Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus) Use of the Ship/Trinity/Tiger Shoal Complex as a Nationally Important Spawning/Hatching/Foraging Ground: Discovery, Ev

by U.S. Department of the Interior

The Minerals Management Service (MMS) is addressing the recent demand for long-term use of U.S. continental shelf sand resources for coastal erosion management, a critical challenge to Louisiana's ecosystems and economies (e.g., USDOI, MMS 2008). Louisiana considers barrier island restoration as a promising way to combat wetland loss with sand mined from Ship Shoal, located off the central Louisiana coast, as the most feasible sediment source. Additional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1505484308
• ISBN13: 9781505484304
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"