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Ask the Lobster Doc
Crusher, seizer lobster claws (11/2001) Part 2: Fisheries data collection (5/2001) Part 1: The Scientific Method (4/2001) Runoff threatens nursery areas (3/2001) Juvenile lobster abundance (2/2001) Molting and egg production (1/2001) Canada lobsters take a beating (12/2000) Male/female lobsters odd, rare (11/2000) Lobster claw abnormalities (10/ ...
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Lobster Conservancy given grant for planning
The conservancy was started by Diane Cowan as an all-volunteer outfit to monitor juvenile lobster abundance in the intertidal zone in the Gulf of Maine. Cowan began studying one site in ... , aimed at increasing knowledge about the lobster biomass with an eye toward preserving the resource and the fishery. More than 60 volunteers monitor the abundance and distribution of juveniles monthly at 25 ...
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Biodiversity Conservation in Britain: Science Replacing Tradition
In marine ecosystems, amongst the most neglected in wildlife conservation, traditional hunting such as lobster potting is much less damaging than more modern and high-tech scallop dredging or ... long development times and poor dispersal ('K-selected' organisms). Others are specialised to exploit the abundance of life around them. The obvious vulnerability of late-successional species, as compared to ...
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The Northern Right Whale
Fishing gear that entrap and entangle whales include deep sea lobster lines, ropes, seine nets, fish weirs, and gillnets. Six percent of known right whale deaths ... phosphorus mining (in the southeastern United States) remains a substantial concern. Pollutants may reduce the abundance of prey and may have toxic effects on the whales themselves. Another impediment to the ...
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Environmental Effects of Drilling Waste Discharges
Sensitive species included reef corals, lobster larvae and scallop embryos and larvae. Recruitment of planktonic larvae to sandy sediments ... low energy and depositional environments, more material accumulates and there may be reduction in abundance of some benthic species. Other authors take a less sanguine view. The Russian ...
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ITEC Conservation Programs
The long term goals of the turtle program are to: Determine the relative nesting population abundance for the four species of marine turtles in the Bocas del Toro region through the ... logging of trees for lumber, pasture or crop conversion, or in the taking of fish, lobster, crab or sea turtles. Although marine turtles, their eggs and products (oils, tortoiseshell jewelry) are ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Search
Since the mid 1990’s no reports of ... Baino, R., Serena, F., Ragonese, S., Rey, J. and Rinelli, P. 2001. Catch composition and abundance of Elasmobranchs based on the MEDITS program. Rapports de la Commission Internationale pour L' ...
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Hawai'i Coral Reef Network -- References
Jury, S. H., W. H. Howell and W. H. Watson III. 1995. Lobster movements in response to a hurricane. Marine Ecology Progress Series 119: 305-310. Karlson, R ... infection and coral bleaching." Nature 380: 396. Kuta, K.G. and L.L. Richardson (1996). "Abundance and distribution of black band disease of corals in the northern Florida Keys." Coral Reefs ...
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The American Lobster
Barshaw, 1998). The US Federal Government has labeled the American lobster population as "overfished," but the general increase in abundance, coupled with the increase in catches over the past twenty ... http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/LILobsters/Research-Calcinosis1202.pdf (3 April 2003). The Lobster Conservancy. 2003. The Lobster Conservancy. http://www.lobsters.org/. (6 March 2003). New York Sea ...
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The Starving Ocean
Sign Guestbook View Guestbook Evidence: a Transformed Ecosystem As the size and abundance of commercially targeted fish species has plunged in recent decades, populations of smaller, unexploited ... in the seaweed diagnosis result from 'pseudo-eutrophication?' Recent Additions (Aside: a note to lobster fishermen - March 12/08) Nova Scotia seal hunt at Hay Island - a new low ...
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