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Channeled Whelk Assessment, R. A. Fisher, Richard B. Robins Jr.
Channeled Whelk Assessment, R. A. Fisher, Richard B. Robins Jr.
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The channeled whelk, Busycotypus canaliculatus, was sampled from three in‐shore commercially harvested resource areas in the US Mid‐Atlantic: off Ocean City, Maryland (OC); Eastern Shore of Virginia (ES); and Virginia Beach, Virginia (VB). The largest whelk measured 230mm shell length (SL) and was recorded from OC. Mean SL was largest in OC site (158.1mm), followed by ES (137.6mm), then VB (132.4mm). Both VB and ES populations showed a unimodal length‐frequency distribution with the single peak at shell length less than MLS for those regions, while OC population showed a bimodal (two peaks) distribution with the smaller peak at shell length …