Fish Habitat: Essential Fish Habitat and RehabilitationContains papers from an August 1998 symposium, highlighting aspects of the essential fish habitat (EFH) provisions of the Sustainable Fisheries Act. Offers perspectives on EFH policy from federal, environmental, fishing industry, and fishery management council perspectives, then deals with EFH identification, fishing and nonfishing impacts, and Great Lakes fish habitat rehabilitation, and reports on recent research in marine fish habitat. Specific topics include habitat-based assessment of lobster abundance, and the role of oyster reefs. Lacks a subject index. |
Contents
An Environmentalists Perspective on Essential Fish Habitat | 7 |
The Biodiversity Perspective | 31 |
Life History Habitat Parameters and Essential Habitat of MidAtlantic | 76 |
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abundance American Fisheries Society aquatic areas artificial reef assessment Atlantic basin benthic biological bottom changes Charlotte Harbor coastal coho coho salmon Conservation CPUE crab creeks density distribution disturbance dredging Ecology Progress Series ecosystem editors effects environmental Erie essential fish habitat estimates estuaries Figure fishermen fishery management fishing gear freshwater Gulf of Maine habi habitat types Herrnkind identified impacts increase intertidal juvenile Lakes lobsters Lorain Lorain County Louisiana Magnuson-Stevens Act Marine Fisheries Service mean ment Minello National Marine Fisheries National Oceanic nekton NMFS North offshore Oregon oyster reefs Pacific salmon populations predation production Program projects reference marshes region restoration result River salinity salt marshes sampling sand scallop Science Sea Grant seabed seatrout sediment shallow shrimp smallmouth bass spatial spawning species sponges spotted seatrout streams structure substrate summer flounder Table temperature tidal tion trawl variable vegetation wetlands Wildlife