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Virginia Marine Trades Workforce Training -A Regional Needs Assessment, Thomas J. Murray

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No abstract provided.

The Status Of Virginia's Public Oyster Resource 2003, Melissa Southworth, Juliana Harding, Roger L. Mann

Reports

This report summarizes data collected during 2003 in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay. The report is comprised of two parts, part one, oyster recruitment (shell string) in Virginia and part two, dredge survey of selected oyster bars in Virginia.

Development Of Grow Out Techniques Utilizing The Water Column In Growing A Non Native Oyster (Crassostrea Arikensis), Andy Drewer

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This project addressed grow out techniques utilizing the water column in growing non native oysters (Crassostrea arikensis) in a containerized manner. The purpose of this project was to evaluate the cost effectiveness of growing, in commercial quantities for the processing segment of the industry, a non- native oyster in different types of stackable trays suspended in the upper water column by a raft.

Estimation Of Juvenile Striped Bass Relative Abundance In The Virginia Portion Of Chesapeake Bay, January 2003-December 2003 : Annual Progress Report, Herbert M. Austin, A. Dean Estes, Donald M. Seaver, Amanda H. Hewitt

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The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) has conducted a juvenile striped bass seine survey from 1967 through 1973 and from 1980 through the present. The primary objective has been the monitoring of the relative annual recruitment success ofjuvenile stripedbass in the spawning and nursery areas of Lower Chesapeake Bay. Initially (1967-1973), the survey was funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and when reinstated in 1980 with funding from the National Marine Fisheries Service under the Emergency Striped Bass Study program. Commencing with the 1988 annual survey, support of the program has been jointly made through the Sportfish …

Assessing The Economic Importance Of Commercial Fisheries In The Mid-Atlantic Region: A User's Guide To The Mid-Atlantic Input/Output Model, James E. Kirkley, Winnie Ryan, John Duberg

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The Mid-Atlantic input/output (I/O) model is designed to estimate the economic impacts associated with the harvesting of fish1 by commercial fishermen whose landings occur in a six-state region stretching from New York to North Carolina. These impacts are expressed in terms of employment (annual average jobs—both full and part-time jobs), labor income, and output (sales by U.S. businesses).

In addition to generating estimates of economic impacts for the Mid-Atlantic region, the model estimates these impacts for 12 subregions within this region. The subregions are defined by counties within the six-state Mid-Atlantic region. Individual states have from one to three subregions. …

Discard Reduction Concerning Selectivity And Overall Gear Design In The Black Sea Bass, Centropristis S(Fiata, Trap Fishery, Robert A. Fisher, David Rudders, James Dawson

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No abstract provided.

Whale Safe Gillnets, David C. Walker, Fv Nelson Seafood

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A grant from the Virginia Sea Grant program to test some modified gillnets to find ways of fishing that would allow whales to break free from our fishing gear.