Blue crab mortalities associated with pesticides, herbicides, temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen

Authors

Willard A. Van Engel, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Files

Document Type

Book Chapter

Department/Program

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Editors

Harriet M. Perry and W. A. Van Engel

Publication Date

1982

Book Title

Proceedings of the Blue Crab Colloquium

Publisher

Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission

City

Biloxi, Mississippi

Abstract

Commercial fisheries landings of the blue crab in the Chesapeake Bay have fluctuated widely since the late 1920s (Figure I). Records of annual landings prior to 1929 are sparse and permit little more than a guess of trends, although a discontinuous series of catch records from 1907 to 1926 from individual watermen, on file at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), may provide sufficient baseline data for interpretations or estimates of trends in the early period.

Keywords

Estuarine ecology, water pollution, environmental policy, blue crab populations

Publication Statement

Contribution (Virginia Institute of Marine Science) no. 1016.

Recommended Citation

Van Engel, Willard A., "Blue crab mortalities associated with pesticides, herbicides, temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen" (1982). VIMS Books and Book Chapters. 95.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/vimsbooks/95