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Marine Biology

1999

Fisheries

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Interannual Decline, Compensatory Exploitation, And Conservation Of The Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Population In Winter, Rom Lipcius, Marcel M. Montane Dec 1999

Interannual Decline, Compensatory Exploitation, And Conservation Of The Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Population In Winter, Rom Lipcius, Marcel M. Montane

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A Comparative Field Study Of Crassostrea Gigas And Crassostrea Virginica In Relation To Salinity In Virginia, Gustavo W. Calvo, Mark Luckenbach, Eugene M. Burreson Jan 1999

A Comparative Field Study Of Crassostrea Gigas And Crassostrea Virginica In Relation To Salinity In Virginia, Gustavo W. Calvo, Mark Luckenbach, Eugene M. Burreson

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Laws, Regulations, And Environmental Factors And Their Potential Effects On The Stocks And Fisheries For The Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus, In The Chesapeake Bay Region, 1888-1940, Willard A. Van Engel Jan 1999

Laws, Regulations, And Environmental Factors And Their Potential Effects On The Stocks And Fisheries For The Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus, In The Chesapeake Bay Region, 1888-1940, Willard A. Van Engel

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In the period 1880 to 1940. the blue crab fisheries of Chesapeake Bay evolved from a relati\·ely small industry to one having a significant economic impact on watennen, processors and shippers, and the coastal communities, and the need for studied legislation and administration of the industry. The growth of the fishery resulted also in a need for well thought out science based on legislation and administrati011 of the fishery. This text examines whether any of several variables had effects on the stocks and the successes or failures of the fisheries. with the aim of more infom1ed planning of scientific studies, …