Table 4. Species from demersal fish and benthic surveys using the same methods across both the Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy and the Virginian ecoregions of the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem.

	Ecoregion	Fish - Shelf	Invertebrates - Shelf	Invertebrates – Upper Slope
I. Species numbers	GoM only	9	220	49
	Both	145	619	59
	Virginian only	219	499	59
II. Number of samples	GoM	5,579	2,091	42
	Virginian	6,973	3,079	94

Notes: The numbers are species unique to each ecoregion, or that occur in both.