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Author Sea Grant Symposium on Fish Habitat: "Essential Fish Habitat" and Rehabilitation (1998 : Hartford, Conn.)

Title Fish habitat : essential fish habitat and rehabilitation / Lee R. Benaka, editor
Published Bethesda, Md. : American Fisheries Society, 1999

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 W'BOOL  597.0973 Sea/Fhe  AVAILABLE
Description xviii, 459 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Series American Fisheries Society symposium, 0892-2284 ; 22
American Fisheries Society symposium ; 22
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.
Fish habitat improvement -- Congresses.
Fishes -- Habitat -- United States -- Congresses.
Fish habitat improvement -- United States -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Benaka, Lee R.
American Fisheries Society.
LC no. 98088572
ISBN 1888569123