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Essential fish habitat source document. Sea scallop, Placopecten magellanicus, life history and habitat characteristics
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2004
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Alternative Title:Sea scallop, Placopecten magellanicus, life history and habitat characteristics
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Description:"The Atlantic sea scallop, Placopecten magellanicus (Gmelin), is a bivalve mollusk of the family Pectinidae and order Ostreoida (Figure 1). It occurs on the continental shelf of the northwest Atlantic from the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence south to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The Atlantic sea scallop is one of the most economically important species in the northeast United States, and supports the most valuable wild scallop fishery in the world. The 2003 U.S. landings of 25,476 MT (meats) had an ex-vessel value of about
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Content Notes:Deborah R. Hart and Antonie S. Chute.
"September 2004."
"Web version posted March 23, 2005"--Document's home page http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/publications/tm/tm189/
First edition distributed to depository libraries under Supt. of Docs. classification no.: C 55.13/2:NMFS-NE-134.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 6-11).
Hart DR, Chute AS. 2004. Essential fish habitat source document: Sea scallop, Placopecten magellanicus, life history and habitat characteristics, 2nd edition. NOAA Tech Memo NMFS NE 189; 21 p.
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