The NOAA ship DELAWARE II sampled a total of 64 stations located in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank for the Winter Ecosystem Monitoring Survey. Of these, 58 were randomly stratified stations, five were fixed stations in the Gulf of Maine and two were non-randomly chosen stations, placed to improve coverage when the vessel missed random stations due to weather constraints. Three of the fixed stations were located in the Wilkinson, Jordan and Georges basins, one was at the site of a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal outside of Boston Harbor, and one hydrographic (CTD only) station was in the Northeast Channel

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