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A: entire region, B: Gulf of Maine (GOM), C: Georges Bank (GB), D: Southern New England (SNE) and E: Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB). The long term trend was estimated from time series of bi-monthly mean abundance in each subregion by removing seasonal variation. Shaded bars represent alternate years.
