VIMS TRAWL SURVEY CATCH SUMMARY FROM 1955 TO 2004
Month - All - Pooled
River - All - Pooled
No. of  Trawls Made - 33,918
No. of Species - 230
Species	Percent	Catch	Average	Standard	Minimum	Maximum
	of	Per	Length	Error	Length	Length
	Catch	Trawl	(mm)	(length)	(mm)	(mm)
bay anchovy	51.62	247.87	53	0.01	8	138
hogchoker	15.61	74.93	84	0.04	7	260
Atlantic croaker	8.77	42.1	100	0.12	3	584
spot	7.4	35.54	120	0.06	10	391
white perch	4.16	19.97	126	0.11	11	445
weakfish	2.54	12.2	110	0.13	5	700
blue crab	2.44	11.4	72	0.07	0	220
spotted hake	0.63	3.04	121	0.17	20	388
white catfish	0.56	2.69	176	0.37	15	753
silver perch	0.44	2.1	129	0.17	18	320
northern searobin	0.42	2.01	88	0.14	12	379
blackcheek tonguefish	0.42	2	108	0.17	14	239
blue catfish	0.41	1.96	197	0.42	19	616
Atlantic menhaden	0.4	1.9	95	0.24	17	375
blueback herring	0.36	1.74	72	0.13	20	310
striped anchovy	0.32	1.55	75	0.15	22	254
channel catfish	0.25	1.22	183	0.62	15	607
summer flounder	0.25	1.19	209	0.47	12	680
Atlantic silverside	0.25	1.18	89	0.1	24	140
alewife	0.24	1.16	94	0.2	22	301
oyster toadfish	0.22	1.05	183	0.43	20	448
American eel	0.21	1.01	275	0.55	39	920
striped bass	0.2	0.98	136	0.5	13	880
kingfish	0.19	0.9	81	0.3	6	348
scup	0.17	0.83	97	0.24	21	351
smallmouth flounder	0.17	0.81	78	0.12	14	172
squid	0.16	0.78	32	0.14	5	265
butterfish	0.1	0.48	91	0.34	10	236
spottail shiner	0.1	0.47	81	0.21	10	211
gizzard shad	0.1	0.46	160	0.6	32	437
naked goby	0.07	0.35	40	0.12	0	126
black seabass	0.07	0.34	111	0.4	20	354
inshore lizardfish	0.05	0.26	152	0.52	17	375
harvestfish	0.05	0.24	58	0.34	6	306
northern pipefish	0.04	0.22	135	0.44	7	324
American shad	0.04	0.21	106	0.41	30	465
Atlantic herring	0.04	0.19	111	1.69	29	372
brown bullhead	0.04	0.18	199	0.76	15	368
northern kingfish	0.03	0.14	90	0.81	15	317
southern kingfish	0.03	0.14	103	0.78	12	352
northern puffer	0.03	0.14	109	0.77	11	292
searobins	0.03	0.13	97	0.48	17	210
red hake	0.02	0.11	141	0.94	33	404
mantis shrimp	0.02	0.11	83	0.45	25	161
tessellated darter	0.02	0.11	70	0.22	15	105
windowpane	0.02	0.11	139	1.03	17	654
Atlantic thread herring	0.02	0.1	73	0.75	29	222
Atlantic spadefish	0.02	0.07	79	0.9	13	535
striped searobin	0.01	0.07	95	1.06	19	315
threadfin shad	0.01	0.07	87	0.41	11	290
clearnose skate	0.01	0.06	389	1.97	79	704
pigfish	0.01	0.05	149	0.81	26	274
silver hake	0.01	0.05	142	1.23	27	410
white shrimp	0.01	0.05	113	0.62	40	195
eastern silvery minnow	0.01	0.05	99	0.46	51	142
cancer irroratus	0.01	0.05	35	0.5	6	148
lined seahorse	0.01	0.04	79	0.67	24	177
feather blenny	0.01	0.04	70	0.54	21	189
bluefish	0.01	0.04	180	2.14	22	820
skilletfish	0.01	0.03	49	0.38	16	155
dusky pipefish	0.01	0.03	136	3.31	58	298
striped cusk-eel	0.01	0.03	142	1.24	37	382
winter flounder	0.01	0.03	161	3.22	29	481
brown shrimp	0.01	0.02	109	0.89	35	183
pinfish	0	0.02	82	1.66	23	280
hake	0	0.02	125	4.86	37	271
conger eel	0	0.02	320	4.15	74	898
green goby	0	0.02	40	0.36	7	69
seaboard goby	0	0.02	38	0.3	19	58
shorthead redhorse	0	0.02	261	6.78	33	413
banded drum	0	0.01	64	1.76	13	223
common carp	0	0.01	437	8.49	29	935
golden shiner	0	0.01	127	1.39	67	198
hickory shad	0	0.01	102	2.47	37	330
spider crab	0	0.01	63	2.79	52	80
black drum	0	0.01	205	4.04	53	1017
inland silverside	0	0.01	80	0.79	41	111
fawn cusk-eel	0	0.01	125	2.5	52	244
spotted seatrout	0	0.01	146	4.27	21	390
tautog	0	0.01	289	6.41	70	562
longnose gar	0	0.01	698	13.11	71	1175
margined madtom	0	0.01	130	2.11	35	187
black crappie	0	0.01	53	2.59	22	291
Atlantic cutlassfish	0	0.01	363	10.43	58	915
fringed flounder	0	0.01	111	1.37	35	159
bluntnose stingray	0	0.01	390	17.86	156	1960
sea lamprey	0	0.01	153	1.27	84	196
Spanish mackerel	0	0.01	90	4.19	21	384
spiny dogfish	0	0.01	788	7.88	77	1104
red drum	0	0.01	89	4.82	26	399
northern stargazer	0	0.01	69	3.42	1	253
horseshoe crab	0	0.01	240	3.02	122	352
orange filefish	0	0.01	378	9.27	26	500
round herring	0	0.01	57	0.7	20	93
fourspine stickleback	0	0.01	50	1.16	33	95
pink shrimp	0	0	93	1.79	38	158
yellow perch	0	0	115	3.64	29	280
star drum	0	0	80	1.82	35	160
spiny butterfly ray	0	0	572	26.81	38	2000
pipefish	0	0	147	5.1	55	330
Atlantic moonfish	0	0	74	1.94	34	135
pumpkinseed	0	0	108	2.87	34	163
striped mullet	0	0	184	3.87	27	401
smooth dogfish	0	0	551	17.57	225	1201
silversides	0	0	77	2.53	30	119
lookdown	0	0	83	2.97	27	162
striped burrfish	0	0	190	6.07	76	340
rough silverside	0	0	84	2.92	32	108
herring	0	0	63	3.98	34	82
blue runner	0	0	60	8.36	22	247
lady crab	0	0	71	4.04	18	142
striped blenny	0	0	65	1.74	32	100
cownose ray	0	0	515	27.82	124	1165
fourspot flounder	0	0	84	3.58	32	147
smooth butterfly ray	0	0	541	23.98	315	1150
gobies	0	0	34	1.41	14	57
johnny darter	0	0	68	2.06	47	93
bluegill	0	0	82	6.1	3	185
southern stingray	0	0	440	29.13	143	1025
Atlantic stingray	0	0	313	15.97	113	635
bighead searobin	0	0	73	5.21	25	190
planehead filefish	0	0	124	16.95	34	450
white hake	0	0	116	9.85	67	418
Atlantic sturgeon	0	0	441	30.73	85	997
minnow	0	0	87	2.08	47	110
sheepshead	0	0	205	25.62	70	601
silver seatrout	0	0	167	5.32	49	260
spotted whiff	0	0	85	3.54	32	129
bullnose ray	0	0	445	26.06	264	820
king mackerel	0	0	.	.	.	.
threespine stickleback	0	0	56	2	20	82
chain pipefish	0	0	224	13.7	66	371
bluespotted cornetfish	0	0	270	20.63	117	541
least brook lamprey	0	0	149	2.57	123	175
little skate	0	0	364	10.17	248	457
crevalle jack	0	0	115	8.31	37	188
striped killifish	0	0	96	6.61	41	156
rough scad	0	0	90	8.22	53	147
gray snapper	0	0	88	3.6	48	124
sandbar shark	0	0	536	18.84	369	690
banded killifish	0	0	58	5.36	26	136
mummichog	0	0	63	3.39	34	102
mullet	0	0	127	14.28	67	217
Trachypenaeus constrictus	0	0	59	4.48	42	130
stingrays	0	0	378	63.64	114	750
groupers & sea basses	0	0	161	.	161	161
spotfin mojarra	0	0	83	5.1	39	116
cobia	0	0	331	67.94	119	960
quillback	0	0	265	28.18	97	403
spotfin butterflyfish	0	0	56	3.78	33	79
silver jenny	0	0	77	2.64	54	97
amphioxus	0	0	43	2.46	29	58
bigeye scad	0	0	140	8.13	63	187
white mullet	0	0	167	13.26	66	230
Florida pompano	0	0	170	7.03	131	214
northern sennet	0	0	120	15.85	65	201
spotted eagle ray	0	0	502	58.34	292	974
sheepshead minnow	0	0	38	3.22	20	58
specimen unidentified	0	0	84	16.69	29	160
roughtail stingray	0	0	466	73.51	58	824
satinfin shiner	0	0	107	7.23	90	162
rock seabass	0	0	144	7.89	89	169
sturgeon	0	0	553	33.93	450	645
rainwater killifish	0	0	26	1.89	20	34
creek chubsucker	0	0	267	39.61	142	391
tadpole madtom	0	0	70	3.18	66	76
gag	0	0	185	5.99	164	203
common shiner	0	0	103	8.11	75	132
Ovalipes guadulpensis	0	0	83	20.83	29	132
eastern mudminnow	0	0	52	3.48	40	61
bluespotted sunfish	0	0	59	7.58	46	88
white grunt	0	0	161	12.85	110	178
guaguanche	0	0	113	15.55	69	154
winter skate	0	0	398	31.63	332	477
Atlantic needlefish	0	0	143	26.59	98	190
banded rudderfish	0	0	116	32.3	30	178
northern sand lance	0	0	138	12.49	120	162
bowfin	0	0	501	89.81	245	665
northern hog sucker	0	0	196	16.63	147	221
Atlantic threadfin	0	0	146	14.25	125	188
Atlantic mackerel	0	0	357	1.5	355	358
cunner	0	0	.	.	.	.
American sand lance	0	0	133	17.16	99	154
Atlantic bumper	0	0	44	11.29	28	66
dwarf goatfish	0	0	50	3.79	44	57
cutlassfishes	0	0	92	5.93	83	103
conger eels	0	0	57	6.69	44	65
pollock	0	0	104	8.5	95	112
rock crab	0	0	21	10	11	31
smooth puffer	0	0	86	4.5	81	90
triggerfishes	0	0	40	8.5	31	48
Atlantic angel shark	0	0	1155	5	1150	1160
flat needlefish	0	0	85	16	69	101
round scad	0	0	82	13.5	68	95
goosefish	0	0	544	14	530	558
polka-dot cusk-eel	0	0	129	.	129	129
horse-eye jack	0	0	134	4	130	138
sunfishes	0	0	111	.	111	111
American brook lamprey	0	0	161	5	156	166
white crappie	0	0	137	23.5	113	160
mottled mojarra	0	0	107	1.5	105	108
bull chub	0	0	85	15	70	100
catfishes	0	0	32	.	32	32
yellow bullhead	0	0	210	.	210	210
spotfin killifish	0	0	31	.	31	31
flier	0	0	83	.	83	83
Atlantic torpedo	0	0	530	.	530	530
redbreast sunfish	0	0	30	.	30	30
Atlantic tomcod	0	0	.	.	.	.
gray triggerfish	0	0	287	.	287	287
red goatfish	0	0	58	.	58	58
ladyfish	0	0	.	.	.	.
permit	0	0	.	.	.	.
smallmouth bass	0	0	157	.	157	157
bluehead chub	0	0	90	.	90	90
short bigeye	0	0	23	.	23	23
sharksucker	0	0	394	.	394	394
spottail pinfish	0	0	130	.	130	130
seaweed blenny	0