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Why Oyster Restoration Goals In The Chesapeake Bay Are Not And Probably Cannot Be Achieved, Roger L. Mann, Eric N. Powell
Why Oyster Restoration Goals In The Chesapeake Bay Are Not And Probably Cannot Be Achieved, Roger L. Mann, Eric N. Powell
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Efforts to restore the native oyster in the Chesapeake Bay enjoy enormous public support and have consumed and continue to consume vast, some would argue unreasonable and unjustifiable, amounts of funding. Despite this support the stated goals of restoration efforts are poorly defined and consequently provide no realistic measures of success in terms of time, space, or biomass. Quantitative approaches used successfully in management of and rebuilding plans for other marine and estuarine species have not been appropriately applied. Basic information in oyster population dynamics and ecology has been inadequately appreciated in defining the quantitative problem. Given these limitations it …