Inventory of Tidepool and Estuarine Fishes in Acadia National Park

Kling, Linda; Jordaan, Adrian; University of Maine

From the executive summary: "Acadia National Park (ANP) is part of the Northeast Temperate Network (NETN) of the National Park Service’s Inventory and Monitoring Program. Inventory and monitoring activities supported by the NETN are becoming increasingly important for setting and meeting long-term management goals. Detailed inventories of fishes of estuaries and intertidal areas of ANP are very limited, necessitating the collection of information within these habitats. The objectives of this project were to inventory fish species found in (1) tidepools and (2) estuaries at locations adjacent to park lands on Mount Desert Island and the Schoodic Peninsula over different seasons. The inventories were not intended to be part of a long-term monitoring effort. Rather, the objective was to sample as many diverse habitats as possible in the intertidal and estuarine zones to maximize the resultant species list. Beyond these original objectives, we evaluated the data for spatial and temporal patterns and trends as well as relationships with other biological and physical characteristics of the tidepools and estuaries." //STUDY LOCATIONS//: /MOUNT DESERT ISLAND/Anemone Cave/Bass Head/Bass Head Lighthouse/Dorr Point/Gorham Mountain/Little Hunters Beach/Moose Island/Natural Seawall-North/Natural Seawall-South/Otter Point/Pond Island/Rolling Island/Ship Harbor/Seawall Picnic/Schooner Head Road/Thunder Hole/Thompson Island/Western Point/