity

The mean concentration of chlorophyll a in the
water column varied considerably among the
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Table 4-1. Chesapeake Bay submerged aquatic vegetation habitat requirements for a
polyhaline environment (Dennison et al. 1993).
Parameter ,
Light attenuation coefficient (kd; nr1)
Total suspended solid (mg/1)
Chlorophyll a Ozg/1)
Dissolved inorganic nitrogen (jjM)
Dissolved inorganic phosphorus (jjM)
Critical Value
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coastal bays. The mean concentration in
Chincoteague Bay was significantly less than the
concentrations  in any of the other three major
subsystems (Table 4-2). Indian River had the
largest mean concentration, almost four times
that of Chincoteague Bay. Average phaedphytin
concentrations were distributed similarly.

A significantly smaller portion of Chincoteague
Bay had chlorophyll a concentrations exceeding
the 15 ug/ml SAV restoration goal than any of
the other systems (Figure 4-1). The percentage
of area exceeding the threshold in the other
systems ranged from four to six times that in
Chincoteague Bay, and the differences were
statistically significant (Figure 4-1). Almost
25% of the area in Indian River had chlorophyll
a concentrations exceeding 30 ug/ml.

Average concentrations of chlorophyll in benthic
sediment did not vary appreciably among coastal
bays systems, except for Rehoboth Bay.
Concentrations in Rehoboth Bay were two to
four times greater than concentrations in the
other systems (Table 4-2).
4.2.2 Dissolved Oxygen

Mean concentrations of DO ranged from 5.9
ppm to 6.7 ppm and did not vary appreciably
among the four major subsystems (Table 4-2).
Only Indian River had DO concentrations less
than 5 ppm, (the state standard in both states) in
more than 10% of its area (Figure 4-2).  None of
the major subsystems had measured DO
concentrations less than 2 ppm, but the extent of
low dissolved oxygen may be underestimated in
this study because measurements were limited to
daytime hours.

4.2.3 Measures of Water Clarity

Indicators of water clarity were consistently
better in Chincoteague Bay than in the other
systems.  Chincoteague Bay had the highest
mean secchi depth, approximately 1 m (Table
4-2). Average secchi depth is underestimated in
our study for all of the major subsystems, except
Assawoman Bay, because it included
measurements when the secchi disk was
readable on the bottom.
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The light attenuation coefficient (Kd) was
calculated as 1.65/secchi depth (m) (Giesen et
al. 1990).  More than 55% of the area in each of
the major subsystems exceeded the SAV
restoration goal Kd threshold of 1.5 nr1 (Figure
4-3).  No portion of the area in Assawoman Bay
had a Kd value below the critical threshold.

Consistent with the light attenuation results,
average concentrations for both total suspended
solids and turbidity measurements were lowest
in Chincoteague Bay (Table 4-2).  Chincoteague
Bay also had the largest proportion of area with
TSS concentrations below the 15 mg/1 SAV
restoration goal (Figure 4-4). The percentage of
area below this value was significantly smaller in
Chincoteague than in either major system in
Delaware, but was not significantly different
than Assawoman Bay.

4.2.4 Nutrients

Mean concentrations of nitrate/nitrite and
ammonium were highest and total dissolved
nitrogen was second-highest in Indian River
(Table 4-2). For nitrate/nitrite, average
concentration in Indian River was 5 to 10 times
and significantly greater than in any other major
subsystem. Almost 15% of the area in the
coastal bays failed the SAV restoration goal of
10 ^M for DIN (Figure 4-5). This percentage
was highest, exceeding 30%, in Indian River.

Mean DIP concentration in the two Delaware
systems was approximately twice as high, and
significantly greater, than the levels in both
Maryland systems (Table 4-2). The difference
between states was also apparent in the percent
of area exceeding  the 0.67 u, M SAV restoration
goal for DIP (Figure 4-6). Thirty percent of the
area in each of the Delaware systems exceeded
that goal; in contrast, only 1% of the area in
Assawoman Bay was above the DIP SAV
restoration goal.

Mean concentrations of particulate nitrogen,
carbon, and phosphorus were significantly higher
in Assawoman Bay than in the other three major
subsystems (Table 4-2). Levels were lowest in
Chincoteague Bay, where they were about three
times lower than in Assawoman Bay.

4.2.5 SAV Restoration Goals

Less than 25% of the area in the coastal bays
met all of the SAV restoration goals (Figure
4-7). This percentage was significantly higher in
Chincoteague Bay, which is the only major
subsystem with substantial SAV currently
growing (Orth et al.  1994, Orth and Moore
1988), than any of the other coastal bays
systems (Figure 4-8). The percentage was
lowest in Assawoman Bay, where none of the
sampled locations met all of the SAV restoration
goals.

Two of the SAV restoration goal parameters,
TSS and light attenuation coefficient, are
strongly influenced by physical mixing
characteristics of the system and are not easily
controlled by management action. The action of
the  wind and waves combined with the average
shallow depth and poor flushing characteristics
of the coastal bays cause the bays to retain and
resuspend fine sediments, making the water
turbid. Because of this, the amount of area in
the  system meeting SAV goals was reassessed
considering only the parameters that are most
controllable by management actions: chlorophyll
a, DIN, and DIP. When examined in this
fashion, almost half the area in the coastal bays
still fails to meet the goals; however, the
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area which met the SAY restoration goals.  Cross-hatched bars represent sites where all goals
attributes were met; clear bars represent sites where a subset of attributes were met, with height of
the bar proportional to the number of attributes failed; and solid bars represent sites where no
attributes were met.
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 proportion of area in Chincoteague Bay which
 meets the goals for the three attributes increases
 to more than 80% (Figure 4-9).

 4.3 TARGET AREAS

 4.3.1 Measures of Algal Productivity

 Mean concentrations of chlorophyll a were
 significantly higher in all special target areas
 than in thefstudy area as a whole (Table 4-2).
 Trappe Creek/Newport Bay had the highest
 concentration, four times that of the entire study
 area.  At least two sites in the upper portion of
 Trappe Creek had concentrations of chlorophyll
 a exceeding 350 \a g/1 (Figure 4-10); algal
 blooms were evident at both sites. Mean
 phaeophytin concentration patterns differed,
 however, with average concentrations two to
 four times higher  in the other systems than in
 Trappe Creek/Newport Bay.

 More than 70% of the area in upper Indian
 River, St. Martin River, and the dead-end canals
 had chlorophyll a  concentrations exceeding 15 \i
 g/1 (Figure 4-11)). Almost the  entire area of
 upper Indian River had levels exceeding 15 n g/1;
 more than 50% of the area exceeded 30 [i g/1.

 Average measured concentrations of benthic
 chlorophyllin most of the special target areas
 were similar to the average concentration in the
 entire study area (Table 4-2). The dead-end
 canals were a large exception to the results;
 average concentrations of benthic chlorophyll
were more than five times larger in the canals
than in the remaining study area.
 4.3.2  Dissolved Oxygen

 Except for the dead-end canals, mean
 concentrations of DO in the special target areas
 did not vary appreciably from the average DO
 concentration in the entire study area (Table
 4-2). The canals had a mean dissolved
 concentration less than 4 ppm, significantly lower
 than the entire study area.

 Differences in DO concentrations were more
 pronounced when evaluated by proportion of
 area. The percentage of area with DO less than
 the state standard of 5 ppm was three to seven
 times greater in the special target areas than in
 the entire study area (Figure 4-12).  Dead-end
 canals were the most hypoxic systems. More
 than 55% of the area in dead-end canals had DO
 less than 5  ppm; more than 30% of that area had
 concentrations less than 2 ppm.

 4.3.3 Measures of Water Clarity

 Water clarity and TSS did not differ
 significantly between any of the special target
 areas and the coastal bays as a whole (Table
 4-2). The pattern was similar when looking at
 the proportion of area with TSS concentrations
 greater than the SAV restoration goal of 15 mg/
 1. The percentages for all special target areas,
 except dead-end canals, were slightly higher than
 for the entire  study area, but the differences
 were not statistically significant.
4.3.4 Nutrients

Mean concentrations of nitrate/nitrite varied
considerably among special target areas, ranging
from 0.10 to 9.15 n M (Table 4-2).  St. Martin
River had the lowest concentration; upper Indian
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 Delaware/Maryland coastal bays study area. Black-shaded bars represent concentrations which
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concentrations were significantly different than
the average for the entire study area. Upper
Indian River also had a significantly higher
average concentration of ammonium than the
entire study area.

Average DIN did not vary appreciably between
three of the four special target areas and the
entire study area, but upper Indian River had
significantly greater levels, more than three
times higher than the entire study area and the
other three systems (Table 4-2). The proportion
of area that failed to meet the SAV restoration
goal for DIN was more than 50% in upper
Indian River, almost three times greater than in
the remaining coastal bays (Figure 4-13).

All special target areas  had mean concentrations
of total dissolved nitrogen greater than the    ,
average for the entire study area; however, only
Trappe Creek/Newport Bay and upper Indian
River were significantly higher then the entire
study area (Table 4-2).

Mean concentrations  of DIP in the upper Indian
River, St. Martin River, and the dead-end canals
were similar to the mean for the entire study
area (Table 4-2). The mean concentration in
Trappe Creek/Newport Bay was twice as high
as the mean for the entire study area, but the
difference was not statistically significant.  The
pattern was somewhat different when expressed
as areal extent. Both upper Indian River and
Trappe Creek/Newport Bay had approximately
twice the proportion of area with DIP
concentrations greater than 0.67 ji M, compared
to the entire study area  (Figure 4-14).

The  mean concentration of particulate nitrogen,
phosphorus, and carbon were all significantly
 higher in the special target areas than in the
 coastal bays as a whole (Table 4-2). No
 significant differences among the special target
 areas were found for any of the particulate
 parameters (Table 4-2).

 4.3.5  SAV Restoration Goals

 None of the samples collected in the special
 target areas met the SAV restoration goals.
 Even when considering only the nitrogen,
 phosphorus, and chlorophyll goals, less than
 20% of the area in three of the systems met the
 goals (Figure 4-15).
 4.4 COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUS
 STUDIES

 Consistent with previous characterizations of the
 coastal bays (Weston 1993, Boynton et al.
 1993), we found moderate eutrophication in the
 system with the highest nutrient-chlorophyll
 concentrations occurring in the tributaries.
 Consistent with Weston (1993), we observed a
 significant inverse salinity:nutrient correlation,
 suggesting that the tributaries are a significant
 nutrient source for the coastal bays. While we
 found eutrophication to be widespread in the
 coastal bays, we found that eutrophication has
 not translated into a widespread hypoxia
'problem. Oxygen concentrations less than 5 ppm
 were observed in only 8% of the area of the
 coastal bays, though it was as high as 25% in
 upper Indian River and St. Martin River. This is
 consistent with previous studies in which
 concentrations of dissolved oxygen less than 5
 ppm were rarely measured and were spatially
 limited to known target areas of management
 concern.
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The amount of hypoxic area in the coastal bays
may be underestimated because our
measurements were limited to daytime hours.  A
part of this study, continuously recording
dissolved oxygen meters were deployed for up
to three weeks at 15 sites in the coastal bays.
Detailed analyses of those data will be a future
part of the joint assessment, but initial
observations are that diurnal oxygen patterns in
the coastal bays, with the exception of Trappe
Creek are small. This is consistent with historic
diurnal measurements in the coastal bays
(Boynton et al. 1993) and suggests that our
spatial estimate of hypoxia in the coastal bays  is
not a severe underestimate.

The apparent conflict between widespread
eutrophication, as measured by the SAV
Restoration Goals, and the apparent limited
spatial extent of hypoxia may be explained by
the physical characteristics of the system. The
coastal bays are shallow and well mixed, which
serves to reaerate the system quickly. The
presence of hypoxia under these conditions, as
occurs in 25% of the area in St. Martin River
and upper Indian River, is indicative of
substantial eutrophication concern.

While it was not the goal of this report to assess
historical data for trend analysis, both previous
characterizations of the coastal bays (Weston
1993, Boynton et al. 1993) noted that both
chlorophyll and nutrient concentrations have
declined throughout the coastal bays during the
last two decades. Our data are consistent with
that pattern. Summer chlorophyll
concentrations in the Maryland coastal bays
have declined by more than 50% since 1975
(Figure 4-16) and similar declines have occurred
in the Delaware coastal bays (Lacoutre and
Sellner 1988).  Nitrogen concentrations in our
study were approximately one-half of the values
reported by Boynton et al. (1993) and Weston
(1993) for historic studies, consistent with
Weston's suggestion that nitrogen inputs to the
system have declined during the last two
decades.  While these temporal patterns are
consistent across a number of studies and
parameters, more extensive examination of these
trends needs to be conducted to ensure that the
concentration differences observed among years
do not result from inconsistencies in sampling
design or measurement methodologies.


4.5 COMPARISON TO
SURROUNDING SYSTEMS

Nutrient concentrations are not measured
typically as part of the EMAP sampling and
comparisons of these parameters to other
Delaware and Chesapeake data sets is beyond
the scope of this data summary report.  Recent
assessment reports by the Chesapeake Bay
Program (Magnien et al. 1995) have identified
that about 75% of the area in Chesapeake Bay
meets the SAV restoration goals, which is triple
the proportion of area in the coastal bays. In
Chesapeake Bay, 90% of the area meets four of
the five SAV goal attributes, whereas only 32%
of the area in the coastal bays meets the same
goals. The Chesapeake Bay estimate is not
based on probability-based sampling and may
include multiple months of data for each site.
Thus, the estimate may not be directly
comparable to that from this study, but  the
magnitude of  the difference between estimates
for the systems appears to transcend minor
methodological differences between studies.
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                        5.0 SEDIMENT CONTAMINANTS
5.1 INTRODUCTION

The scientific and popular presses have identified
the presence of contaminants in estuaries as a
problem contributing to degraded ecological
resources and concerns about the safety of
consuming fish and shellfish (Broutman and
Leonard 1988, NOAA 1990, OTA 1987,
O'Connor 1990). Reducing contaminant inuts
and concentrations, therefore, is often a major
focus of regulatory programs for estuaries.
Contaminants include inorganic (metals) and
organic chemicals originating from many sources
such as atmospheric deposition, freshwater
inputs, land runoff, and point sources. These
sources are poorly characterized except in the
most well-studied estuaries. Most contaminants
that are potentially toxic to biological resources
tend to bind to particles and ultimately are
deposited in the bottom of estuaries (Santschi et
al. 1980, Santschi 1984). This binding removes
contaminants from the water column.
Consequently, contaminants accumulate in
estuarine sediments (Santschi et al.  1984).

Because of the complex nature of sediment
geochemistry, and possible additive, synergistic,
and antagonistic interactions among multiple
pollutants, the ecological impact of elevated
contaminant levels in bottom sediments is not
well understood.  Several strategies for
estimating biological effects from contaminated
sediments include the EPA Sediment Quality
Criteria approach (U.S. EPA 1993a-d), the Long
and Morgan approach (Long and Morgan 1990,'
Long et al. 1995), and the SEM/AVS
(simultaneously extracted metals/acid volatile
sulfides) approach (DiToro et al. 1989,1990 and
1992).  Because these various techniques result
in different estimates, definitive estimates of
those areas of the coastal bays with contaminant
concentration high enough to cause ecological
impacts cannot be provided with confidence .
(Strobel et al. 1995). For this reason, the
analyses presented in this Section are provided
for screening purposes only.

The guideline values developed by Long and
Morgan (1990) and recently updated by Long et
al. (1995) were used to screen contaminant
levels in coastal bay sediments with respect to
potential biological effects. These values were
selected because they  include values for most of
the chemicals we measured, thus allowing us to
provide the most complete evaluation of the data.
Two values were  identified for each
contaminant:  an effects range-low (ER-L) value
corresponding to contaminant concentrations
below which adverse effects to benthic
organisms "rarely" occur, and an effects  range-
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Table 5-1. ER-L and ER-M guideline values for trace metals and organic compounds in
sediments. Sources: Long and Morgan (1990), Long et al. (1995).
Chemical
Arialyte
Trace Elements (ppm)
Antimony
Arsenic
Cadmium
Chromium
Copper
Lead
Mercury
Nickel
Silver
Zinc
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (ppb)
Total PCBs
DDT and Metabolites (ppb)
DDT
ODD
DDE
Total DDT
PPDDE
Other Pesticides (ppb) .
Chlordane
Dieldrin
Endrin ,
Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (ppb)
Acenaphthene
Acenaphthylene
PAH (high mol.wt.)
PAH (low mol. wt.)
.Anthracene
Berizo(a)anthracene .
Benzo(a)pyrene
Chrysene
Dibenz(a,h)anthracene
Fluoranthene
Fluorene
2-methylnaphthalene
Naphthalene
Phenanthrene
Pyrene
TotalPAH
ER-L
Concentration

2
8.2
1.2
81
34
46.7
0.15
20.9
1
150

22.7

1
2
2
1.58
2.2

0.5
0.02
0.02

16
44
1700
552
85.3
261
430
384
63.4
600
19
70
160
240
665
4022
ER-M
Concentration

25 •
70
9.6
370
270
218
0.71
51.6
3.7
410

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15
46.1
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640
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3160
1100
1600
1600
2800
260
5100
540
670
2100
1500
2600
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                    Rehoboth Bay
                     Indian River
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contaminants were analyzed. Bar height is directly proportional to number of sediment
contaminants which exceeded ER-L threshold concentrations. Asterisk indicates sites where a
contaminant exceeded ER-M concentration.
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Table 5-2. Area-weighted mean concentrations (± 90% C.I.) of sediment contaminants in the
Coastal Bays and Dead-End Canals

Metals (ppm)
Silver
Arsenic
Cadmium
Chromium
Copper
Lead
Nickel
Zinc
Pesticides (ppb)
Chlordane
Total DDT
Lindane
Mirex
Endrin
Dieldrin
Total PAHs (ppb)
Total PCBs (ppb)
Coastal Bays

0.05 ± 0.02
7.03 ± 1.91
0.14 ± 0.05
41.98 ± 10.58
9.52 ± 2.81
24.14 ± 5.83
13.93 ± 4.65
64.53 ± 16.35

0.41 ± 0.39
2.15 ± 0.87
0.20 ± 0.15
0.12 ± 0.17
0.04 ± 0.02
0.13 ± 0.07
232.33 ± 92.43
2.89 ±1.04
Dead-end Canals

0.1 ± <0.1
10.6 ± 2
0.2 ± < 0.1
56.1 ± 21.7
40.6 ± 10.3
34.4 ± 6.6
21.1 ± 9.2
107.9 ± ,28.9

1.8± 0.7
3.1 ± 2.9
0.9± 0.2
0
0.5 ± 0.1
1.7± 1.8
2060.9 ± 1099.7
19.8 ± 5.5
median (ER-M) concentration above which
adverse effects "frequently" occur (Long et al.
1995). Adverse effects could be expected to
"occasionally" occur when the measured
concentration falls between the ER-L and ER-M
(Long et al. 1995). According to Long and
Morgan (1990), sites with the greatest number of
ER-L and ER-M exceedences have the highest
potential for cause adverse biological effects. In
those situations where there is a high potential
for adverse effects based upon exceedences of
ER-Ls and ER-Ms, EPA and others have
suggested follow-up testing such as solid phase
toxicity testing to directly measure biological
effects (Adams et al. 1992, Chapman et al. 1992,
EPA 1992). Future activities may include these
additional analyses.

Only a subset of the sediment samples collected
were processed for contaminants because of
cost constraints. Consequently, comparisons
were limited to dead-end canals (10 sites) and
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 the coastal bays as a whole (24 sites).
 at single, separate sites (Figure 5-1).
 5.2 CONDITION OF THE COASTAL
 BAYS

 At least 1 contaminant exceeded its ER-L
 concentration at 70% of the 24 sites in the
 coastal bays (excluding sites in the dead-end
 canals) where contaminant samples were
 processed. This corresponded to 68% (+ 23%)
 of the total area of the system. Only four sites
 (representing 4% of the area in the system) had
 at least one contaminant that exceeded its ER-M
 concentration.

 Many sites had more than one contaminant that
 exceeded its ER-L concentration. A dead-end
 canal on the east side of Assawoman Bay
 contained the most contaminants that exceeded
 their ER-L concentrations (20). The number of
 contaminants that exceeded ER-L in the coastal
 bays increased from south to north. Indian River
 had the most sites with multiple contaminants
 exceeding ER-L and had one site with a
 contaminant exceeding ER-M (Figure 5-1). The
 majority of sites in Rehoboth Bay with multiple
 contaminants were located in dead-end canals.
 Five of the seven sites in Rehoboth Bay were
 canal sites containing more then five
 contaminants exceeding ER-L concentrations.

 The most ubiquitous contaminants (measured as
 the estimated area in which the contaminant
 exceeded its ER-L concentration), were DDT,
 arsenic, and nickel, with each found to exceed
 ER-L in more than a quarter of the bottom of the
 area of the system (Figure 5-2). DDT and its
 principal metabolites were 4 of the top 10
 contaminants.  The only ER-M concentration
 exceedances were for chlordane, dieldrin, DDE,
 and benzo(a)anthracene, which were exceeded
 In this study, Long et al. (1995) and Long and
 Morgan (1990) ER-L and ER-M thresholds were
 used as a means of estimating the areal extent of
 contaminants in the coastal bays; however, other
 authors have suggested alternative approaches
 for identifying thresholds of biological concern
 (DiToro et al. 1990,1991,1992; EPA 1993).
 Long et al. values were selected because they
 included thresholds for most of the chemicals
 that we measured, allowing us to provide an
 integrated contaminant response, whereas other
 approaches for identifying thresholds have been
 developed for a relatively small number of
 chemicals. These alternative thresholds, when
 applied to the coastal bays  data set, lead  to a
 smaller estimate of areal extent (Greene  1995),
 suggesting that the ER-L thresholds are more
 protective of the environment. Future CBJA
 activities may include analyses to relate the
 biological responses reported in this chapter with
 the sediment contaminant data reported here.


 5.3  CONDITION OF DEAD-END
 CANALS

 Concentrations of contaminants generally were
 higher in the sediments of dead-end canals than
 in the rest of the coastal bays. Fifteen of the 45
 contaminants measured had significantly higher
 mean concentrations in the  canals. No
 contaminants had significantly higher
 concentrations in the rest of the coastal bays
 than  in the canals (Table 5-2). The difference in
concentration between canals and the coastal
bays was greatest for the polynuclear aromatic
hydrocarbons (e.g., chrysene and pyrene); the
concentrations of many of these contaminants
were 10 times higher in the dead-end canals than
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 in the rest of the coastal bays (Appendix C).

 The difference between the dead-end canals and
 the rest of the coastal bays was also apparent in
 the spatial extent of contamination. Of the five
 most ubiquitous contaminants in the coastal bays,
 none exceeded ER-L concentrations for more
 than 42% of the total area of the coastal bays;
 however, these contaminants each exceeded their
 ER-L concentrations in more than 70% of the
 area of the dead-end canals (Figure 5-2).
 Seventy-five percent of the area of dead-end
 canals had more than six contaminants that
 exceeded their ER-L concentrations (Figure 5-3).
 In contrast, only 10% of the area in the rest of
 coastal bays had more than five contaminants
 above ER-L, and 30% had no contaminants that
 exceeded ER-L concentrations.

 5.4 COMPARISONTO PREVIOUS
 STUDIES

 The Delaware/Maryland coastal bays study
 represents to the best of our knowledge the first
 substantive assessment of sediment contaminants
 in the coastal bays. Although only a subset of the
 sediment samples collected for contaminant
 analysis were processed, the data presented in
 this report represent a ten-fold increase in
 available data over the last  15 years. No data
 were reported in the Delaware Inland Bays
 Estuary Program's characterization report
 (Weston 1993) because the data found were
 insufficient for a status determination.  The
 Maryland report (Boynton et al. 1993) contained
 three years of data for a single site at
 Chincoteague Inlet, VA. Three-year average
concentrations were found to be elevated relative
to detection levels but only dieldrin was measured
at concentrations of biological concern (NOAA
 1991).
5.5 COMPARISONTO
SURROUNDING SYSTEMS

Sixty-eight percent of the area in the coastal
bays had at least one sediment contaminant
exceeding the Long et al. (1995) ER-L
concentration, which is a threshold of biological
concern. This was significantly greater than the
spatial extent which was observed for the same
threshold of concern in either Chesapeake Bay
(46%) or Delaware  Bay (34%).
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             6.0  BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES
6.1 BACKGROUND
Benthic assemblages have many attributes that
make them reliable and sensitive indicators of
ecological condition (Bilyard 1987). Benthic
macroinvertebrates live in sediments, where
exposure to contaminants and low concentrations
of dissolved oxygen generally is most severe.
Their relative immobility prevents benthic
organisms from avoiding exposure to pollutants
and other environmental disturbances (Gray
1982). Benthic assemblages are composed of a
diverse array of species that display a wide
range of physiological tolerances and respond to
multiple kinds of stress (Pearson and Rosenberg
1978, Rhoads et al. 1978, Boesch and Rosenberg
1981). The life spans of benthic
macroinvertebrates are long enough (a few
months to several years) to enable researchers
to measure population- and community-level
responses to environmental stress (Wass 1967).
This combination of attributes enables benthic
assemblages to integrate environmental
conditions prevalent during the weeks and
months before a sampling event.

Four measures  of biological response were used
to evaluate the condition of benthic assemblages
in the coastal bays of Delaware and Maryland:
abundance, biomass, diversity, and the EMAP
benthic index. Abundance and biomass are
measures of total biological activity at a location.
The diversity of benthic organisms supported by
the habitat at a location often is considered a
measure of the relative "health" of the
environment.  Diversity was evaluated using the
number of species (i.e., species richness) at a
location and the Shannon-Wiener diversity index,
which incorporates both species richness and
evenness components (Shannon and Weaver
1949). The EMAP benthic index integrates
measures of species richness, species
composition, andbiomass/abundance ratio into a
single value that distinguishes between sites of
good or poor ecological condition (Schimmel et
al. 1994). A value of 0 or less denotes a
degraded site at which the structure of the
benthic community is poor, and the number of
species, abundance of selected indicator species,
and mean biomass are small.

6.2 MAJOR SUBSYSTEMS

6.2.1  Abundance and Biomass

Indian River had significantly more benthic
invertebrates than any of the other three major
subsystems (Table 6-1). Much of  this difference
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was due to a greater number of amphipods.
Amphipods accounted for about 50% of total
abundance in the coastal bays as a whole;
however, in Indian River, amphipods accounted
for more than 75% of total abundance (Figure
6-1). Biomass followed a different pattern than
abundance among the major subsystems.
Biomass was greatest in Chincoteague Bay and
smallest in Indian River (Table 6-1). The very
small ratio of biomass to abundance observed in
Indian River often is associated with degraded
habitat (Wilson and Jeffrey 1994).

6.2.2 Species Richness and Diversity

The average number of species was significantly
higher and about 50% greater in Chincoteague
Bay than in any of the other three major
subsystems (Table 6-1). Species diversity as
measured by the Shannon-Wiener diversity index
was significantly greater in Chincoteague than in
Rehoboth. and Indian River, but the difference
between Chincoteague and Assawoman was not
statistically significant.  The presence of several
rare species that did not contribute significantly
to the Shannon-Wiener index for Chincoteague
Bay was responsible for the smaller difference in
diversity than in number of species between
Chincoteague Bay and the other major
subsystems.

6.2.3 EMAP  Benthic Index

Based on mean EMAP benthic index values,
benthic communities in Indian River were
degraded and in significantly worse condition
than in any of the other major subsystems.
Benthic communities in Chincoteague Bay were
nondegraded and in significantly better condition
than in any other system (Table 6-1). The
average index in Rehoboth Bay indicated
significant degradation of benthic communities;
Assawoman Bay was nondegraded.

The estimated proportion of degraded area in the
major subsystems ranged from 77% in Indian
River to 11% in Chincoteague Bay (Figure 6-2).
Indian River had a significantly higher proportion
of degraded area than any of the other systems.
Chincoteague Bay had a significantly smaller
proportion of degraded area than Rehoboth Bay
(Figures 6-2 and 6-3). The difference in
proportion of degraded area between
Chincoteague and Assawoman was not
statistically significant. Although the average
index value indicated that Rehoboth Bay was
degraded, the difference in proportion of
nondegraded area between Rehoboth and
Assawoman was not statistically significant.

6.3 TARGET AREAS

6.3.1 Abundance and Biomass

Abundance and biomass were an order of
magnitude less in dead-end canals than in the
rest of the coastal bays (Table 6-1). The
composition of benthic communities in the dead-
end canals differed substantially from the
composition in the rest of the coastal bays.
Amphipods constituted almost 50% of the
benthos throughout the coastal bays; however,
approximately 85% of the benthos collected in
dead-end canals were polychaetes (Figure 6-4),
of which 90%  were  Streblespio  benedicti
(Appendix C), a pollution-tolerant species
(Ranasinghe et al. 1994). Bivalves, which are
generally less pollution tolerant, constituted 12%
of the benthos  in the rest of the coastal bays as
a whole, but less than 5% of that in each of the
special target areas.  Differences in species
composition between the dead-end canals and
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 the rest of the coastal bays are reflected in the
 significantly lower biomass in the dead-end
 canals. Approximately 81% of the area in dead-
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 bays (Figure 6-5).


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 dead-end canals all had significantly fewer
 species per sample than the rest of the coastal
 bays (Table 6-1). The difference was
 particularly notable in dead-end canals, where
 the number of species was nearly seven times
 less than in the entire study area and
 approximately five or six times less than in any of
 the other special target areas. Whereas, 70% of
 the area in the coastal bays had at least 20
 species per 440 cm2 grab, 78% of the area in the
 canals produced less than 5 species per sample
 (Figure 6-6).

 Similar patterns were observed with the
 Shannon-Wiener diversity index; the values for
 the upper Indian River, St. Martin River, and the
 dead-end canals all were significantly lower than
 for the entire study area. The index value for the
 dead-end canals was five times lower than for
 the entire study area and three to four times
 lower than for the other special target areas.
 Diversity in Trappe Creek/Newport Bay did not
 differ significantly from diversity in the rest of
 the coastal bays but was low in the Trappe
 Creek portion of this stratum.
 of the coastal bays (Table 6-1, Figure 6-3). The
 index value for Trappe Creek/ Newport Bay was
 not significantly different than the value for the
 rest of the coastal bays, but the Trappe Creek
 portion of the stratum, where pollution sources
 Were most prevalent historically, was degraded.

 The extent of degradation was greatest in the
 dead-end canals and upper Indian River. More
 than 80% of the area of these two systems had
 degraded benthic communities as measured by
 the EMAP benthic index (Figures 6-7 and 6-3);
 this proportion was significantly greater than in
 the rest of the coastal bays.


 6.4 COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUS
 STUDIES

 Recent characterizations of the coastal bays
 (Boynton et al. 1993, Weston 1993) made little
 use of benthic macroinvertebrates in their
 assessment. The principal limitations they cited
 were that most benthic data for these systems
 were collected more than 20 years ago and were
 spatially limited. Moreover, the sampling efforts
 were conducted primarily to characterize species
 composition and habitat distribution, and did not
 focus on using benthos as indicators of ecological
 condition. Thus, this report represents  the first
 ecological assessment of benthic invertebrate
 condition in the Maryland/Delaware coastal
 bays.

 Comparisons to these historical studies  is difficult
 because of differences in sampling gear and
 because original data are no longer available.
The most comprehensive characterization of the
system was conducted by Maurer (1977), but he
used a 1 mm sieve which is not easily
comparable to our 0.5 mm sieve. DP&L (1976)
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conducted the most comprehensive historic study
in Indian River, one that used the same sieve size
as the coastal bays study. Mean invertebrate
density in their study was almost an order of
magnitude less than in our study for both the
upper Indian River and the entire Indian River.
Average species density did not vary appreciably
between the two studies. The 1993 benthic
community in Indian River was dominated by
amphipods, which accounted for 75% of the total
abundance. In the polyhaline stratum of the
DP&L study, percent abundance was equally
divided among polychaetes, amphipods, and
bivalve molluscs. Together, these differences
suggest that the quality of the benthic community
has changed in the last two decades, but more
substantial analyses based on original, rather than
summarized, historic data are required to better
characterize these changes.
6.5 COMPARISON TO
SURROUNDING SYSTEMS

Benthic invertebrate communities may be in
poorer condition in the coastal bays than in
either Chesapeake or Delaware Bays.
Twenty-eight percent of the area in the coastal
bays had degraded benthic communities as
measured by EMAP's benthic index. Using the
same sampling methods and benthic index, 26%
of the area in Chesapeake Bay and 16% of the
area in Delaware Bay had degraded benthos.
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                                7.0  CONCLUSIONS
The probability-based sampling design used in
the Delaware/Maryland coastal bays joint
assessment allows for two types of estimates
that were not previously available for these
systems. First, it allows estimation of areal
extent of selected indicators exceeding threshold
levels of concern to managers. Second, it allows
unbiased comparisons among various subsystems
of the coastal bays, since the same sampling
design, sampling methodologies and quality
assurance/quality control procedures were
employed throughout the study area. The results
of the study support the following conclusions:

1. Major portions of the coastal bays have
degraded environmental quality.

Major portions of the coastal bays were found to
have degraded environmental conditions.
Twenty-eight percent of the  area in the coastal
bays had degraded benthic communities, as
measured by EMAP's benthic index.  More than
75% of the area in the coastal bays failed the
Chesapeake Bay Program's Submersed  Aquatic
Vegetation (SAV) restoration goals, which are a
combination of measures that integrate nutrient,
chlorophyll, and water clarity parameters. Most
areas failed numerous SAV goal attributes.
About 40% of the area failed the nutrient and
chlorophyll components of the SAV Restoration
 Goals. Sixty-eight percent of the area in the
 coastal bays had at least one sediment
 contaminant with concentrations exceeding
 published guidelines for protection of benthic
 organisms (Long and Morgan 1990, Long et al.
 1995). Further study is needed to assess
 whether the biological effects we observed are
 the direct result of contamination.

 2. Eutrophication threatens recolonization
 of SAV in  the coastal bays, but is not severe
 enough to  cause  widespread hypoxia.

 Eutrophication, as measured by the SAV
 restoration goals, is widespread in the coastal
 bays. With the exception of some limited areas
 of management concern, eutrophication has not
 yet resulted in a severe hypoxia problem that
 threatens biota.  Oxygen concentrations less than
 5 ppm were measured in only 8% of the study
 area, though it was as high as 25% of the study
 area in Indian River and St. Martin River.
 Oxygen concentrations less than 2 ppm were
 measured only in dead-end canals. This is
consistent with previous studies, in which
concentrations of dissolved oxygen less than 5
ppm  were measured rarely and were spatially
 limited to known areas of management concern.
While we measured only 8% of the area as
hypoxic, this amount may be larger during
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 nighttime hours and is a significant amount of
 area, given the shallow, well-mixed nature of the
 system.

 3. The sediment contaminants detected in
 this study  are primarily persistent
 chlorinated hydrocarbons and are probably a
 remnant of historic inputs.

 The sediment contaminants detected in this study
 are primarily persistent pesticides, such as DDT,
 chlordane, and dieldrin, that are no longer
 commercially available or are strongly regulated,
 and whose input into the system has undoubtedly
 declined. The prevalence of these chemicals in
 the sediments probably result, to a large extent,
 from the unique physical characteristics of the
 coastal bays: (1) land use in the coastal bays is
 largely agricultural, and a source of non-point
 pollution; (2) the system has a large perimeter to
 area ratio, enhancing the potential impact of
 non-point source inputs; and (3) the low flushing
 rate of the system enhances the likelihood that
 chemicals entering the system will be retained in
 the system for long periods of time.

 4. Chincoteague  Bay is in the best condition
 of the major subsystems within the coastal
 bays  Indian River is in the worst condition.

 Of the four major  subsystems that comprise the
 coastal bays, Chincoteague Bay was in the best
 cpndition. Only 11% of the area in
 Chincoteague Bay had degraded benthos.
Almost 45% of the area in Chincoteague Bay
met the Chesapeake Bay Program's SAV
restoration goals, a figure which increased to
almost 85% when only the nutrient and
chlorophyll components of the goals were
 considered. In comparison, 77% of the area in
 Indian River had degraded benthos and less than
 10% of its area met the SAV restoration goals.

 5.  The tributaries to the coastal bays are in
 poorer condition than the mainstems  of the
 major subsystems.

 Previous studies have suggested that the major
 tributaries to the system: upper Indian River, St.
 Martin River, and Trappe Creek are in poorer
 condition than the mainstem water bodies. Our
 study confirms that finding. The percentage of
 area containing degraded benthos was generally
 two to three times greater in the tributaries
 compared to the other coastal bays. The percent
 of area with DO less than the state standard of 5
 ppm was three to seven times greater in the
 tributaries. More than 70% of the area in upper
 Indian River and St. Martin River and in the
 dead-end canals had chlorophyll a concentrations
 exceeding the SAV goal of 15  pig/1. None of the
 samples collected in the tributaries met  the SAV
 restoration goals.

 Among these systems, Trappe Creek contained
 the sites in the worst condition. Two sites in the
 upper portion of Trappe Creek had
 concentrations of chlorophyll a exceeding 350
 (j.g/1; algal blooms were evident at each site. In
 addition, dissolved oxygen levels exceeding 14
 ppm were measured at both sites. It appears,
 however, that degraded conditions in the Trappe
 Creek system are spatially limited to Trappe
 Creek and have not spread to Newport Bay.
Undoubtedly, this results from the low
freshwater flow from this tributary compared to
the other tributaries.

6. Dead-end canals are the  most severely
degraded areas in the coastal bays.
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Ninety-one percent of the area in dead-end
canals had sediment contaminant concentrations
exceeding published guideline values. Fifty-six
percent of their area had dissolved oxygen
concentrations less than state standards of 5
ppm. Canals were the only locations from all the
coastal bays sites where concentrations less than
2 ppm were measured.  These stresses appear
to have biological consequences: more than 85%
of the area in the dead-end canals had degraded
benthic communities. Dead-end canals averaged
fewer than 4 benthic species per sample
compared to 26 species per sample in the
remaining portions of the coastal bays.

7. Based on percent areal extent, the
coastal bays are in as poor or worse
condition than either  Chesapeake Bay or
Delaware Bay with respect to sediment
contaminant levels, water quality, and
benthic macroinvertebrate community
condition.

The consistency of the sampling design and
methodologies between our study and EMAP
allows unbiased comparison of conditions in the
coastal bays with that in other major estuarine
systems in EPA Region III that are sampled by
EMAP.  Based on comparison to EMAP data
collected between 1990 and 1993, the coastal
bays were found to have a similar or higher
frequency of degraded benthic communities than
surrounding systems.  Twenty-eight percent of
the area in the coastal bays had degraded
benthic communities as measured by EMAP's
benthic index, which was significantly greater
than the 16% EMAP estimated for Delaware
Bay using the same methods and same index,
and was statistically indistinguishable from the
26% estimated for Chesapeake Bay. The
coastal bays also had a prevalence of chemical
contamination in the sediments that was higher
than in either Chesapeake Bay or Delaware
Bay. Sixty-eight percent of the area in the
coastal frays exceeded published 'guideline values
for at least one' contaminant, compared to 46%
for Chesapeake Bay and 34% for Delaware Bay
(Long and Morgan 1990, Long et al. 1995).
While the percent of area having poor benthic
and sediment conditions is higher in the coastal
bays, the absolute amount of area having these
conditions is greater in the Delaware and
Chesapeake Bays, because of their larger size.

Nutrients were not measured by EMAP and
statistically unbiased estimates  of average
concentrations are unavailable for either
Chesapeake or Delaware Bays. The
Chesapeake Bay Program, though, recently
estimated that about 75% of the area in
Chesapeake Bay meets SAV Restoration Goals.
This is more than three times the percent of area
meeting SAV Restoration Goals in the coastal
bays. Even when the turbidity and TSS
components of the SAV Restoration Goals,
which are naturally high in shallow systems, are
ignored, almost half of the area in the coastal
bays, or twice that in Chesapeake Bay, still fails
the SAV Restoration Goal estimates for nutrients
and chlorophyll.

8. The fish assemblages in Maryland's
coastal bays have remained relatively
unchanged during the past twenty years,
while those of similar systems  in Delaware
have changed substantially.

Fish assemblages of the Maryland coastal bays,
as sampled by shallow-water seines, are
dominated by Atlantic silversides, bay anchovy,
Atlantic menhaden, and spot. This assemblage is
similar to that of the Delaware coastal bays 35
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 years ago. The fish fauna in Delaware's coastal
 bays has shifted toward species of the Family
 Cyprinodontidae (e.g., killifish and sheepshead
 minnow) which are more tolerant to low oxygen
 stress, and salinity and temperature extremes.
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             APPENDIX A
 1993 Delaware Fish Seine Study and Comparison
   to Delaware and Maryland Historical Studies
            Contributing Authors:

     Kent S. Price and Maryellen Timmons
University of Delaware, College of Marine Studies

      Cecelia C. Linder, James F. Casey,
        Steve Doctor, and Alan Wesche
   Maryland Department of Natural Resources

              Jariis C. Chaillou
                Versar, Inc.
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                            DELAWARE COASTAL BAYS
                   SHORE ZONE FISH COMMUNITY TRENDS
                      Kent S. Price1, Maryellen Timmons1, and Janjs C. Chaillou2
                                          January 1996


                                     INTRODUCTION

The general purpose of this study was to examine historical and current shore-zone fish community data to
determine whether perceived changes in the fish community could be related to spatial or temporal trends in water
quality in Delaware and Maryland's coastal inland bays.  Generally, studies in fresh water have shown that
moderate eutrophication increases fish biomass, but may shift the composition of the fish community from
desirable colder water fish to rough fish such as carp (Lee, et al., 1991). The mechanism underlying the shift in
community structure is poorly understood, but Lee, et al. (1991) suggests that it is related to such factors as
reduced grazing ability of predatory fish brought about by increased turbidity from  increased  amounts of
phytoplankton.  Almost no studies of this type have been conducted for estuarine fish.  Price, et al. (1985)
suggested that the depression of striped bass stocks in the Chesapeake Bay may be related to eutrophication
through (1) loss of habitat for adult fish through reductions in dissolved oxygen in deeper waters and (2) loss of
habitat for juvenile fish through eutrophication mediated reductions in submerged aquatic vegetation.  Price (U.S.
EPA, 1983) also proposed that nutrient and toxic enrichment of low-salinity spawning and nursery areas may be
related to declines in anadromous (fresh water) spawning estuarine species such as striped bass, white perch,
yellow perch, herring, and others.
   1   University of Delaware, College of Marine Studies, Lewes, DE

   2   Versar, Inc., Columbia, MD

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                             THE SETTING IN DELAWARE
 Delaware's inland bays (Fig. 1) consist of three
 interconnected water bodies—Rehoboth, Indian
 River, and Little Assawomari bays. The inland
 bays have a drainage area of about 300 square
 miles, a water surface area of 32 square miles, a
 marsh area of 9 square miles, a mean-low-water
 volume of 4 billion cubic feet, and a freshwater
 discharge of 300 cubic feet per second. Almost
 30 square miles of the inland bays are classified as
 shellfish waters, of which 19 square miles
 presently are approved for shellfishing. There are
 about 126 people per square mile  of the inland
 bays watershed, and the land is about 10 percent
 urban, 44 percent forested, and 46 percent
 agriculture. The inland bays are tidally flushed,
 with estimates typically converging on 90-100
 days for Indian River Bay and 80 days for
 Rehoboth Bay. No flushing estimates are
 available for Little Assawoman Bay (Weston,
 1993).

 The inland bays are suffering from plant nutrient
 enrichment (eutrophicatioh) that causes unwanted
 phytoplankton blooms with resulting declines in
 light penetration and oxygen levels. These
 changes in environmental quality have led to
 eradication of submerged aquatic vegetation (sea
 grasses) and to declines in desirable finfish and
 shellfish.  NIajpr sources of these nutrients are
 land runoff from intensive agribusiness
 operations, intrusion of nutrient-contaminated
 groundwater from  agricultural and domestic
 sources, and sewage treatment plant effluents.

 Overall, the inland bays are highly nutrient
 enriched (eutrophic), especially in the tidal creeks.
 Characterization efforts in the Chesapeake Bay
 yielded a classification system for bay waters
based upon total nitrogen and total phosphorous
concentrations.  Under that classification system,
the inland bays' combination of ambient total
nitrogen concentrations, generally in excess of
 1 part per million (ppm), and total  phosphorous
concentrations, generally in the range of 0.1 to
0.2 ppm, would rank the inland bays among the
 most enriched of the 32 sub-estuarine systems of
 the Chesapeake Bay. Based upon the Chesapeake
 classification system, the middle and upper
 segments of the Indian River estuary are more
 enriched than any segment of the Chesapeake Bay.
 Significant increases in tidal flushing rates over
 the past 20 years may have mediated the
 progression of advancing eutrophic conditions,
 especially in the lower, higher salinity reaches of
 the system (Weston, 1993).

 For Rehoboth Bay, agriculture is the principal
 source of nitrogen, but point sources are the major
 source of phosphorus, almost all of which
 originates from the Rehoboth wastewater
 treatment plant (Cerco, et al., 1994). For Indian
 River and Assawoman bays, the principal source
 of both nitrogen and phosphorus is agriculture,
 through the application of inorganic fertilizers and
 manures. These practices, applied to the sandy,
 permeable soils of the watershed, have resulted in
 widespread contamination of the groundwater by
 nitrates (Andres, 1994)!

 Groundwater is a highly significant component of
 freshwater flow into the bays. About 70 to
 80 percent of total freshwater stream flow is
composed of groundwater discharge.
 Groundwater also flows under the bay shores and
discharges directly into the bays. Nearly all of this
groundwater originates as precipitation in the
inland bays watershed (Andres, 1992).
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        Historical Juvenile
        Fish Survey Sites
        in Delaware
               Derickson and Price (1973)
               Timmons (1995)
               Jensen (1974)

           D   EA (1974)
Figure 1. Historical juvenile fish survey sites which were revisited during the CBJA. Site 8,17,'and
23 could not be sampled due to lack of beach.
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                                      METHODOLOGY
 Field Collection

 During the CBJA, a beach seine survey of juvenile
 fish in the Delaware coastal bays was conducted
 monthly from July to September 1993 at 26 of 29
 sites corresponding to those sampled in historical
 studies. Three sites could not be sampled due to
 lack of beach (Fig. 1). Two kinds of sampling
 gear were used to be consistent with the historical
 studies. Sites corresponding to those sampled by
 Edmunds and Jensen (1974) or Ecological
 Analysts (1976) were sampled with a 50-ft, nylon
 haul seine of 0.25-in mesh with a 6-ft. by 6-ft.
 center bag. Sites corresponding to those sampled
 by Derickson and Price (1973) were sampled with
 a 60-ft., nylon haul seine of 1-in stretch mesh with
 a 6-ft. by 6-ft. center bag. Two sites that were
 common to the studies by Derickson and Price
 (1973) and Ecological Analysts (1976) were
 sampled with the 60-ft gear only. At all sites,
 seines were deployed by holding one end on shore,
 towing the other end perpendicularly away from
 shore, walking parallel to shore for 50 yards, then
 sweeping the seine in a semicircular path towards
 the shore. All fish collected were identified, and
 up to 25 individuals of each species were
 measured to the nearest millimeter.
bays, percent abundances for each species were
calculated based on the two summer months'
collections that most closely approximated the
CBJA 1993 collecting times and the Maryland
coastal bays' finfish investigations (Casey, et al.,
1994) in either June/July or August/September.
Because of possible differences in sampling gear
and intensity, no special attempt was made to
analyze differences in total abundance. Fish
species were ranked by percent abundance for the
summer season by aggregating two sampling
periods  (June/July or August/September) for each
body of water sampled.
Data Analysis

Data sets for shore-zone fish were assembled from
original data sets where possible.  Otherwise, data
summaries from reports, technical papers, and the
Delaware inland bays characterization document
(Weston, 1993) were utilized in the analysis. The
principal studies used in this analysis are shown in
Table 1.  Original data sets were available only for
the Coastal Bays Joint Assessment (CBJA) for
1993 and Edmunds and Jensen for 1971.

In an effort to determine how shore-zone fish
community structure may have changed with time
and allow comparisons to Maryland's coastal
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                                         RESULTS
 Indian River Bav and Rehoboth Bav
 Results from Derickson and Price (1973) are
 shown in Figure 2 and indicate that for the
 summer of 1968 the five most dominant fish
 species in order of percent abundance were
 Menidia menidia (30.6%), Fundulus majalis
 (29.2%), Fundulus heteroclitus (20.2%),
 Pseudopleuronectes americanus (7.6%), and
 Anchoa mitchilli (4.6%) representing a total of
 92.2% of the total shore-zone fish community.
 The same authors (Derickson and Price, 1973)
 report for the summer of 1969 (Fig. 3) that the
 most dominant fish species were Fundulus
 majalis (35.8%), Menidia menidia (22.0%),
 Fundulus  heteroclitus (21.3%), Bairdiella
 chtysoura (9.1%), and Pseudopleuronectes
 americanus (3.5%) for a total of 91.7% of the
 shore-zone fish community. In 1992, Timmons
 (1995) captured shore-zone fishes reporting
Menidia menidia (34.8%), Fundulus heteroclitus
 (16.4%), Fundulus majalis  (16.3%),
Pseudopleuronectes americanus (5.2%), and
Anchoa mitchilli (4.6%) for a total of 77.3% of
 the shore-zone fish community (Fig. 4). In 1993,
 the CBJA duplicated the Derickson and Price
 (1973) and Timmons (1995) studies and reported
dominance in order of percent abundance to be
Fundulus majalis (49.4%), Fundulus heteroclitus
 (31.2%), Cyprinodon  variegatus (3.l%),Mugil
curema (2.9%), andLeiostomusxanthurus
 (1.9%) for a total of 88.5% of the shore-zone fish
community.  In this case, the two Fundulus sp.
accounted  for over 80% of the total (Fig. 5).
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The rank and relative abundance of the top ten
shore-zone fish collected by seine in the above
studies are shown in Table 2.  The average rank of
the five most abundant shore-zone fish in order
are Fw«cfw/w.s mqjalis (1), Fundulus heteroclitus
(2), Menidia menidia (3), Pseudopleuronectes
americanus (4), and Cyprinodon variegatus (5)
which allows members of the Cyprinodon family
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 three of the top five rankings 'for Rehoboth Bay
 and Indian River Bay.     •  ,       ;
 Upper Indian River

 Edmunds and Jensen (1974) collected shore-zone
 fish at 9 stations from the base of the Millsboro
 dam on upper Indian River to the mouth of Island
 Creek near the DP&L Indian River power,, plant.
 In 1971, they found the dominant fish species to
 beBrevoortia tyrannus (69.6%), Fundulus
 heteroclitus (8.5%),Pomoxis nigromaculatus
 (6.8%), Menidia menidia (4.7%), andLeiostpmus
 xanthurus (3.3%) for a total of 92.9% of the fish
 community (Fig. 6). In 1993, the CBJA   :
 duplicated this study and reported dominance in
 abundance by percent to be Menidia menidia
 (60.9%), Fundulus heteroclitus (21.7%),  ;
 Fundulus majalis (8.9%), Morone saxatilis
 (2.2%), andLeiostomusxanthurus (1.4%) fora
 total of 95.1% of the shore-zone fish community
 (Fig. 7).  The 1971 study reported a number of
 primarily freshwater species including
 Notemigonus crysoleucas, Fundulus diaphanus,
 Pomoxis nigromaculatus, and Esox niger.
 Lepomis macrochirus andLepomisgibbosus
 were reported both in 1971 and 1993, but in larger
 numbers in 1971.
 shore-zone fish population (Fig. 9). In 1971,    "-;
 three of the top five species were freshwater fish
 with Fundulus sp. comprising only 10.7%, while
 in 1993 all were brackish/estuarine forms with the
 two Fundulus sp. comprising a total of 61.6% of
 the total assemblage.
White Creek

In 1957, Pacheco and Grant (1965) conducted a
shore-zone fish survey of White Creek (Fig; 10)
and reported that the dominant species in order of
percent abundance were Brevoortia tyrannus
(32.5%), Menidia beryllina (19.5%), Menidia
menidia (18.2%), Fundulus heteroclitus (13.5%),
mdAnchoa mitchilli (5.9%) for a total of 89.6%  •'•
of the shore-zone fish community (Fig. 11).
Campbell (1975) duplicated the study 16 years   i
later and showed that the dominant species
captured in White Creek included Menidia
menidia (39.7%), Fundulus heteroclitus (13.6%),
Leiostomus xanthurus (13.0%), Menidia
beryllina (11.6%), and Fundulus majalis (8.8%)
for a total of 86.7% of the shore-zone fish
community (Fig. 12). In 1957, the two Fundulus
sp. comprised 15.6% of the total assemblage, By
1973, that had increased to 22.4% of the total
assemblage.   ,:
Base of the Millsboro Dam

Station 1 from the 1971 study by Edmunds and
Jensen (1974) was the most up-river station in
Indian River and, therefore, should experience the
lowest salinities. In 1971, the most dominant
species by percent abundance were Pomoxis
nigromaculatus (45.2%), Menidia beryllina
(19.2%), Fundulus diaphanus (10.7%),
Notemigonus crysoleucas (9.5%), and
Leiostomus xanthurus (7.4%) for a total of 92.0%
of the shore-zone fish community (Fig. 8). In
1993 (Versar, 1995), the dominant species at that
station were Fundulus heteroclitus (48. i%),
Morone saxatilis (16.9%), Fundulus majalis
(13.5%), Menidia menidia (9.9%), and Menidia
beryllina (5.2%) for a total of 93.6% of the total
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Weakfish
Northern Puffer
Atlantic Herring
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The only additional data for Indian River Bay are
from a study conducted by Ecological Analysts for
Delmarva Power and Light (Ecological Analysts,
1976). The study included seven shore-zone
stations spaced approximately equidistantly from
Millsboro Dam to Indian River Inlet (Fig. 1).
Original data were not available for this study.
The semi-monthly (74-75) data or monthly (76)
data were aggregated by year (74-75, 75-76, 76)
and, therefore, are not directly comparable to the
two monthly summer collections selected from the
other studies. However, these data do provide
some insight into the shore-zone fish community
and are included in Table 3 for completeness.  The
rankings of dominant species for White Creek
(1957 and 1973) and Indian River (1974-1976)
are strikingly similar (Table 3) and show that the
dominant species in order are Menidia menidia
(1), Fundulus heteroclitus (2), Brevoortia
tyrannus (3), Menidia beryllina (4), and
Leiostomus xanthurus (5).
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Table 3. "**< f Jpalik? an&Felative abundance of top ten shore zone fish collectedly seine from Indian '
1 !: /> Vj JSiver and White Creek, Delaware»1957497 '; , ..- • •
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Atlantic Silversides
Striped Killifish
Mummichog
Menhaden
Bay Anchovy
Sheepshead
Minnow
Spot
Silver Perch
Bluefish
Golden Shiner
Gizzard Shad
White Perch
Croaker
White Mullet
Tidewater
Silversides
Rainwater Fish
: Striped Mullet
Banded Killifish
Top Minnow
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Rank "J"^
3 18.2
8 2.1
4 13.5
1 32.5
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6 3.3



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5 8.8
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9 1 0.4
10 0.3
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7 1.3
3 12.2
1 58.6
4 2.9
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4 4.4
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              DISCUSSION
One way of attempting to examine trends in fish
populations over time in the Delaware's inland
coastal bays is to compare the composition for the
earliest records in the area with current
compositions. For White Creek, the earliest
record (1957) and three representative studies
conducted in 1968,1973, and 1993, there seems
to be a significant shift in the fish faunal
dominance as shown in Tables 2 and 3. These
shifts are summarized below:
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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Menhaden
Tidewater Silversides
Atlantic Silversides
Mumtnichog
Bay Anchovy
Rainwater Fish
Silver Perch
Striped Killifish
Sheepshead Minnow
White Mullet
" '1968
Atlantic Silversides
Striped Killifish
Mummichog
Winter Flounder
Bay Anchovy
Sheepshead Minnow
Northern Puffer
Rainwater Fish
Silver Perch
' White Mullet
1973
Atlantic Silversides
Mummichog
Spot
Tidewater Silversides
Striped Killifish
Striped Mullet
Sheepshead Minnow
Bay Anchovy
Banded Killifish
Top Minnow
~ v 1993
Striped Killifish
Mummichog
Sheepshead Minnow
White Mullet
Spot6
Atlantic Croaker
Striped Mullet
Atlantic Silversides
Winter Flounder
Kingfish
During the past 36 years, it appears that
dominance has shifted from juvenile menhaden,
tidewater Silversides, and bay anchovy to
Fundulus sp. and Sheepshead minnow.  Basically,
the general impression is that the Family
Cyprinodontidae, which includes the killif ish and
Sheepshead minnow, are becoming progressively
more dominant with time, while menhaden, bay
anchovy, and tidewater Silversides are declining in
dominance.  Of these, the killifishes and
Silversides are year-round residents, while the
anchovy and menhaden are warm-water migrants
(Weston, 1993). Thornton (1975) reported that
the killif ish and sheepshead minnow have strong
tolerances to low oxygen while menhaden and bay
anchovy are  quite sensitive to low oxygen. Based
on the literature and his own research, Thornton
(1975) constructed a classification of estuarine
fish based on their sensitivity to low oxygen. For
the dominant fishes encountered in this study, they
are listed below in order of sensitivity:
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Least Sensitive
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Brevoortia tyrannus
Menidia menidia
Anchoa mitchilli
Mugil cephalus
Bairdiella chrysoura
Leiostomus xanthurus
Cyprinodon variegatus
Fundulus heteroclitus
Fundulus majalis
fVitmnon Nfafn**
Atlantic Menhaden
Atlantic Silversides
Bay Anchovy
Striped Mullet
Silver Perch
Spot
Sheepshead Minnow
Mummichog
Striped Killifish
Although Anchoa mitchilli, the bay anchovy, was
not included in the original list by Thornton
(1975), he mentions that it is extremely sensitive
to being held in captivity and dies within a few
minutes in tanks or buckets, suggesting a very low
tolerance to hypoxic stress; i.e., it would probably
rank with the Atlantic menhaden and Atlantic
silversides as being very sensitive. Thornton
updated the ranking to include the bay anchovy as
shown above and as reported in Daiber, et al.
(1976).

Water Quality Considerations

The nutrient inputs to the inland bays affect the
abundance and distribution of bay life.  The
microscopic floating plants (phytoplankton) are
most prolific (as measured by chlorophyll
concentrations) in the portions of the estuary
closest to nutrient sources (e.g., in the upper and
middle portions of Indian River Bay), while
Rehoboth Bay generally represents an inter-
mediate level of ambient nutrients and chlorophyll
concentration, while the area nearest Indian River
Inlet has the lowest concentrations of both.  The
same relationship is seen in the clarity (turbidity)
of the water, with the upper portions of the
tributaries having the most turbid water and the
areas flushed near Indian River Inlet having the
least turbid water.  Turbidity also changes
seasonally, with clarity of the water generally
improving after Labor Day and lasting until about
Memorial Day. The most turbid water in all three
bays is seen during the summer season and
probably results from a combination of biological
effects (increased phytoplankton and microbial
growth) and physical effects (boat traffic)
(Ullman, et al., 1993).

Secchi depths in upper Indian River now average
about 50 cm year-round, but may be as low as
10 cm during summer months when extremely
high chlorophyll concentrations (in excess of
lOOug/L"1) occur in the mesohaline and tidal creek
portions of the river (Ullman, et al., 1993). Based
upon the EPA Chesapeake Bay classification
system, the middle and upper segments of Indian
River estuary are more enriched than any segment
of the Chesapeake Bay (Weston, 1993) and very
likely any portion of the Maryland coastal bays.

Submerged Aquatic Vegetation

A major worldwide decline of seagrass beds
occurred in the  1930s and affected the Chesapeake
Bay and the Delmarva Peninsula (Delaware,
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Maryland, and Virginia). While many areas
revived from the decline, the inland bays of
Delaware never recovered. Eelgrass, Zostera
marina, once present in the inland bays  in the
1920s has been seen sporadically in small
quantities, but has not been verified since 1970.
Transplanting of seagrasses has been unsuccessful
in Delaware, probably due to high levels of
suspended chlorophyll, increased turbidity, and
high levels of nutrients (Orth and Moore, 1988).

The combination of excessive nutrient levels and
high turbidity appears to eliminate the growth of
submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) such as eel
grass (Zostera marina) in the inland bays. This
probably has significant ecological effects,
because SAV is desirable habitat for a variety of
finfish and shellfish and is food for certain types
of waterfowl, although the habitat function may be
provided, to some extent, by attached benthic
algae (seaweeds)  (Timmons, 1995). The
seaweeds probably also play a role in sequestering
excess nutrients during the summer, but we have
evidence that extremely high levels of nutrients
and turbidity have a degrading effect on the
seaweeds as well, especially in the upper portion
of Indian River Bay (Timmons, 1995).

Orth and Heck (1980) found that the dominant
fish species in Chesapeake Bay eelgrass meadows
were Leiostomus xanthurus (1), Sygnathus filscus
(2), Anchoa mitchilli (3), Bairdiella chrysoura
(4), and Menidia menidia (5). By contrast,
Fundulus heteroclitus andF. majalis ranked 9th
and 43rd in eelgrass meadows, respectively.

Habitat Loss through Salinity Changes

The aquatic habitats of the inland bays have been
significantly modified during the last few
hundreds years. The most significant impacts
have occurred as a result of the stabilization and
deepening of Indian River Inlet, which resulted in
a dramatic change in the bays' complexion. Since
the early 1930s, the bays have progressed from an
almost totally freshwater, landlocked system to a
marine-dominated estuary—all within 60 years.
The most dramatic change has occurred  since the
 early 1970s when the inlet depth eroded from
,20 feet to depths in excess of 90 feet. The      •
 resulting increase in the volume of highly saline
 ocean that was allowed to pass with each tidal .,
 cycle and the accompanying increase in tidal range
 have had a profound impact on the habitats and
 living resources of the inland bays (Weston,
 1993).

 Of particular importance is the reduction (almost
 total loss) of the tidal freshwater portion of the
 inland bays. The establishment of dammed mill
 ponds and the dredging of the upper portions of:
 tidal tributaries, thus allowing the extended
 upstream progression of the saline tidal wedge,  ,'
 coupled with the increased salinity of the bays, has
 virtually eliminated breeding and nursery habitat
 for anadrbmous fish once common to the inland
 bays.  Striped bass, shad, and various herring, to
 name a few, were once common to the bays and
 have now virtually disappeared due to major    :
 losses of this high-value habitat. Many of those
 few  upper tributary areas that could still function
 as spawning and nursery fisheries habitat have
 been channeled through coarse, wobdy habitat for
 the purpose of water drainage and small-boat
 navigation, yielding streams sterile of habitat
 structure necessary for protective cover (Weston,
 1993).   ••'••'                             ;

 Table 4 shows the increases in salinities that have
 occurred since the late 60s and early 70s at the
 uppermost stations in Indian River based on
 Edmunds  and Jensen's 1971 data compared to the
 1993 CBJA.  A comparison of the dominant fish
 captured in 1971 in upper Indian River (Fig. 6)
 and  at the base of the Millsboro darn, (Fig. 8) with
 fish  captured in 1993 at the same locations (Figs.
 7 and 9) shows a distinct shift from a
 predominantly freshwater assemblage in 1971 to a
 more brackish fauna in 1993 dominated primarily
 by two Fundulus sp.          ,.,'.'
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Of special note is the appearance in 1993 of a
strong year class of young-of-the-year striped bass
(Morone saxatilis) not reported in these bays in
significant numbers in any previous study
(Pacheco and Grant, 1965; Derickson and Price,
1973; Edmunds and Jensen, 1974; Campbell,
1975). The only interpretation that is offered is
that the great recent success of the striped bass
population in the Chesapeake Bay is allowing an
expansion of the spawning stock into Delaware's
inland coastal bays. As evidence for a one-time
recent occurrence of striped bass, Timmons
(1995) surveyed the shore-zone fish of Indian
River and Rehoboth Bay in 1992 duplicating the
1969-70 study of Derickson and Price (1973) and
found no striped bass (Morone saxatilis).
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                                                COASTL BAYS
                        SHQRE ZOHE FlStt COMMUNITIES
                     Cecelia C. Luider, Jarnes F. Casey, Steve Doctor; Alan Wesche
                             Maryjand Department of Natural Resources
                               '   ,*  ;,.     January  1996
The shallow waters of Maryland's coastal bays have Historically supported large populations of juvenile
finfish and shellfish; adults of many species, of fish are also seasonally common. Atlantic croaker, bluefish,
spot, summer flounder, weakfish, shark, blue crab :and hard clam are important both recreational and
commercial species which use habitats of the coastal bays. Over 115 species of finfish, 17 species of
mollusks, 23 species of crustaceans and countless foraging/grazing organisms frequent these bays (Casey et
al., 1991, 1992, 1993). Since 1972, Maryland's Department of Natural Resources has sampled the coastal
bays, supplying data for environmental  reviews and resource, management. Current data on fishery stocks in
Maryland's coastal bays are important for several reasons: (1)  Many species which use this habitat (bluefish,
butterfish, croaker, spot, American eel,  summer flounder, scup, sea bass, weakfish, spotted sea trout, red and
black drum, white perch, blue crab and  horseshoe crab) are the subjects of interstate and/or state management
plans, (2) development is increasing, and (3) important fisheries are dependent on production from this area.

Human population growth and watershed development are encroaching on the coastal bay system. Over the
next 20 years, local human population levels are expected to increase by 28%, and most of the development
will be along the shoreline. Survey data can be used in evaluating impacts of specific developments and
tracking ecosystem health over the long term  (Citizen's Agenda, 1990). The value of the local  commercial
and recreational fisheries is quite significant.  In 1992, 15.8 million pounds of finfish and shellfish worth 7.7
million dollars were landed in Ocean City.  This catch represented 28% of the weight and 21% of the value of
Maryland landings. Most of the region's commercial and recreational fishery landings were composed of
estuarine-dependent species (Citizen's Agenda 1990) such as summer flounder, weakfish, croaker, and sea
bass. During 1985, the last survey year where coastal recreational catch data could be separated from total
state recreational catch data, approximately 378,000 recreational fishing trips caught 1.1 million fish in
Maryland's coastal waters (NOAA/NMFS, 1986).  Trip related expenditures of these fishing trips was $19.1
million (U.S.F.&W.S.,1989).

Information from annual catch data and analysis have been of considerable value to a number of
organizations and agencies. Among those requesting data are the ASMFC Spot and Atlantic Croaker
Workshop, ASMFC Weakfish Technical Committee, ASMFC Summer Flounder Technical Committee, Mid-
Atlantic Fisheries Management Council, MDNR, Water Resources, Tidal Wetlands Division, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Environmental Protection Agency, National Park Service, U.S. Corps of Engineers, Versar
Inc., Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Maryland CEES, Delaware DNREC,  offices of
Maryland state delegates, U.S. Congressmen and Baltimore Sun and Washington Post newspapers.
Educational seminars were also conducted with University and Elementary school students.
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                              THE SETTING IN MARYLAND
 Maryland's coastal bays (Fig. 13) are contained
 within a single Maryland county and consist of six
 interconnected water bodies- St. Martin River and
 Assawoman, Isle of Wight, Sinepuxent, JSTewport,.
 and Chincoteague Bays- as well as a number of
 smaller tributaries. Combined they have a total
 water surface area of 140.6 square miles. The
 watershed however, is only about 205 square
 miles in size, primarily due to the proximity of the
 Pocomoke River to the west. The total length of
 the bays and watershed between the Virginia and
 Delaware lines is about 35 miles.  The land is low,
 sandy, and generally poorly drained. Extensive
 Type 17 wetlands (Spartina) border much of the
 coastal bays. The coastal bays have been
 estimated to contain 92% of the state's inventory
 of this wetland type.

 Geomorphology

 The coastal bays  and watershed are underlain by
 three distinct geologic formations:

 1.       Sinepuxent formation- dark, poorly
         sorted, silty, fine to medium sand with
         thin beds of peaty sand and black clay.

 2.       Ironshire formation- pale yellow to white
         sand and gravelly sand.

 3.      Beaverdam formation- pale coarse
        gravelly sand with thin local beds of dark
        gray clay containing peaty material.

 Soils of the watershed are predominately of the
 Fallsington-Woodstown-Sassafras association.
 These are level to steep and poorly drained to well
 drained with a dominant sandy clay-loam subsoil.
 Smaller regions of other soil types exist here,
characterized by poor drainage and a silty clay-
loam subsoil. There are ten known aquifers that
may impact the watershed with the Quaternary
aquifer being the most important source of fresh
water.  It is recharged by precipitation over a
 broad area. Some of these aquifers contain salt
 water. Contamination of existing aquifers with
 salt water has taken place in limited areas due to
 dredging or excessive fresh water withdrawal.
 The water table is generally within 25 feet of the
 surface with basement rock formations found in
 excess of 7,500 feet deep.

 Hydrography

 Seven notable streams are tributaries to the
 coastal bays, with the St. Martin River, accounting
 for 62% of the total drainage area for the upper
 two bays, being the primary one. The coastal bays
 are connected to the Atlantic Ocean by an inlet at
 Ocean City and  an inlet at the southern terminus
 of Chincoteague Bay in Virginia. The bays are
 shallow, generally less than six feet in depth, with
 the greatest depths in the marked navigation
 channels. Shoaling is common in many areas of
 the bays, reducing depths to only one to three feet.
 Mean salinities for the areas sampled by Maryland
 DNR vary from  25 ppt to 30 ppt during the
 summer.  However, in Chincoteague Bay, the slow
 water exchange rate can cause evaporation to
 increase salinity to as much as 35 ppt. Circulation
 patterns and tidal ranges are dependent on wind
 conditions and proximity to the inlet.  Currents
 near the inlet can reach five knots with tidal
 amplitudes of three to four feet.  The currents
 rapidly drop off with distance from the inlet.
 Historically, the  barrier island is susceptible to
 interdiction by severe storms. Since the  17th
 century, more than fifty hurricanes and heavy
storms have hit Maryland's coast leaving more
than eleven inlets in their wakes.
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                                                                                Assawoman Bay
                                                                        7jf. Isle of Wight Bay
                                                               Atlantic Ocean
Figure 13. Historical finfish seine sites for Maryland's inland bays.
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 Sediments

 Coastal bay sediments consist primarily of clay-
 silts along the western edge, grading through
 sand-silts in mid-bay to sand along the eastern
 edge. Numerous lenses of varying size of the clay-
 silts occur within the east side sands. In most
 upper coastal bay sediments, carbon, nitrogen and
 sulfur are generally within expected ranges for
 marine sediments. Metals are also generally within
 expected ranges although copper and zinc levels
 are slightly elevated.
 Habitat

 The area is biologically diverse. Many of the
 marshes are classified as Type 17 wetlands with
 additional species dominating the drier ecotones.
 Over 11,000 acres of low and high salt marsh
 have been estimated for the coastal bays.
 Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) is common
 and gradually increasing along the eastern sides of
 the lower two bays but somewhat uncommon and
 static in the upper two bays. The lack of SAV's in
 the upper bays can be due in part to over 25 years
 of dredge-and-f ill activity and resultant changes
 along the bayside of Ocean City. In 1981, over
 157 species of benthic invertebrates representing
 five phyla were sampled in the bay sediments
 (Casey and Wesche, 1982). Species richness and
 abundance varied both temporally and spatially.
 Diversity and density declined towards late
 summer and with proximity to the inlet. Generally,
 diversity and density were higher along the
 western edges of the bays with clay-silts being the
 preferred substrate. However, stressed habitat
 severely limited or eliminated these benthics.
 Over 115 species of finfish have been identified.
 Most of these are estuarine-dependent,
 particularly juvenile game fish such as flounder,
 sea trout, spot, croaker, bluefish, striped bass, eel
 and sea bass (Casey et al., 1991,1992, 1993).
The coastal bays are recognized as a valuable
breeding and nursery habitat for game species as
well as the forager/grazers (Figs.  14 and 15).
 The bays are an important area for more than 200
 species of birds. More than 11 species actively
 feed on emergent shoals while many more use the
 area for breeding, feeding, staging and wintering.
 Several are listed as threatened or endangered
 (Citizen's Agenda,  1990). Diamondback terrapin,
 which have never fully recovered from excessive
 harvest in the early 1900's, use small, protected
 sandy beaches within the wetlands to deposit eggs,
 spending the balance of the year foraging around
 the more isolated wetlands. Protected turtles such
 as the Atlantic Loggerhead and Leatherback have
 been observed in the upper two bays. A variety of
 mammals including raccoon, muskrat, otter and
 harbor seals use the bays for feeding and/or
 breeding.

 Land Use in the Watershed

 The western side of the bays are primarily rural
 but with rapidly accelerating housing and strip
 development on the upper two bays. The eastern
 side represents extremes, with 25 miles of
 Assateague Island maintained in its natural state
 by the National and Maryland statepark systems
 and to the north, ten miles of Fenwick Island as
 Ocean City, a heavily developed resort, holding as
 many as 240,000 visitors on a summer weekend.
 In 1990, it was estimated that 43 developments of
 various kinds were under construction or
 completed (Citizen's Agenda, 1990). Currently, at
 least eight more are in the planning stages or
 under construction. Much of this development and
 construction is taking place on land recognized
 since 1977 as a flood hazard area. The rural areas
 of the watershed are devoted to lumber
production, agriculture, and the chicken  industry.
Two wildlife management areas are within the
watershed as are six sewage treatment plants of
varying capacity; five of which empty into the
coastal bays.
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                      Bay Anchovies (3")
                      Anchoa mUchllll
     Halfbeak(7')
     tfyporhamphus untfasclalus
                                   Atlantic Needlefish (9')
                                   Slrangylura marina
                                          Striped Klllinsh (to 8')
                                          Fundulus majalls
                                          Banded Kllllflsh (to 4V5']
                                          Rinaulus dlaphanus
    Rainwater KKlifch (T)
    Lucanlaparva
Sheepshead Minnow (to 4*}
Cyprtnodon variegcrtus
                                                                                         Mummlohog (to 5")
                                                                                         Fundulus heteroclltus
  Figure 14.  Common shallow water species present in the Delaware and Maryland inland bays
  (Lippson and Lippson, 1984).
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       a
Figure 15. Common benthic species in Maryland's inland bays: a) oyster toadfish, Opsanus tau; b)
skilletfish, Gobiesox strumosus', c) striped blenny, Chasmodes bosquianus; d) naked goby, Gobiasoma
bosci; e) northern puffer, Sphoeroides maculatus; f) northern searobin, Prinotus carolinus; g) summer
flounder, Paralichthys dentatus; h) hogchoker, Tinectes maculatu (White, 1989).
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Perceived Stressors on the System

Rapid growth of housing and strip developments
and the resultant associated problems of sewage,
stormwater runoff, boat traffic and dockage
demands, and service and solid waste demands are
the primary stresses on much of the coastal
waters. Bulkheading eliminates wetlands and
shallow water habitats and creates unstable
bottom conditions. Dredging and dead-end canal
developments create unusable or detrimental
habitat. Discharge of untreated and treated sewage
from five sewage treatment systems, landfill
leachate, poultry plant and agricultural runoff, and
aging septic systems add to the problem.
Currently, Turville/Herring Creeks and the St.
Martin River have been closed to shellf ishing
from coliform contamination since 1975 and
Johnson Bay since 1966. Generally, it is
acknowledged that seasonal patterns for dissolved
nutrients, chlorophyll-a and dissolved oxygen are
similar to other healthy high saline coastal bays.
However, current water quality data is distinctly
inadequate at detecting short and long term trends
in toxic contaminants and water degradation.

Commercial and recreational fishing contribute
considerably to the local economy, bringing in an
estimated total of 427 million dollars annually to
their respective industries. Currently however,
over 18 species of finfish and shellfish are
undergoing state and/or federally mandated
management measures because their populations
are near, at, or below sustainable harvest levels.
Contributing to this problem have been the
alteration, degradation, and/or elimination of
quality habitat.
six-minute trawls were made at 20 fixed sites each
month between April and October, 1989-1994.
Single quarter-circle seine hauls were made at 19
fixed sites around the perimeter of the coastal
bays in tributaries in June and September, 1989-
1994. Between 1972 and 1988, both seine and
trawl were made at the same sites in various
degrees of frequency in this time period (Table 5).
Finfish data collected at each site included species,
number, total length (TL, mm) .salinity,
temperature, wind and weather  conditions and tide
state. .  •   ',"
           METHODOLOGY

 Field Collection

 Fishes were sampled with a 4.9 m (16 ft.) semi-.
 balloon otter trawl in areas over 1.0 m deep and a
 30.5 m X 1.8 m X 6.4 cm (100 ft X 6 ft X .25 in)
 bag seine in areas less than 1.0 m in depth. Single
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Total effort and number of species collected
annually were tested for linear or curvilinear
(quadratic) relationships with regression analysis.
Residuals of regression of number of species and
effort were tested against time for trends. Effect of
sampling effort on number of species collected
was allowed for by using the residuals of the
linear regression of sampling effort against
number of species. Studentized residuals and
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community structure of Delaware, the data from
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dropped from analysis due to the great difference
in salinity at this station (0 ppt) compared to the
rest of the sampling sites (25-35 ppt). From the
resultant 18 seine sites (Figure 13), percent
abundances for each species were calculated for
each year over the entire system and ranks were
assigned. Mean rank and mean percent  abundance
were also calculated for each species for five-year
increments aggregated over the Assawoman/Isle
of Wight/St. Martin River complex (seine sites 1-
7) and Chincoteague Bay (seine sites 13-18) in
order to compare the fish community structure
within these two subsystems.
RESULTS

From within the coastal bays, a total of 101,291
individuals representing 107 species of fish and
invertebrates was collected in trawl and seine
samples between April and October, 1993
(Attachment). Some of the important shallow
water and benthic species are illustrated in Figures
14 and 15, respectively. Sampling effort was the
same in both 1992 and 1993; however, there was
a significant increase of 93% in numbers caught
and a 21% increase in the number of species from
 1992 to 1993.  Abundance of the 14 majpr species
 of foragers and grazers (Table 6) showed a 63%
 increase over 1991 levels and comprised 90% of
 the total 1993 finfish catch. Virtually all major
 game fish were below  1991 levels.

 The linear regression of total number of species
 collected against sampling effort was significant
 (r2 = 0.60, p=< 0.001). The time trend of the
 residuals of the previous regression was
 significant (r2 = 0.32, p =< 0.006), indicating that
 the number of species has been increasing slightly
 in the coastal bays during 1972-1993.

 Northern bays versus Chincoteague Bay

 The fish community structure for the northern
 bays (represented as mean rank and mean percent
 abundance) for Assawoman/Isle of Wight/St.
 Martin River complex (seine sites 1-7) and for
 Chincoteague Bay (seine sites 13-18) are shown in
 Table 7. For the years 1972 to 1976, the five
 species with the highest mean ranks  (with mean
 percent abundance over the same time frame to
 give an  impression of the strength of their
 presence)  for the northern bays were (1)
 Leiostomus xanthums (25%), (2) Menidia
 menidia (35%), (3) Brevoortia tyrannus (26%),
 (4) Fundulus heteroclitus (1.7%), and (5)
 Fundulus majalis (3.6%). By the 1989 to 1993
 time frame, the picture changed such that the
 ranking was (1) Menidia menidia (32%), (2)
Anchoa mitchilli (11%), (3) Bairdiella chiysoura
 (8%), (4) Mugil curema (11%), and (5)
 Leiostomus xanthums (11%). Over the same two
 time frames, the Chincoteague Bay went from a
 species ranking of (1) Brevoortia tyrannus
 (33%), (2) Menidia menidia (33%), (3) Anchoa
 mitchilli (15%), (4) Leiostomus xanthums (9%),
 and (5) Strongylura marina (0.6%) to  (1)
Menidia menidia (25%), (2) Anchoa mitchilli
 (20%),  (3) Brevoortia tyrannus (33%), (4)
Bairdiella chrysoura (6.5%), (5) Leiostomus
xanthums (5.1%). Over the entire twenty years,
 the four most dominant species were Menidia
 menidia, Anchoa mitchilli, Leiostomus
xanthums, and Brevoortia tyrannus with the fifth
 most dominant species being F. heteroclitus in
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Chincoteague Bay andF. majalis in the northern
bays. The mean number of species and the mean
total catch over the five year increments were
always significantly larger for the northern bays
than the Chincoteague Bay although the effort is
comparable.
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Table 6.  Species of foragers and grazers comprising 90% of the total 1993 f inf ish catch.
SPECIES
BAY ANCHOVY
ATLANTIC
SILVERSIDE
SPOT
ATLANTIC
MENHADEN
ATLANTIC
HERRING
WHITE MULLET
SILVER PERCH
STRIPED
KILLIFISH
MUMMICHOG
NORTHERN
PIPEFISH
SMALLMOUTH
FLOUNDER
RAINWATER
KILLIFISH
NAKED GOBY
STRIPED
ANCHOVY
SUBTOTAL
SEINE CATCH
4,331
10^947
1,155
• 894
1
2,132
1,056
380
693
88
10 '
378
109
69
22,343
TRAWL CATdH ,
20,249
27 •
1,118
23
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1
184
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VTTOTAL, f'
24580
10974
2273
917
1894
2133
1240
380
701
229
30
433
169
84
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Table 7.     Mean rank and abundance for the top ten species of each year for the Assawoman/Isle of
            Wight/St. Martin River complex (seine sites 1-7) and Chincoteague Bay (seine sites 13-18).
Species
Atlantic silver-side
Atlantic menhaden
Spot
Bay anchovy
Striped killifish
Mummichog
Striped mullet
Atlantic needlefish
Summer flounder
Bluefish
Oyster toadfish
Northern pipefish
American eel
Silver perch
Inshore lizardfish
White mullet
Atlantic croaker
Striped anchovy
Weakfish
Sheepshead minnow
Southern stingray
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(28.2%), Leiostomusxanthurus (25.3%),
Fundulus heteroclitus (4.6%), and Paralichthys
dentatus (1.4%) for a total of 98.5 percent of the
fish community (Fig. 16). By 1977, the dominant
species were Brevoortia tyrannus (35.7%),
Menidia menidia (30.2%), Leiostomus xanthurus
(18.l%),Anchoa mitchilli (12.2%), Mugil
cephalus (1.4%) for a total of 97.6 percent of the
fish community (Fig. 17). In 1982, the dominants
were the same except thatF. majalis was the fifth
most dominant species replacing Mugil cephalus
at 1.2 percent of the total fish community (Fig.
18).  By 1987, the dominant species were Menidia
menidia (87.5%), Anchoa mitchilli (3.6%), Mugil
cephalus (2.4%), Brevoortia tyrannus (2.3%),
andBairdiella chrysoura (1.0%) for a total of
96.8 percent of the fish community (Fig. 19). In
1992, the dominant species were Brevoortia
tyrannus (37.4%), Menidia menidia (34.2%),
Bairdiella chrysoura (13.5%), Anchoa mitchilli
(2.9%), and Mugil curema (2.4%) for a total of
90.4 percent of the fish community (Fig. 20). In
1993, the dominant species were Menidia
menidia (48.5%), Anchoa mitchilli (19.1%),
Mugil curema (9.5%), Leiostomus xanthurus
(5.0%), andBairdiella chrysoura (4.3%) for a
total of 86.4 percent of the shore-zone fish
population  (Fig. 21).  Since 1989, the average
,rank of the top five dominant species is Menidia
menidia (1), Anchoa mitchilli (2), Brevoortia
tyrannus (3), Leiostomus xanthurus (4), and
Fundulus majalis (5).  The ranking of the top five
dominants has essentially included the same five
species for the past 20 years.

Using five year means of ranks of species
determined by percent abundance, the same six
species are ranked in the top seven for the four
time periods calculated. In descending order of
their twenty year mean rank, these six species are
Atlantic silverside (Menidia menidia), Atlantic
menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus), spot
(Leiostomus xanthurus), bay anchovy (Anchoa
mitchilli), striped killifish (Fundulus majalis),
and mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) (Tables
8-11).  Striped mullet (Mugil cephalus), whose
average rank from 1972 to 1988 was between 6
and 7, dropped in average rank to 12 in the 1989
to 1993 time period. For the same time  periods,
atlantic menhaden dropped from an average rank
of 1 to 3, summer flounder (Paralichthys
dentatus) dropped from 7.5 to 11, and northern
pipefish (Sygnathusfuscus) rose from 12 to 9   .
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                                         DISCUSSION
 In general, the fish community structure of the
 Maryland inland bays is quite stable over the
 years. The Maryland inland bays might be seen as
 an example of what type of structure there might
 have been in Delaware's system before more
 intensive development and nutrient enrichment
 took place. In fact there is evidence of a slight
 increase in species richness in the Maryland inland
 bays over the past 20 years as proven by three
 different investigators using three different
 techniques (Casey et al., 1992,1994; Linder, pers.
 comm.). Moderate disturbances in some systems
 have actually promoted species diversity; and
 hypothetically, the increase in species richness for
 the Maryland bays might be attributable to
 changing physical conditions such as increases in
 land development, bottom currents, and nutrient
 enrichment. As with the Delaware data, the shifts
 in the community composition of the entire
 Maryland system are summarized below:
, Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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Spot
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Menhaden
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Spot
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Atlantic Silversides
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Rough silverside
Tvfenhaden
During the past 20 years, the dominance has
shifted from Atlantic menhaden, Atlantic
Silversides, and spot to Atlantic Silversides, bay
anchovy, and Mugtt spp. Unlike the Delaware
coastal bays system, Maryland has not seen the
degree of increase in cyprinodontids to a position
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 within the top four ranks. However, in 1993 three
 cyprinodontids are representing ranks 6 to 8,
 which might indicate an early warning sign for the
 future.  The 1994 data (not shown in this report)
 also represent a higher abundance of combined < '•_,
 Fundulus spp. than the average amount for this ,
 sytem. However, attempting to make a conclusion
 might be premature without more sampling.
 Important game species, such as summer flounder,
 bluefish, Atlantic croaker, and American eel, have
 dropped from ranking in the top ten to record low
 levels in the past 23 years of data collection. It
 appears at this time that more planktivorous
 species such as Mugil spp. and bottom feeders
 such as silver perch have replaced them  in the
 rankings. In attempting to glean an idea of what is
 happening within the system,  it is important to
 take into account the scope of the effort  and the
 natural  variability in fish populations, as well as
 the positive effects that nutrients might be playing
 on the living resources. One might expect the
 Chincoteague Bay, in  its pristine state with an
 abundance of wetlands, to have a more diverse
 and abundant assemblage of fish.  This hypothesis
 does not hold true. In fact, it is the northern bays
 and Newport Bay, both of which are affected by a
 greater nutrient load, that have the more diverse
 sites with large complements of fish species
 (Table 8-11). In general, the Maryland system
 does not appear to be under the degree the stress
 as the Delaware system, which might indicate why
 the Fundulus spp are not as dominant in the
 Maryland system.

 One of the more detrimental forces acting upon
 the fish  community in Maryland is the degree of
 over-utilization of fisheries resources. The
 population of summer  flounder crashed in the
 early 1990s and is showing some signs of a come-
 back since restrictions  have been placed on the
 amount and size of their catch. Bluefish have
 crashed all over the Atlantic Coast fishery and the
 impacts of that can be seen in the Maryland
 coastal bays data. Weakfish have declined over
the years as well, as have American eel which    ,
 itself is in jeopardy from encroaching development
 in the northern bays in areas of elver concentration
up the smaller creeks.                     :".;'
 Habitat loss is a concern in the upper bays of
 Maryland with the degree of development planned
 for this area. It appears that the fish communities
 of this system tend to aggregate at spots that
 provide a good three dimensional structure and
 have marsh areas within a close distance (<50
 feet). With development comes a loss in the
 surface area of healthy shallow water habitat with
 dredge operations and canalization. Moderate
 levels of nutrients might have a positive impact on
 the faunal assemblage, but loss of habitat and
 refuge has no positive effect.
            CONCLUSIONS

Therefore, one can conclude that generally
speaking the Maryland coastal bays are dominated
primarily by Atlantic silverside, bay anchovy,
Atlantic menhaden, and spot, and not by Fundulus
majalis and Fundulus heteroclitus which is the
case in the Delaware coastal bays today. Indeed,
if one compares the earliest available Delaware
record for shore-zone fishes in Delaware Bay
(1959) with the Maryland coastal bays fish fauna,
they are strikingly similar.  deSylva et al. (1962)
reported that the dominant shore-zone fish species
for the Delaware Bay were Menidia menidia
(53.0%), Bairdiella chrysoura (17.9%), Anchoa
mitchilli (l5.1%),Brevoortia tyrannus (2.3%),
and Fundulus majalis  (2.2%) for a total of
90.5 percent of the shore-zone fish community
(Fig. 22).  Likewise, in 1957, the dominant
species in White Creek, a tributary of Indian River
Bay were Brevoortia tyrannus (32.5%), Menidia
beryllina (19.5%), Menidia menidia (18.2%),
Fundulus heteroclitus (13.5%), and Anchoa
mitchilli (5.9%) for a total of 89.6% of
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  the shore-zone fish community (Table 3; Pacheco
  and Grant, 1965).  Therefore, if one goes back in
  history some 35 years, at least in Delaware's bays,
  the shore-zone fish community strongly resembles
  that of the less impacted Maryland coastal bays of
  today.

  The fish community dominance in Delaware's
  coastal bays has shifted toward those species that
  are more tolerant to low oxygen stress [Thornton
  (1975) in Daiber, et al. (1976)] and which are also
  more tolerant to salinity and temperature
  extremes. There is also a strong possibility that
 Fundulus sp. and Cyprinodon sp. are more
  adaptable to eutrophication mediated shifts in the
  food chain with its attendant increase in turbidity;
  i.e., under eutrophied conditions there would be a
 selective advantage for species that are
 omnivorous (Bigelow and Schroeder, 1953) and
 which do not feed primarily by sight. Grecay
 (1990) showed that weakfish juveniles (which are
 sight-feeding predators) were more successful at
 obtaining prey when light was not severely limited
 by turbidity. Vaas  and Jordan (1991) also noticed
 a. steady increase in Fundulus spp. in the
 Chesapeake Bay over the last 32 years, which they
 attributed to the effects of eutrophication. There
 might be some slight indication of an increase in
 Fundulus spp.  in the Maryland system as well, but
 it might be too early to judge if this is truly
 representing an impact of eutrophication.  It is
 important to recall the great difference in
 watershed area and  resulting nutrient impact on
 the two systems. The Delaware inland bays have
 a watershed to water ratio of 10 to 1, while the
 ratio for the Maryland bays are close to 1 to 1;
 which might go a long way in explaining the
 differences in species dominance.

Therefore, we are reporting here for the first time
that'dominance of shore-zone fish communities by
species from the Family Cyprinodontidae is an
apparent indicator of eutrophication in certain
estuarine systems.
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Table 1.  List of species collected in Maryland's coastal bays between April and October, 1993. Fish, crustaceans, and other
species are listed separately. Total trawl sites = 140, total seine sites = 38.                '
Species
A. Fish
Bay Anchovy
(Anchoa mitchilli)
Atlantic silverside
(jhfenidia menidia)
Spot
(JLeiostomus xanthurtts)
Atlantic menhaden
(Prevoortia tyrannus)
White mullet
QMugil curema)
Golden shiner
(Notemigonus crysoleucas)
Atlantic croaker
(Micropogon undulatus)
Silver perch
(JBairdietla chrysourd)
Weakfish
(Cynoscion regalis)
Summer flounder
(Paralichthys dentatus)
Inshore lizardfish
(Synodusfoetens)
Hogchoker
(Trinectes maculates)
Striped killifish
(pundulus majalis)
Northern puffer
(iSphoeroides maculatus)
Total Number Collected
Trawl Seine Total
n=140 n=38

20,249
27

1,118
23

1

0

894

184
217

222

148

81
0
78

4,331
10,947

1,155
894

2132

959

3

1,056
1

30

90

6
380
72

24,580
10,974

2,273
917

2133

959

897

1,240
218

252

238

87
380
150
Mean CPUE
Trawl Seine

144.6
, 0.2

8.0
0.2

0.01

0.0

6.4

1.3
1.6

1.6

1.1

0.6
0.0
0.6

114.0
288.1

30.4
23.5

56.11

25.2

0.1

27.8
0.03

0.8

2.4

0.2
10.0
1.9
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Species
Striped anchovy
(Anchoa hepsetiis)
Atlantic needlefish "
(Strongylura marina)
Black sea bass
(Centropristis striata)
Northern pipefish
(Syngnaihus fuscus)
Bluefish
(Pomafomus saltatrix)
Blackcheek tonguefish
(Symphurus plagiusa)
Oyster toadfish
(Opsanus tau)
Spotted hake
(Urophycis regius)
Northern searobin
(Prionotus carolinus)
Butterfish
(Peprilus triacahthus)
Rough silverside
(Membras martinica)
Northern kingf ish
(Menticirrhus saxatilis)
Smallmouth flounder
(jEtropus microstomus)
Spotfin mojarra
(JEucinostomus argenteus)
Gag
Total
Trawl
n=140
15
0
10
141
3 ,
: . 4
7
20
16
,13
0
7
20
0
0
Number Collected
Seine Total
n=38
69
69
1
88
28
6
97
0
2
0
361
17
10
17
1
84
69
11
229
31
10
104
20
18
13
361
24
30
17
1
Mean
Trawl
0.1
0.0
0.1
1.0
0.02
0.03
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.0
0.1
0.1
q.o
0.0
CPUE
Seine
1.8
1.8
:o.o3
2.32
0.7
0.2
2.6
0.0
0.1
0.0
9.5
0.5
0.3
0.4
0.03
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Species
Rainwater killifish
(JLuciana parva)
Fourspine stickleback
(Apeltes quadracus)
American eel
(Anguilla rostrata)
Spotted seatrout
(Cynoscion nebulosus)
Winter flounder
(Pseudopleuronectes americanus)
Windowpane flounder
(Scophthalmus aquosus)
Blueback herring
(Alosa aestivalis)
Atlantic herring
(Clupea harengus)
Lookdown
(Selene vomer)
Brown bullhead
(Ameiurus nebulosus)
Striped cusk eel
(Ophidian marginatum)
Crevallejack
(Caranx hippos)
Feather blenny
(ffypsoblennius hentzi)
Tautog
(Tautoga onitis)
Naked goby
Total Number Collected MeanCPUE ,,-•„',
Trawl . Seine Total , Trawl Seine
n=140 n=38
55

74
31

6
15

6
1
1,893 :
2
' :
0

"16
10
1.1
; 3
60
378

39
119

10
26

1
0 .
1
0

2

1
29
15
3
109
433
(
113
150

16
41

• : 7
1
1,894 .
2

2 :

17
39
26 :
6
169
0.4

0.5
0.2

0.04
0.1

0.04
0.01
13.5
' 0-01 ;
. ', ' .
0.0

0.1
0.1
0.1
0.02
0.4
, ... 1.0.0

1,0
•• 3-1

0.3
0.7

. ;. 0.03:
, 0,0
0.03
o.o
, ••' , .,,..
».0.1
,. . • "• ;,-
0.1
0.8
, 0.4
0:1
2.9
(Gobiosoma bosci)
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Species
Lined seahorse
(ffyppocampus erectus)
Red snapper
(Lutjanus campechanus)
Sheepshead minnow
(Cyprinodon variegatus)
Scup
(Stenotomus chrysops)
Striped burrfish
(Chilomycterus schoepfl)
Banded killifish
(fundulus diaphanus)
Black Crappie
(Pomoxis nigromaculatus)
Halfbeak
(Hyporhamphus unifasciatus)
Pumpkinseed
(Lepomis gibbosus)
Bluegill
(Lepomis macrochirus)
Gizzard shad
(jDorosoma cepedianum)
Striped searobin
(Prionotus evolans)
Conger eel
(Conger oceanicus)
Spotifin butterflyfish
(Chaetodon ocellatus)
Red drum
(Sciaenops ocellata)
Skilletfish
(Gobiesox strumosus)
Total Number Collected Mean
Trawl Seine Total Trawl
n=140 , n=38
01 1 0.0
4 9 13 0.03
1 34 35 0.01
13 3 13 0.1
5 6 11 0.04
0 131 131 0.0
0 K 2 2 0.0
0 1 1 0.0
0 53 53 0.0
0.8 8 0.0
2 12 14 0.01
9 8 17 0.1
1 0 1 0.01
1.0 1 0.01
2 0 2 0.01
1 3 4 0,01
CPUE
Seine
0.03
0.2
0.9
0.1
0.2
3.4
0.1
0.03
1.4
0.2
0.3
0.2
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
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Species


Tidewater silverside
(jMenidia beryllina)
Mosquitofish
(Gambusia holbrooki)
Common trunkfish
(jLactophrys trigonus)
Crabeater
(Rachycentron canadus)
Bluespotted sunfish
(Enneacanthus gloriosus)
Bluenose ray
(Myliobatis freminvillei)
Pigfish
(Orthopristis chrysopterd)
Alewife
(Alosa pseudoharengus)
White perch
(fdorone americand)
Smooth butterfly ray
(Gymnura micrurd)
Green goby
(Microgobius thallassinus)
Atlantic spadefish
(Chaetodipterusfaber)
Spanish mackeral
(Scomberomorus cavalla)
Rough scad
(Trachurus trachurus)
Dwarf Goatfish
(Upenus parvus)
Total Number Collected
Trawl Seine Total
n=140 n=38
0 15 15

0 2 2
0 1 1

0 4 4

' 0 2 2
0 4 4
0 11
0 15 15

0 44 44
1 0 1
24 10 34
2 0,2
1 0 1
1 1 2
1 1

Mean
Trawl

0.0

0.0
0.0

0.0

0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0

0.0
0.01
0.2
0.01
0.01
0.01
0.0

CPUE
Seine

0.4

0.1
0.03

0.1

0.1
0.1
. 0.03
0.4

1.2
0.0
0.3
0.0
0.0
0.03
0.02

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Species
Blue crab
(Callinectes sapidus)
Sand shrimp
(Crangon septemspinosa)
Grass shrimp
(Palaemonetes sp.)
Brown shrimp
(jPenaeus aztecus)
Lady crab
(Ovalipes ocellatus)
Mud crab
(ffeopanope texana sqyi)
Hermit crab
(Pagurus longicarpus)
Mantis shrimp
(Squilla empusa)
Spider crab
(Libinia emarginata)
Mud crab
(Panopeus sp.)
Hermit crab
(fagurus pollicaris)
Rock crab
(Cancer irroratus)
Mud shrimp
(Callianassa atlantica)
Total
Trawl
n=140
7,640
9,801
3,136
104
106
35
55
36
36
10
6
58
7
Number Collected
Seine Total
n=38
5,064
123
17,776
22
146
1
30
0
0
0
1
0
1
12,704
9,924
20,912
126
252
36
85
36
36
10
7
58
8
Mean
Trawl
54.6
70.0
22.4
0.7
0.8
0.2
0.4
0.3
0.3
0.1
0.04
0.4
0.05
CPUE
Seine
133.3
3.2
467.8
0.6
3.8
0.03
0.8
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.03
0.0
0.03
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Species


Long-finned squid
(JLoligo pealei)
Forbes asterias star
(Asterias forbesi)
Oyster drill
(Urosalpinx cinereus)
Horseshoe crab
(Limutus polyphemus)
Diamondback terrapin
(Jtfalaclemys centrata concentrica)
Mud snail
(flfassarius vibex)
snail
(flassariidae)
Hard shell clam
(jAercenaria mercenaria)
Lobed moon snail
(jPolinices duplicates)
Mulinia lateralis
Haminoea solitaria
Tellina agilis
Ensis sp.
Solen sp.
Eupleura caudata
CATEGORY
A. Fish
B. Crustaceans
C. Other

Total Number Collected
Trawl
n=140
39
21

2
16

55
43

8

98

1

8
5,310
4
3
5
7
Seine Total
n=38
0 39
0 21

0 2
1 17
. ' ,'i '' - '""
12 67
1 44

1,014 1,022

2 100

0 1

0 8
0 5,310
0 4
0 3
2 7
1 8
TOTAL NUMBERS




50,444
44,194
6.653
101,291
Mean CPUE

Trawl Seine

0.3
0.2

0.01
0.1

0.4
0.3

0.1

0.7

0.01

0.1
37.9
0.03
0.02
0.04
0.1
TOTAL SPECIES
79
13
15
107

0.0
0.0

0.0
0.03

0.3
0.03

26.7

0.1

0.0

0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.03





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         APPENDIX B
 Area-weighted Mean Concentrations
for all Measured Sediment Contaminant
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Appendix Table B-1 . Mean concentrations (90% confidence intervals) of sediment contaminants in
the Delaware/Maryland Coastal Bays and Artificial Lagoons

Metals (ppm)
Aluminum
Antimony
Arsenic
Cadmium
Chromium
Copper
Iron
Lead
Manganese
Mercury
Nickel
Selenium
Silver
Tin
Zinc
SEM-Cadmium
SEM-Copper
SEM-Nickel
SEM-Lead
SEM-Zinc
Pesticides (ppb)
DDT and its metabolites
Total ODD
Total DDE
Total DDT parent
Total DDT
o.p'-DDD
p,p'-DDD
o.p'-DDE
p.p'-DDE
o.p'-DDT
p,p'-DDT
Total OPDDT
Total PPDDT
Coastal Bays

44, 103 ±7,421
0.23 ± 0.09
7.03 ±1.91
0.14 + 0.05
41 .98 ±10.58
9.52 ± 2.81
20,588 ±4,51 9
. 24.1 4 ±5.83
283 ±40 :
0.04 + 0.01
13.93 ±4.65
0.33 + 0.17
0.05 ±0.02
1.82 ±0.41
64.53 ±16,35
0.18 ±0.13
1.39 ±1.12
, 1.71 ±1.03
7.69 ± 4.66
26.50 ±13.58


0.64 ±0.42
1.31 ±0.72
0.20 ±0.1 5
2,15 + 1.09
0.09 ±0.09
0.55 ± 0.35
0.19 ±0.14
1.1 2 ±0.60
0.02 ±0.02
0.18 ±0.15
0.31 ± 0.20
1 .85 + 0.93
Artificial Lagoons
• -• . *
49,605+ 15,371
0.29 ±0.07
10.64 + 2.09
0.20 + 0.05
56.11 ±20.71
40.64 ±10.38
24, 146 ±7,826
34.35 ±6.60
217 + 54.68
0
21.11 ±9.26
0.42 ±0.10
0.12 ±0.03
2.44 ±1.30
107.9 + 28.94
0.13 ±0.31
3.27 ± 2.29
3.16±1.15
7.79 ±1.45
27.68 + 5.41
•

1.71 ±2.17
1.06 ±0.28
0.37 ±0.92
3.14 + 2.91
0.82 ±0.99
0.89 ±1.20
1.06 + 0.28
0
0.18 ±0.44
0.19 ±0.49
2.06 ±1.27
1.08 ±1.68
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Appendix Table B-1. Continued

Chlorinated Pesticides
other than DDT
Aldrin
Alpha-Chlordane
Dieldrin
Endosulfan I
Endosulfan II : -
Endosulfan Sulfate
Endrin .
Endrin Aldehyde
Endrin Ketone
Heptachlor
Heptachlor Epoxide
Hexachlorobenzene
Lindane
Mirex :
Total Chlprdane
Trans-Nonachlor
PCB Cogeners (ppb)
No. 8
No. 1.8.
No. 28
No. 44
No. 52
No. 66
No. 101
No. 105
No. 118
No. 128
No. 138
No. 153
No. 170
No. 180
No. 187
No. 195
No. 206
No. 209
Total RGBs
Coastal Bays


0.15 ±0.17
0.15 ±0.18
0.13 + 0.07
0.40 + 0.37
0.17 + 0.14
0.54 ± 0.09
0.04 + 0.02
0.01 + 0.02
0.14 + 0.17
0.13 + 0.12
0.04 ± 0.05
0.05 ± 0.04
0.20 + 0.15
0.12 + 0.17
0.41 ± 0.39
0.12 ±0.11

0.21 ±0.18
0.23 ±0.18
0.37 ± 0.20
0.07 ± 0.05
0;13±0.09
0.23 + 0.13
0.23 ±0.1 4
0.10 ±0.05
. 0.24 ±0.1 2
0.01 ±0.01
0.21 ±0.1 3
0.32 ±0.13
0.12 ±0.12
0.07 ± 0.06
0.13 + 0.07
0.07 ± 0.07
0.05 ±0.04
0.10 ±0.07
2.89 ±1.04
Artificial Lagoons


0.03 + 0.08
1.21 ±0.39
1.66 ±1.83
0.57 ±0.13
0.06 + 0.16
5.17±1.12
0.65 ±0.16
0.01 +0.03
0.55 + 0.16
0.03 ± 0.07
0
0.63 ±0.41
0.94 + 0.20
0.01 ± 0.03
1.85 ±0.74
0.61 ± 0.33

0.03 + 0.10
0.54 ± 0.38
7.32 ±5.15
2.06 ± 2.96
4.23 ±1.48
0.28 + 0.69
0.1 8 ±0.46
1.1 2 ±0.84
0.1 9 ±0.46
0.27 + 0.72
0.46 ±0.28
0.68 ± 0.89
0.55 + 0.25
0.1 4 ±0.36
0.95 ± 0.59
0.81 ±0.99
0.01 +0.16
0
19.81 + 5.51
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Appendix Table B-1 . Continued

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
(ppb)
Acenapthene
Acenapthylene
Anthracene
Benzo[a]anthracene
Benzo[a]pyrene
Benzo[e]pyrene
Benzo[b,k]fluoranthene
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene
Biphenyl
Chrysene
Dibenz[a,h,]anthracene
2,6-Dimethylnaphthalene
Flouranthene
Fluorene
Inden[1 ,2,3-cd]pyrene
1 -methylnaphthalene
2-methylnaphthalene
1 -methylphenanthrene
Naphthalene
Perylene
Phenanthrene
Pyrene
Total 2-Ring PAHs
Total 3-Ring PAHs
Total 4-Ring PAHs
Total 5-Ring PAHs
Total 6-Ring PAHs
1 ,6,7-trimethylnaphthalene
Total High Mol. Wt PAHs
Total Low Mol. Wt. PAHs
Total PAHs
Other Measurements
Acid Volatile Sulfide (ppm)
Dibutyltin (ppb)
Monobutyltin (ppb)
Tributyltin (ppb)
Total Butyl Tins (ppb)
Total Organic Carbon (ppm)
Coastal Bays


1.38 ±1.06
0.27 ± 0.23
3.87 ± 2.34
8.82 ± 4.38
6.60 ±4.23
8.27 ± 4.26
25.31 ±12.30
10.14 ±5.17
2.11 ±1.51
•: 11.1 2, ±5,06
0.65±'!6.69
,6,33 ±3.10, .,.
' '%1:60 ±12.69';' '."'
" '""•" 4.20 ±2:61'
9.73 ± 5.77
4.23 ± 2.46
11.51 ±5.27
0.57 ±0.74
13.49 ±5.66
26.01 ± 13.87
24.80 ±11. 82
20.48 ±8.50
40.74 ±17.1 3
33.45 ±15.52
60.30 ± 24.98
87.70 ± 43.90
10.14 ±5.17
1.42 ±0.94
158 ±71
74 ±30
232 ± 92

231 ±137
5.56 ±5.1 5
4.38 ± 4.09
15.48 ±14.23
25.42 ±18.25
14,41 5 ±3,844
Artificial Lagoons


2.1 3 ±5.35
0.72 ± 2.07
59.92 ± 63.81
210 ±292
79.46 ±31 .60
94.32 ± 752.49
268.8 ± 90.39
60.00 ±21. 15
0.1 9 ±0.54
385.04 ±21 3. 14
17.96 ±10.1 8
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       APPENDIX E
Benthic Macroinvertebrate Survey
   of Turville Creek, Maryland
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 One of the benefits of the coastal bays project was
 the identification of baseline conditions which
 were established using consistent methods across
 the entire system.  This baseline allows for a
 rigorous, statistically-based evaluation of local
 issues, based upon comparison to a broader
 reference condition than can be achieved with the
 resources typically allocated to evaluation of local
 issues.

 EPA Region HI recently availed itself of that
 benefit to evaluate current benthic
 macroinvertebrate conditions in Turville Creek, a
 small tributary to Assawoman Bay. Residential
 development, including construction of artificial
 lagoons, has been proposed for that area. On 14
 September 1994, 25 benthic invertebrate samples
 were collected in Turville Creek by W. Muir of
 EPA Region III using the same sampling design,
 field methods, and laboratory methods that were
 used in the coastal bays joint assessment A
 summary of those sample results are presented
 here.

 Turville Creek was found to be in poorer condition
 than the coastal bays as a whole, but in better
 condition than artificial lagoons that have already
 been constructed in the coastal bays. The average
 number of species collected per grab in Turville
 Creek was almost two-thirds less than in the
 remaining coastal bays, but was more than twice
 that in artificial lagoons (Table E-l).  Invertebrate
 abundance was about one-sixth that in the
 remaining coastal bays, but twice that of artificial
 lagoons. Biomass was 50 times lower than in the
 coastal bays, but not significantly different from
 the artificial lagoons (Table E-l).

Based on EMAP's benthic index (Schimmel et al.
 1994), 60%  (± 9) of the area in Turville Creek
was estimated to have degraded benthic
invertebrate  communities. This was twice the
percent of area containing degraded benthos in the
rest of the coastal bays (28% ± 8), but
significantly less than that for artificial lagoons
 (85% ± 16).
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