Sleepy Creek/Straits Fall Animal Data

Description	Sleepy Creek Animal Data	Sleepy Creek Chemical Data	Summary
Pictures	Middens Animal Data	Middens Chemical Data

Matt bringing up the trawling net doors to see if any fish were caught after putting the net out to catch fish. Nathan holding up the net for partners to help him find if they had any fish or sea animals were caught  in the net.
Sleepy Creek/Straits Fall 2002 Number of Each Species
Date	Site#	pin fish	silver side	flounder	menhaden	lizard fish	silver perch	mulhara	shrimp	squid
10/7/02	1-O	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/7/02	2-O	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/7/02	3-O	0	0	1	7	1	0	0	0	0
10/7/02	4-O	0	2	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
10/7/02	5-O	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	total	1	4	1	12	1	0	0	0	0
10/7/02	6-C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/7/02	7-C	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0
10/7/02	8-C	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
10/7/02	9-C	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
10/7/02	10-C	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	total	4	4	0	1	0	0	5	6	1

Data Analysis

           Is the number of fish that were caught in Sleepy Creek in the fall different than the number of fish caught in Straits?  We used a statistical t-test to analyze our data. We found that there was no difference in the number of fish caught in Straits and Sleepy Creek.  We did accept the Null Hypothesis.  The number of fish that was caught in Sleepy Creek closed was just 1 which was 21 from the amount of fish caught in Straits open that was 20.  In the fall and summer combined we rejected the Null hypothesis.  The number of fish that were caught in Sleepy Creek was 95.1 and in Straits was 39.  The Null hypothesis states that there is no difference but we proved it to not be true.