1. Bluegills are small, sporty members of the panfish family which also includes yellow perch, black crappie, and pumpkinseeds

2. “Sunfish (Bluegills and pumpkinseeds) can be found around all types of structure, including weeds, rocks, brush, docks, and overhanging branches

3. The most abundant fish caught in the marsh in recent years have been cyprinids (common carp and hybrids), centrarchids (pumpkinseeds), and clupeids (gizzard shad and alewife), whereas the piscivores such as pike and bass have been exceedingly rare (Kay 1949; Chow-Fraser et al.