Juvenile Herring Condition Monitoring, Energetics Data, Prince William Sound, 2005-2016, EVOS Herring Program

These data are part of the Herring Program of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council (EVOSTC), which is a multi-faceted study to determine why herring populations in Prince William Sound (PWS) remain depressed since the early 1990s. The dataset archived here represent the Prince William Sound Science Center (PWSSC) component of the Juvenile Herring Condition Monitoring (HCM) project. The data are measures of age-0 herring morphology and energetic condition based on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios and bomb calorimetry of fish sampled from nursery bays located throughout PWS in the fall and spring of each year. This project initially began in 2009 as part of the PWS Herring Survey funded through (EVOSTC) for a period of three years (refer to Supplemental Information for EVOSTC project numbers). In 2012, a five-year herring program called Herring Research and Monitoring, was funded which supported data collection through 2016. This dataset also includes observations of juvenile herring energetic condition that date back to 2005. Thus the time series presented presented here spans 2005-2016. The information is presented as a .csv file generated from a master Access database developed and managed by PWSSC.