This report details the discussion topics and research recommendations of a 1985 conference which addressed non-maritime ports (those not primarily engaged in international trade) and non-maritime activities (commercial fishing, marine recreation, offshore oil and gas exploration and production) in maritime ports and harbors. The increasing use of modern container vessels and other technological advances have brought changes in the nature and extent of port facilities; the problems of port management and planning are discussed.
Galveston Bay, Texas is a heavily industrialized, urban estuary with a long history of pollution. It is subjected to intense port and shipping activit...
Sea scallops are Virginia's most valuable landed seafood. The mid-Atlantic region has become an important sea scallop resource area, contributing more...
Incidental harvesting or by-catch of fish and shellfish has become an issue of increasing concern to fishery administrators, managers, research scient...
The most important factor influencing shoreline behavior in the Great Lakes is fluctuation in lake-level. Previous studies in the Lake Michigan basin ...
Two species of arkshell or "blood" clams, "Noetia ponderosa" (ponderous ark) and "Anadara ovalis" (blood ark), have been harvested by watermen on the ...
This report on the results of a national survey, conducted in 1984, primarily presents a broad statistical overview of fishery education programs in t...
This paper may be considered step one in a sequence dedicated to solving the submersible identification problem. An efficient numerical scheme is cons...
This handbook is designed to help reporters and others quickly slice through the complexities of risk assessment, toxicology, epidemiology, and risk c...
A survey of 253 visitors to an urban museum was undertaken to explore attitudes toward marine wildlife and how such attitudes varied with cultural bac...
Culturally based attitudes and practices toward animals, specifically marine wildlife, can cause environmental problems and cross-cultural misundersta...
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