Description |
xviii, 459 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
Series |
American Fisheries Society symposium, 0892-2284 ; 22 |
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American Fisheries Society symposium ; 22
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Contents |
Pt. 1. Essential Fish Habitat Perspectives. Essential fish habitat: opportunities and challenges for the next millennium -- An environmentalist's perspective on essential fish habitat -- Conserving fish habitat from the seafood perspective -- Impacts of mobile fishing gear: the biodiversity perspective. Pt. 2. Essential fish habitat identification. Nekton densities in shallow estuarine habitats of Texas and Louisiana and the identification of essential fish habitat -- Life history, habitat parameters, and essential habitat of Mid-Atlantic summer flounder -- Identification of essential fish habitat for salmon in the Pacific Northwest: initial efforts, information needs, and future direction -- Suitability modeling to delineate habitat essential to sustainable fisheries -- Measures of juvenile fish habitat quality: examples from a National Estuarine Research Reserve. Pt. 3. Fishing impacts on fish habitats. The effects of fishing on fish habitat -- Fish habitat: a focus on New England fishermen's perspectives -- Importance of benthic habitat complexity for demersal fish assemblages -- The significance of seabed disturbance by mobile fishing gear relative to natural processes: a case study in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Pt. 4. Nonfishing impacts on fish habitats. Fish habitat and coastal restoration in Louisiana -- Remote sensing of forest-clearing effects on essential fish habitat of Pacific Salmon -- Addressing nonfishing threats to habitat through public and private partnerships -- Habitat-based assessment of lobster abundance: a case study of an oil spill -- Human-induced nonfishing threats to essential fish habitat in the New England region. Pt. 5. Fish habitat rehabilitation and socioeconomic issues- focus on the Great Lakes. Fish habitat rehabilitation and conservation in the Great Lakes: moving from opportunism to scientifically defensible management -- Artificial reefs in Lake Erie: biological impacts of habitat alteration -- The economic value of the Lorain County, Ohio, artificial reef -- Identifying habitats essential for Pike Esox lucius L. in the Long point Region of Lake Erie: a suitable supply approach. Pt. 6. Fish habitat rehabilitation and socioeconomic issues. Fish utilisation of restored, created, and reference salt-marsh habitat in the Gulf of Maine -- Coastal wetland restoration and its potential impact on fishery resources in the Northeastern United States -- A case for shelter replacement in a disturbed spiny lobster nursery in Florida: why basic research had to come first -- The role of the oyster reefs as essential fish habitat: a review of current knowledge and some new perspectives |
Notes |
"Proceedings of the Sea Grant Symposium on Fish Habitat: 'Essential Fish Habitat' and Rehabilitation, held at Hartford, Connecticut, USA, 26-27 August 1998." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Fishes -- Habitat -- Congresses.
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Fish habitat improvement -- Congresses.
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Fishes -- Habitat -- United States -- Congresses.
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Fish habitat improvement -- United States -- Congresses.
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Benaka, Lee R.
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American Fisheries Society.
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LC no. |
98088572 |
ISBN |
1888569123 |
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