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Modeled Flooding by Tsunamis and a Storm Versus Observed Extent of Coral Erratics on Anegada, British Virgin Islands—Further Evidence for a Great Caribbean Earthquake Six Centuries Ago

open access: yesJournal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 129, Issue 3, March 2024.
Abstract Models of near‐field tsunamis and an extreme hurricane provide further evidence for a great precolonial earthquake along the Puerto Rico Trench. The models are benchmarked to brain‐coral boulders and cobbles on Anegada, 125 km south of the trench.
Yong Wei   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minimizing Vessel Strikes to Endangered Whales: A Crash Course in Conservation Science and Policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The North Atlantic right whale is one of the most endangered of all large whales: about 350-400 individuals remain. Species recovery is, in part, contingent on reducing vessel-strike mortality.
Brown, Moira W, Wiley, David N
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IDENTIFICACIÓN MOLECULAR DE POBLACIONES BACTERIANAS ASOCIADAS AL CARACOL PALA (Strombus gigas) DEL CARIBE COLOMBIANO

open access: yesActa Biológica Colombiana, 2009
RESUMEN El caracol Pala, Strombus gigas (Strombidae), es de gran importancia ecológica y socioeconómica en el área caribeña colombiana. Sin embargo, es una especie catalogada como “vulnerable” y existe muy poca información referente a las especies ...
EDINSON ACOSTA   +4 more
doaj  

Histology Atlas and Systematic Approach to Postmortem Examination of the Queen Conch Lobatus gigas

open access: yesJournal of Shellfish Research, 2019
The queen conch Lobatus gigas is the second largest commercial fishery in the Caribbean, and overharvesting has resulted in significant population declines.
Katie Tiley   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Density and reproduction of the Queen Conch Eustrombus gigas (Mesogastropoda: Strombidae) at Cabo Cruz, Desembarco del Granma National Park, Cuba Densidad y reproducción de la concha reina Eustrombus gigas (Mesogastropoda: Strombidae) en Cabo Cruz, Parque Nacional Desembarco del Granma, Cuba

open access: yesRevista de Biología Tropical, 2013
The queen conch Eustrombus gigas is an important fisheries resource in the Caribbean region. In Cuba Island the studies about this resource are very scarce and particularly in the Southeastern regions of the country. With the aim to get important fishery
Yuself R. Cala   +3 more
doaj  

Summary of Coral Cay Conservation's habitat mapping data from Utila, Honduras [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
IIThe coral reefs of Honduras are of vital national and international importance,both ecologically and economically, but are threatened because of rapid economicand population growth.?
Afzal, D   +4 more
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Shell strength of queen conch, Strombus gigas L.: aquaculture implications

open access: yesAquaculture Research, 1988
. Forces required to crack shells of a wild population of queen conchs, Strombus gigas L., from the Berry Islands. Bahamas and from three hatchery populations in Venezuela, the United States and Mexico were measured. Above about 55-mm shell length, shell strength of wild conchs increased rapidly for small length increases.
D. E. JORY, E. S. IVERSEN
openaire   +1 more source

Spartan Daily, May 24, 1946 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1946
Volume 34, Issue 114https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/3770/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Is the Queen conch Strombus gigas (Mesogastropoda: Strombidae) a species with Allee effect?

open access: yesRevista de Biología Tropical, 2014
The marine park of Xel-Há has a population of Strombus gigas which breeds in the area. We determined the relationship between reproductive activity, conch density and environmental parameters.
Dalila Aldana Aranda   +2 more
doaj  

Census of Active Commercial Fishermen in Puerto Rico: 2008 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The implementation of Puerto Rican Regulation No. 6768, which overhauled the existing fishery management framework, generated considerable hostility towards local managers.
Agar, Juan J., Matos-Caraballo, Daniel
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