Final report for the project entitled : Virginia reef restoration in 1998, Great Wicomico River

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• Personal Author:
  Wesson, James A.
• Corporate Authors:
  Virginia. Marine Resources Commission
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service)
• Description:
  In this project, Virginia continued the reefrestoration efforts by constructing a second oyster reef in the Great Wicomico River near Cranes Creek (Figure 1 ). Since 1993, fifteen construction projects have been completed throughout Virginia's portion of the Chesapeake Bay (Figure 2). The reef restoration effort began with the hypothesis that three-dimensional reefs would be "better" habitat for oysters and other associated species. Since oysters evolved in these structures, it was surmised that the structure itself was important.
• Keywords:
  Estuaries Federal Government Fish Habitat Improvement Marine Resources Conservation Oysters Recolonization Rivers State Governments Federal Government Fish Habitat Improvement Marine Resources Conservation State Governments

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• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Non-series Report
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA86FU0257
• Place as Subject:
  Virginia ; Great Wicomico River (Va.) ; Chesapeake Bay Watershed
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e2d7c18c2afa5f15457e0578b86bc1515a463e3a072384ae4d5e57ccd0c5b9eb7511cf2feebfedeb049bde6ce386a58857edaaf5da58c834f6d044643d3a6f86
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/73820/noaa_73820_DS1.pdf
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