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  Hoffler Creek Project: Field Sampling
   
   
 

In summer 2008 we sampled killifish (primarily mummichog Fundulus heteroclitus) using minnow traps in Hoffler Creek, Portsmoutn, Virginia, at low tide and in the marsh at high tide, collecting over 700 fish in fourteen days in the field. 

   
   
 
 
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During the fall, we will be analyzing the stomach contents of these fish in the lab and comparing the quantity of food in the fishes’ stomachs and the diet items they consume while in the two habitat types. 

Data will be announced as project nears completion.