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Assessing Biodiversity at Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Aquaculture and Reef Sites Utilizing Real‐Time Monitoring and Environmental DNA in Rehoboth Bay, Delaware, USA [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionEastern Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) are a keystone species and an important product of the commercial shellfish industry in Delaware. Oysters are known as “environmental engineers” that provide a structured habitat for the ecosystem, thus promoting ...
Tahera Attarwala +2 more
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Establishing company level fishing revenue and profit losses from fisheries: A bottom-up approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 A third of global fish stocks are overexploited and many are economically underperforming, resulting in potential unrealized net economic benefits of USD 51 to 83 billion annually.
Tim Cashion +5 more
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COI amplicon sequence data of environmental DNA collected from the Bronx River Estuary, New York City [PDF]
Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, 2022 In this data paper, we describe environmental DNA (eDNA) cytochrome c oxidase (COI) amplicon sequence data from New York City’s Bronx River Estuary.
Eugenia Naro-Maciel +4 more
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Food supplementation increases reproductive performance of ospreys in the lower Chesapeake Bay
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), the governing body responsible for managing fisheries on the U.S. East Coast, formally adopted the use of Ecological Reference Points (ERPs) for Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus.
Michael H. Academia, Bryan D. Watts
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Temperature and somatic growth effects on otolith growth of larval Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus (Actinopterygii: Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) [PDF]
Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2012 Background. If a link exists between somatic and otolith growth, otolith size and microstructure analysis can be a useful tool in studies of larval fish growth and condition—methods like growth back-calculation or marginal increment width ...
D.P. Fey, J.A. Hare
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The Path to an Ecosystem Approach for Forage Fish Management: A Case Study of Atlantic Menhaden
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) support the largest fishery by volume on the United States East Coast, while also playing an important role as a forage species. Managers’ and stakeholders’ increasing concerns about the impact of Atlantic menhaden
Kristen A. Anstead +32 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 The south Atlantic coast supports one of the highest assemblages of non-breeding double-crested cormorants (Nannopterum auritum) known and is a convergence area for Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) during the winter months.
Bryan D. Watts +3 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Atlantic menhaden is an important forage fish and the target of the largest fishery along the US East Coast by volume. Since 1999, managers at the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, stakeholders, and scientists have been interested in ...
Katie Drew +7 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 States in the Northeast United States have the ambitious goal of producing more than 22 GW of offshore wind energy in the coming decades. The infrastructure associated with offshore wind energy development is expected to modify marine habitats and ...
Kevin D. Friedland +9 more
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Ecology and Society, 2021 Marine fisheries represent a social-ecological system driven by both complex ecological processes and human interactions. Ecosystem-based fisheries management requires an understanding of both the biological and social components, and management failure ...
Anne A. Innes-Gold +6 more
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