Information about Estuaries and Near Coastal Watersaugust 2000-Issue 10. 4

By Environmental Protection Agency

Book Id: WPLBN0000136606
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 0.5 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Information about Estuaries and Near Coastal Watersaugust 2000-Issue 10. 4
Author:	Environmental Protection Agency
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Ecology, Natural resource issues, Environemtal protection
Collections:	Environmental Awareness Library Collection
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Publisher:	United States Environmental Protection Agency


Citation APA MLA Chicago Protection Agency, B. E. (n.d.). Information about Estuaries and Near Coastal Watersaugust 2000-Issue 10. 4. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
Excerpt: Lobster fishermen and dealers began reporting significant numbers of dead and dying lobsters in their lobster pot gear in the western half of Long Island Sound in mid-September of 1999. Affected lobsters appeared normal, but were limp or dead. The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (CTDEP) Long Island Sound trawl survey recorded a drop off of lobster catch in September and a more noticeable decline in abundance and an increase in sick lobsters in October. While autumn die-offs have occurred in other years since the late 1980s, the event in 1999 was more severe and occurred over a much larger area of the Sound (more than half of the Sound) than in previous years. By November it was clear that the die-off was unprecedented in scope and catastrophic to the lobster fishery. To make matters worse, the incidence of shell disease, in which bacteria (Bacteria is plural, bacterium singular, so bacteria form would be correct) forms a black mass that rots through the carapace (shell), has increased in lobsters from eastern Long Island Sound over the past few years.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents Lobster Mortalities Lead to Fisheries Disaster in Long Island Sound Preview of a New Air Deposition Resource for Coastal Managers New Pfiesteria Species Among Findings Presented at Tasmania Conference Ethical Angler Aims to Hook Fishers on Conservation Burnett County Shoreline Incentive Program Linking Science and Policy: The Relationship of Stream Channel Size to Nitrogen Inputs to the Gulf of Mexico NOAA Coastal Programs Analyzed