Snapshot Day 10/18/11 Data
(Salt Front RM 35.7)
RIVER MILE 53
Garrison Landing Park
Rebecca Schultz, Eric Lind, Constitution Marsh Audubon Center & Sanctuary
Cathy Bakker, Hudson Highlands Land Trust
Kevin Keegan, Garrison Union Free School
7th graders 34 students
411 N - 739 W
Yellow Perch @ Garrison Landing
Location: Garrison Landing Park, Garrison, Putnam County, NY
Area: Waterfront beach area on front of park primarily used for boating & picnics
Surrounding Land Use: Urban/residential 25%, Forested 30%, Beach 5%,
Industrial/Commercial 15%, Recreational 20%
Sampling Site: Pier, shore with bulkhead, riprap, grassy
Plants in area: none
Water depth:
River Bottom – muddy/rocky bottom
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Physical
Air Temperature
10:33 AM
54 F
11:30 AM
61 F
12:30 PM
60 F
1:02 PM
64F
Beaufort #
Force #0
Partly
Knots
0.0097
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Comments
Time
Direction
SE
Weather today
Weather recently
Water Surface
Water
Temperature
cloudy in
AM
No rain
Cool, windy, partly cloudy
calm
10:04 AM
15C
16C
11:30 AM
15C
59 F
60 F
59 F
12:07 PM
16.4C
60 F
1:00 PM
18C
16
17
12 inch
12
12
65 F
60
62
16C
15.5C AVG
59.5 F
17C AVG
62F
Turbidity - secchi
10:04 AM
12 inch
Chlorophyll
Chemical
DO - drop count
pH – color match
& litmus paper
10:30 AM
8 mg/L
Time
Reading
Averages
10:27 AM
6.9
80%
Salinity - quantab
10:23 AM
7
7
6.8
31.5 ppm Cl
Tides
Currents/Time
Time
10:20 AM
11:10 AM
12:15 PM
12:49 PM
Cm/60 secs
Tide Stick
78 cm
99.1 cm
127 cm
142.24 cm
Cm/Sec
rising
rising
rising
Knots
10:25 AM
76.2 cm
1.27
0.24 kts
11:19 AM
350 cm
5.83
0.113 kts.
N/Flood
12:22 PM
228.4
3.81
0.07 kts.
N/Flood
12:56 PM
Seine – 60 ft. X
94.2 ft. pull – ¼
inch mesh
Seine #1
820
TIME
13.7
SPECIES
0.27
CATCH
N/Flood
SIZE/CM
10:15 AM
Pumpkin Seed
7
12 cm
57 ppm
salinity
Ebb/Flood/
Still
TOTALS
Seine #2
10
11:30 AM
TOTALS
Seine #3
6
12:30 PM
TOTALS
Seine #4
3
1:13 PM
TOTALS
Grand Totals
CPUE Seine #1
CPUE Seine #2
CPUE Seine #3
Traffic
Sediment Core
Other Items
3
12
10:15 AM
11:30 AM
12:30 PM
Smallmouth
Bass
Spottail Shiner
Blueback
Herring
Redbellied
Sunfish
White Perch
Yellow Perch
Golden Shiner
Carp
American Eel
Diversity
Pumpkinseed
Sunfish
Spottail Shiner
Blueback
Herring
Golden Shiner
Gizzard Shad
2
28.5
5
56
10.5 cm
8.5 cm
1
12
13
2
1
1
3
91
1
14.5
19
14
13
29.5
catch
10.5 cm
3
8
9.7
7.2
1
4
15.5
11.6
Striped Bass
Diversity
Spottail Shiner
Blueback
Herring
Golden Shiner
Diversity
Spottail Shiner
Blueback
Herring
White Perch
Diversity
Diversity
91 catch
18 catch
26 catch
1
18
1
24
11.5
catch
10 cm
9.5 cm
1
26
2
6
7.5 cm
catch
9.6cm
9.5 cm
1
9
144
0.200
1.02
0.703
6.6
catch
catch