American shad are anadromous fish that spend the majority of their life at sea and only enter freshwater in the spring to spawn.
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The Maryland Department of Natural Resources regularly conducts surveys to reveal life below the surface.
These types of surveys have long been beneficial to fisheries biologists as a way to study fish in near-shore environments, revealing the considerable variety of life just below the surface. The department uses seine net surveys for various annual and periodic research efforts. With different mesh sizes and study areas, these surveys can be developed to capture different types of fish for closer inspection or contribute to valuable data collection.
The Estuarine Fish Community Sampling Study, Juvenile Striped Bass Survey, Shad Restoration, and Coastal Bays Seine Surveys are four major projects that utilize seine nets to gather data. In each survey, biologists pull the net through the water in a uniform way and identify and record details about the organisms that come up in the net. Read the full article here: ow.ly/8b6J50YEuJq