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Winter mortalities of oysters on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 1959-1961

Hoese, H. Dickson
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During the winter of 1960-61 exceptional mortalities occurred among certain oysters on the Virginia Seaside. These mortalities were greatest among James River oysters held intertidally and South Carolina imports placed below low tide level. Intertidal native oysters suffered small mortalities but among subtidal native or James River oysters only the very oldest, with extensive disease histories, showed any winter mortality. (...)
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1962
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Eastern Shore Laboratory (ESL)
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https://scholarworks.wm.edu/handle/internal/15684
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