| Description |
xii, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Series |
American Fisheries Society symposium, 0892-2284 ; 50 |
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American Fisheries Society symposium ; 50
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Nursery Areas as Essential Shark Habitats: A Theoretical Perspective 3 -- Michael R. Heithaus -- Part 1: Waters of the U.S. Atlantic Coast -- Shark Nursery Areas in the Coastal Waters of Massachusetts 17 -- Gregory B. Skomal -- Sandbar Shark Nurseries in New Jersey and New York: Evidence of -- Northern Pupping Grounds along the United States East Coast 35 -- Rebeka R. Merson and Harold L. Pratt, Jr -- Distribution, Localized Abundance, Movements, and Migrations of -- Juvenile Sandbar Sharks Tagged in Delaware Bay 45 -- Camilla T McCandless, Harold L. Pratt, Jr., Nancy E. Kohler, -- Rebeka R. Merson, and Conrad W. Recksiek -- Spatial Delineation of Summer Nursery Areas for Juvenile Sandbar -- Sharks in C hesapeake B ay, Virginia 63 -- R. Dean Grubbs and John A. Musick -- Long-Term Movements, Migration, and Temporal Delineation of a -- Summer Nursery for Juvenile Sandbar Sharks in the Chesapeake -- B ay R egion 87 -- R. Dean Grubbs, John A. Musick, Christina L. Conrath, and -- Jason G. Romine -- Survey of the Shark Fauna in Two South Carolina Estuaries and the -- Im pact of Salinity Structure 109 -- Daniel C. Abel, Robert F Young, Jason A. Garwood, -- Mario J. Travaline, and Bree K. Yednock -- Habitat Utilization, Relative Abundance, and Seasonality of Sharks -- in the Estuarine and Nearshore Waters of South Carolina 1 25 -- Glenn F Ulrich, Christian M. Jones, William B. Driggers, III, -- J. Marcus Drymon, Douglas Oakley, and Catherine Riley -- Shark Nursery Grounds in Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research -- Reserve, Georgia 14 1 -- Christopher W. D. Gurshin -- Organochlorine Contaminants in Juvenile Sandbar and Blacktip -- Sharks from Major Nursery Areas on the East Coast of the United -- States 153 -- James Gelsleichter, Nancy J. Szabo, and John J. Morris -- Preliminary Assessment of a Nearshore Nursery Ground for the -- Scalloped Hammerhead off the Atlantic Coast of Florida 165 -- Douglas H. Adams and Richard Paperno -- Early Life History of the Spinner Shark in a Florida Nursery 175 -- Craig W. Aubrey and Franklin F Snelson, Jr -- Part 2: Gulf of Mexico -- Species-Specific Distribution and Habitat Characteristics of Shark -- Nurseries in Gulf of Mexico Waters off Peninsular Florida and Texas 193 -- Robert E. Hueter and John P Tyminski -- The Nurse Shark, Mating and Nursery Habitat in the Dry Tortugas, -- Florida 225 -- Harold L. Pratt, Jr and Jeffrey C. Carrier -- Notes on the Occurrence and Distribution of Elasmobranchs in the -- Ten Thousand Islands Estuary, Florida 237 -- Pascale A. Steiner Marcel Michel, and Patrick M. O'Donnell -- Effects of Tidal Current on the Movement Patterns of Juvenile Bull -- Sharks and Blacktip Sharks 251 -- Pascale A. Steiner and Marcel Michel -- Exiting Terra Ceia Bay: An Examination of Cues Stimulating -- Migration from a Summer Nursery Area 265 -- Michelle R. Heupel -- Modeling the Role of Sharks in the Trophic Dynamics of -- A palachicola Bay, Florida 281 -- John K. Carlson -- Identification and Characterization of Shark Nursery Grounds along -- the M ississippi and Alabama Gulf Coasts 301 -- Glenn R. Parsons and Eric R. Hoffmayer -- Shark Nursery Areas of Central Louisiana's Nearshore Coastal Waters 317 -- Julie A. Neer Jason K. Blackburn, and Bruce A. Thompson -- Delineation of Bull Shark Nursery Areas in the Inland and Coastal -- W aters of Louisiana 331 -- Jason K. Blackburn, Julie A. Neer and Bruce A. Thompson -- The Use of Laguna Yalahau, Quintana Roo, Mexico as a Primary -- N ursery for the Blacktip Shark 345 -- Robert E. Hueter, J. Leonardo Castillo-Giniz, -- J. Fernando Mdrquez-Farias, and John P Tyminski -- Species Specific Shark Nursery Habitat Summary Tables 365 |
| Notes |
"Proceedings of the symposium, Shark essential fish habitat: towards ecosystem management, held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 19 August 2002." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Fish populations -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- Congresses.
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Fish populations -- Mexico, Gulf of -- Congresses.
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Sharks -- Habitat -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- Congresses.
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Sharks -- Habitat -- Mexico, Gulf of -- Congresses.
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Sharks -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- Congresses.
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Sharks -- Mexico, Gulf of -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Kohler, Nancy E.
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McCandless, Camilla T.
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Pratt, Harold L.
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| LC no. |
2007923971 |
| ISBN |
1888569816 |
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9781888569810 (paperback) |
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