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Tray Studies Of Oyster Diseases On Eastern Shore Of Virginia, 1959 To 1981 : Mortality And Disease Prevalence Of Sso And Msx, Jay D. Andrews

Reports

Compilation of data records from MSX and SSO oyster disease tray experiments conducted in various seaside bays of Virginia's Eastern Shore between 1959 and 1981.

Status Of The Virginia Public Oyster Fishery - Spring 1991, Bruce Barber

Reports

This report summarizes data collected during 1991 in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay. The report focuses on the spring oyster survey in Virginia.

Fish Assemblages At A Deep-Water Sewage Disposal Site (Dwd-106) : A Final Contract Report, J. A. Musick, J. C. Defosse, E. D. Grogan

Reports

Deep-water dumpsite 106 is located over the continental slope and rise about 106 miles east of New Jersey (Fig. 1). From March 1986 to July 1992 approximately eight million wet metric tons of sewage sludge were disposed there per year (Robertson and Redford, 1992). Because of the potential impact of this dumping on deep-sea ecosystems, NOAA/NMFS contracted the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary (VIMS) to make otter-trawl collections in and around DWD 106 in 1990 and 1991. Specific objectives of these collections were:

1. To sample the demersal megafauna, especially fishes;

2. To provide frozen …