Reports

Electrical Fishing for Razor Clams

Marine Scotland Science Report 03/11 A REPORT ON ELECTRICAL FISHING FOR RAZOR CLAMS (ENSIS SP.) AND ITS LIKELY EFFECTS ON THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT Mike Breen, Trevor Howell and Phil Copland February 2011

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Sources to Seafood – Mercury Pollution in the Marine Environment

In 2010, the Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program at Dartmouth College brought together a group of 50 scientists and policy stakeholders to form C-MERC, the Coastal and Marine Mercury Ecosystem Research Collaborative. The goal was to review current knowledge—and knowledge gaps—relating to a global environmental health problem, mercury contamination of the world’s marine fish. C-MERC […]

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Fishing Community Vulnerability Profile: Rockland, Maine

Teresa Johnson Anna Henry Cameron Thompson Commercial fishing is an important economic and cultural element of Maine’s coastal communities. Maine fishing communities are suffering from loss of access to fisheries and infrastructure, regulatory impacts and changing resource abundance. Although fisheries managers are required to assess impacts of fisheries regulations on fishing communities, this has proven […]

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Fishing Community Vulnerability Profile: Port Clyde, Maine

Teresa Johnson Anna Henry Cameron Thompson Commercial fishing is an important economic and cultural element of Maine’s coastal communities. Maine fishing communities are suffering from loss of access to fisheries and infrastructure, regulatory impacts and changing resource abundance. Although fisheries managers are required to assess impacts of fisheries regulations on fishing communities, this has proven […]

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Fishing Community Vulnerability Profile: Lubec, Maine

Teresa R. Johnson Anna Henry Cameron Thompson Commercial fishing is an important economic and cultural element of Maine’s coastal communities. Maine fishing communities are suffering from loss of access to fisheries and infrastructure, regulatory impacts and changing resource abundance. Although fisheries managers are required to assess impacts of fisheries regulations on fishing communities, this has […]

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Restoration by Seeding in Zostera marina

Progress report George W. Kidder, Mount Desert Biological Laboratory Paul Bushmann, Anne Arundel Community College, Maryland Jane Disney, Mount Desert Biological Laboratory Restoration of eelgrass beds in Frenchman Bay by transplanting vegetative shoots has proven successful, and gives rise to beds that propagate by seeding. We explored the use of deliberate seeding to enhance recolonization, […]

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Green Crab Management: Reduction of an Invasive Population – 2013 Green Crab Summit

Proceedings of Coastal Zone 07 Portland, Oregon July 22 to 26, 2007 Catherine E. de Rivera, Portland State University, Environmental Sciences & Resources Edwin D. Grosholz, University of California, Davis, Environmental Sciences & Policy Gregory M. Ruiz, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) Amy A. Larson, University of California ESP, Davis, SERC Rebecca L. Kordas, University […]

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