ABSTRACT:The relationship between the growth of early juvenile winter flounder (Psuedopleuronectes americanus, Walbaum; 17 to 27 mm standard length [SL]) and the spatial dynamics of estuarine gradients immediately following larval settlement was examined using field enclosure techniques in a temperate nursery. Enclosures (n = 60; 3 fish per enclosure) were deployed throughout the Navesink River/Sandy Hook Bay estuarine system, New Jersey, in a nested spatial design that allowed measurement of growth variation in time at 3 spatial scales (between regions: × -distance [D]

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