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Getting Started With The Water Harvest Program A Guide For Watermen To Make More For Their Catch By Selling Direct At Farmers’ Markets, Jimmy Hogge, Paige Hogge
Getting Started With The Water Harvest Program A Guide For Watermen To Make More For Their Catch By Selling Direct At Farmers’ Markets, Jimmy Hogge, Paige Hogge
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Virginia Shellfish Aquaculture Situation And Outlook Report : Results Of The 2005-2007 Virginia Shellfish Aquaculture Crop Reporting Survey, Thomas J. Murray, Michael J. Oesterling
Virginia Shellfish Aquaculture Situation And Outlook Report : Results Of The 2005-2007 Virginia Shellfish Aquaculture Crop Reporting Survey, Thomas J. Murray, Michael J. Oesterling
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Continued growth of the shellfish aquaculture industry in Virginia has added significant value to the state’s seafood marketplace. Today, watermen continue to harvest both hard clams and oysters from the state’s public resources, albeit at diminished rates. At the same time, Virginia’s watermen-farmers are providing growing quantities of additional quality shellfish to consumers. Following the lead of the hard clam industry, there has been a significant transition to intensive aquaculture of native oysters in recent years. The once extensive oyster planting has disappeared primarily as a result of endemic oyster diseases and increasing wildlife predation of seed oysters. In its …
Conference Proceedings Water Access 2007: A National Symposium On Working Waterways & Waterfronts, Virginia Sea Grant
Conference Proceedings Water Access 2007: A National Symposium On Working Waterways & Waterfronts, Virginia Sea Grant
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Virginia Game Fish Tagging Program Annual Report 2006, John A. Lucy, C.M. Bain Iii
Virginia Game Fish Tagging Program Annual Report 2006, John A. Lucy, C.M. Bain Iii
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The Virginia Game Fish Tagging Program (VGFTP), initiated in 1995, coordinates tagging and a tag-recapture fish database generated through contributed efforts of a dedicated corps of trained marine anglers. Through 2006, the program’s database includes over 103,000 tagged fish records of tag-released fish and approximately over 10,300 recapture records (Table 4).