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Marine Resource Bulletin Vol. 19, No. 3, Virginia Sea Grant, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Marine Resource Bulletin

Contents

Rock fish, striper, striped bass

No easy answers

Striped Bass Research Projects

Stock assessment laboratory established

People on the Water

How the VMRC works (and manages the striped bass .fishery)

Description of a tidal marsh

Managing Virginia's Wetlands

Fish House Kitchen

Marine Notes

Marine Resource Bulletin Vol. 19, No. 2, Virginia Sea Grant, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Marine Resource Bulletin

Contents

Marine Notes

Survey Results

Marketing Seafood

Marine Products Board

Farm Fresh

Tech Seafood Lab

Captian George's

People on the Water

Handle with Care

M&G Transportation

Fish House Kitchen

Marine Resource Bulletin Vol. 19, No. 1, Virginia Sea Grant, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Marine Resource Bulletin

Contents

Marine notes

A little weather

Research links wind and fish

Dr. Duane Harding

Weather wise Virginia

Will the hurricane hit

Nil Sig Wx

Fishing from satellites

Northeasters & high tides

Fish house kitchen

Reader survey/renewal

Chesapeake Bay Fisheries: An Overview, Herbert M. Austin

VIMS Books and Book Chapters

The value of the marine resources of the Chesapeake Bay is second only to its value as a transportation corridor. The oyster, blue crab and striped bass or rock fish, along with the sailboat, epitomize our vision of the Bay. Nowhere else do such important renewable natural resources co-exist so closely to man's residential and industrial activities.

Over time, all natural resource distribution and abundance fluctuates in response to a normally fluctuating environment. Man's harvest adds an additional pressure, and in some cases recruitment levels cannot keep pace with consumer demand. In the Bay, pollutants, both intentional point source discharge, …

The American Oyster Crassostrea Virginica In Cheapeake Bay, Dexter Haven

VIMS Books and Book Chapters

The American Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) is widely distributed in Chesapeake Bay where it grows in the intertidal zone to depths of about 6.5 m. The salinity range over which it occurs, is from about 5 to 34 ° /oo. It is most abundant in protected embayments where bottoms are a firm sand-clay mixed with shelly material. This bivalve is a filter feeder, and ingests planktonic material which it strains from the water with its gills. Spawning occurs in Chesapeake Bay from June through September, and the eggs and resulting larvae are widely distributed during their 10-20 day planktonic life.

Growth …

A Socio-Economic Overview Of The Chesapeake Bay Fisheries, James E. Kirkley

VIMS Books and Book Chapters

The marine resources of the Chesapeake Bay are believed to provide substantial benefit to residents of the State of Maryland and Virginia. However, the possibility of overfishing and degradation of the marine environment seriously jeopardizes the possible benefit . In thsi section, a brief overview of the economic importance and characteristics of the Chesapeake Bay marine resources is presented. The potential for economic lossee are discussed relative to observed economic values.

Marine Resource Bulletin Vol. 18, No. 4, Virginia Sea Grant, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Marine Resource Bulletin

Contents

Marine notes

Estuarine circulation

Layman's guide to models

People on the water

James River Models

ODU's sailor/scientists

Fish house kitchen