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and restoration. This executive summary describes these products and provides
an overall assessment of our understanding regarding restoration, enhancement,
and creation of salt marsh habitats. In particular, we have stressed Spartina
alterniflora marshes and habitat functions related to the support of fishes,
crustaceans, and other aquatic life.
Matthews, Geoffrey A. and Thomas J. Minello (1994). Technology and Success
in Restoration, Creation, and Enhancement of Spartina Alterniflora
Marshes in the United States. Volume 2 -- Inventory and Human
Resources Directory, Decision Analysis Series No. 2, NOAA Coastal Ocean
Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Coastal Ocean
Office, 1315 East West Highway, Sta. 15140, Silver Spring, MD, August.
Our objectives in developing this database of created Spartina
alterniflora marshes were: 1) to form a register of the marshes and estimate
the number and location of these marshes, 2) to determine how many of these
marshes have been monitored for functional success and animal utilization, 3)
to develop an inexpensive and easy to use data base and entry system to track
future restoration/creation activities, 4) to promote via this database a
greater awareness of the impacts of altering coastal wetlands and the need for
full ecologically functional replacement.
Matthews, Kathleen R. and Laura J. Richards (1991). Rockfish (Scorpaenidae)
Assemblages of Trawlable and Untrawlable Habitats off Vancouver Island,
British Columbia. North American Journal of Fisheries Management,
11:312-318.
We compare assemblages of demersal rockfishes (Scorpaenidae) associated
with two areas of the continental slope off northern Vancouver Island, British
Columbia, Canada. Twenty and 21 sets of sunken gill nets were completed on
trawlable and untrawlable areas, respectively. The species assemblages on the
two areas were markedly different, as demonstrated by their diversity,
evenness, and percent similarity and by cluster analysis. On the trawlable
area, the catch was numerically dominated by Pacific ocean perch, Sebastes
alutus, (37.6%), splitnose rockfish, S. diploproa (23.5%), greenstriped
rockfish, S. elongatus, (12.7%), and bocaccio, S. Paucispinis, (7.3%). This
contrasted with the untrawlable area, where the catch was numerically
dominated by sharpchin rockfish, S. zacentrus, (70.8%), and redbanded
rockfish, S. Babcocki, made up half (14.5%) the remaining catch. We found no
evidence to support the claim by some fishermen that exploited rockfishes on
trawlable areas, especially Pacific ocean perch, are maintained and
replenished by immigration from hard bottom areas, However, rockfish stocks on
hard bottom areas may be subject to increased exploitation as fishing
techniques improve.
Matlock, Gary C. (1992). "A Model for Forecasting Brown Shrimp Landings
in Texas." Draft report, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department,
4200 Smith School Road, Austin, Texas 78744.
The brown shrimp harvest from the Gulf of Mexico off Texas is predicted
annually by the National Marine Fisheries Service using a forecasting model
that relates juvenile shrimp abundance in the Galveston Bay system during each
spring (April-June) to the subsequent annual (July-June) offshore harvest.
Predictions since 1981 when a closure of the Exclusive Economic Zone off Texas
(Texas Closure) was implemented to compliment the closure of the Texas
territorial Sea during June through mid-July have underestimated the actual
reported landings. A revised model that incorporates the effect of the Texas
Closure on yield should improve the reliability and precision of forecasted
yields. The relationship between yield and juvenile shrimp abundance changed
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