Fig. 1. Population sex ratios (number of males/number of females) for Syngnathus fuscus (black) and Syngnathus floridae (white) collected in the Chincoteague Bay, VA, USA during the 2003 (broken line) and 2004 (solid line) reproductive seasons. Sample sizes ranged from a minimum of 88 Syngnathus fuscus collected in September 2004 to 859 individuals of the same species counted in June 2004.