During the winter and spring of 1990, Washington Sea Grant conducted a mail survey of all known marinas in Washington State. Included were questions about market conditions facing the marina operator: moorage lease rates in summer and winter, seasonal occupancy rates, and numbers of boaters on waiting lists. This report presents the results including, in addition to market information, a summary of each region's stock of moorage, a list of the facilities that provide it, and the quantity and kind of moorage slips they lease or rent.
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...
The incidental mortality of seabirds in longline fisheries is an international marine conservation problem. Although estimates of worldwide totals are...
This glossary targets the commercial fishing industry and reflects the current terminology used. However, because the industry is constantly evolving ...
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