Assessment of out-of-kind mitigation success of an artificial reef deployed in Delaware Bay, USA

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 59, Issue SUPPL., 2002, Pages

  Burton, W H ^a   Farrar, J S ^a   Steimle, F ^b   Conlin, B ^c  

^a VERSAR INC   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^c US Department of the Army   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic secondary production epifauna; Estuarine artificial reef; Mitigation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL REEF; EPIFAUNA; MITIGATION; SECONDARY PRODUCTION;

DELAWARE; DELAWARE BAY; NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036804558     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmsc.2002.1269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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