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Blue Crab Mortalities Associated With Pesticides, Herbicides, Temperature, Salinity, And Dissolved Oxygen, Willard A. Van Engel

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Commercial fisheries landings of the blue crab in the Chesapeake Bay have fluctuated widely since the late 1920s (Figure I). Records of annual landings prior to 1929 are sparse and permit little more than a guess of trends, although a discontinuous series of catch records from 1907 to 1926 from individual watermen, on file at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), may provide sufficient baseline data for interpretations or estimates of trends in the early period.

Transport Of Bivalve Larvae In The James River, Virginia, Jay D. Andrews

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The James River is the primary source of seed oysters for planting private beds in the Chesapeake Bay. A sharp decline in setting rates after 1960 accompanied cessation of oyster culture on private beds in the lower sector of the river. These broodstocks were eliminated and the beds were barren after 1960. High salinities permitted a new oyster disease caused by Minchinia nelsoni (MSX) to make planting in the lower river hazardous because of high mortalities (Andrews, 1964 and in press).

Studies of larval transport mechanisms were begun in the James River in 1950, and extensive sampling was done from …

Deep-Sea Bottom Fishes Caught On The 14th Cruise Of The R/V Akademik Kurchatov, T. S. Rass, V A. Grigorash, V. D. Spanovskaya, Y. N. Shcherbachev

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Captures of deep-sea fish in waters of the American Mediterranean Sea and adjacent Bahama-Bermuda region of the Atlantic Ocean prior to our work were performed by a series of expeditions: Coast and Geodetic Survey of the USA ("Blake," 1877-1880), New York Zoological Society ("Zaca" and "Arcturus," 1929-1931), Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory of Yale University, USA ("Pawnee," 1927), the Danish Carlsberg Foundation ("Dana," 1920-1922 and 1928-1930), Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, USA ("Oregon," "Oregon II" and others between 1950 and 1960), and the University of Miami ("Pillsbury," 1969). However, only the latter of these expeditions working in the region of the Puerto Rico …

Assessment Of Larval Striped Bass, Morone Saxatilis (Walbaum), Stocks In Maryland And Virginia Waters. Part Ii. Assessment Of Spawning Activity In Major Virginia Rivers. Segment 2. Distribution And Abundance Of Striped Bass Eggs And Larvae In The James And Chickahominy Rivers, Virginia, During Spring 1981 : Draft Final Report, George C. Grant, John E. Olney

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• Segment 1. Distribution and abundance of striped bass eggs and larvae in the upper York River system, Virginia, during spring 1980
• Segment 2. Distribution and abundance of striped bass eggs and larvae in the James and Chickahominy Rivers, Virginia, during spring 1981 : draft final report
• Segment 3. Pt.A. Distribution and abundance of striped bass eggs and larvae in the Rappahannock River during spring, 1982 : final report
• Segment 3. Pt.B. Dorsal and anal pterygiophore interdigitation patterns in four species of Morone (Teleostei, Percichthyidae) : an aid to larval identification