Monitoring Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Oysters: A Comprehensive Characterization of Modified Fall Survey Results, 1990-1991Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Chesapeake Bay Research and Monitoring Division, Habitat Impacts Program, Cooperative Oxford Laboratory, 1992 - Oyster culture - 93 pages "The design of the modified survey is intended to provide annual estimates of Baywide and regional oyster spatfall intensity, mortality, disease, and population size structure ... The survey samples 64 "key", or regionally representative, oyster bars each year."--Page iii. |
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162 SIZE CLASS age class analysis areas averaged bar population structure Chester River Choptank River CLASS Figure confidence limits CRTW Eastern Bay estimates fishery Fishing Bay geographic regions harvested bars harvested oyster bars high mortality historical HOHO Honga River increased infection Krantz Manokin River marinus and H marinus disease marinus intensity index market oysters Maryland Bay Maryland Chesapeake Bay Maryland's Oysters MFS bars Mid Eastern Shore Mid-Eastern Modified Fall Survey Nanticoke River Northern Bay number of live number of oysters NUMBER OF REGIONS number of survey oyster bar population oyster mortality oyster populations oysters by component Patent tongs Patuxent River peak Perkinsus marinus intensity Potomac River River harvest region River Region salinity sampling sites seed and shell spat counts spat density spat per bushel spatfall structure by component subsamples substrate survey oyster bars Survey sampling Tangier Sound tion Total number TSBC Upper Bay variables Western Shore Wicomico River WSBU WSHP