Abundance of adult horseshoe crabs (Limulus polylphemus) in Delaware Bay estimated from a bay-wide mark-recapture study

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 456-464

  Smith, David R ^a   Millard, Michael J ^b   Eyler, Sheila ^c  

^a LEETOWN SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Northeast Fishery Center   (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ADULT; CRAB; FECUNDITY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; SPAWNING;

DELAWARE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 33745439901     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Bacheler, N. M., R. A. Wong, and J. A. Buckel. 2005. Movements and mortality rates of striped mullet in North Carolina. N. Am. J. Fish. Manag. 25:361-373.
2. Baker, A. J., P. M. González, T. Piersma, L. J. Niles, I. de Lima Serrano do Nascimento, P. W. Atlkinson, N. A. Clark, C. D. T. Minton, M. K. Peck, and G. Aarts. 2004. Rapid population decline in red knots: fitness consequences of decreased refueling rates and late arrival in Delaware Bay. Proc. Royal Soc. B, 271:875-882.
3. Borchers, D. L., S. T. Buckland, and W. Zucchini. 2002. Estimating animal abundance: closed populations, 314 p. Springer, London.
4. Botton, M. L., and B. A. Harrington. 2003. Synchronies in migration: shorebirds, horseshoe crabs, and Delaware Bay. In The American horseshoe crab (C. N. Shuster Jr., R. B. Barlow, and H. J. Brockmann, eds.), p. 5-32. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.
5. Botton, M. L., and H. H. Haskin. 1984. Distribution and feeding of the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, on the continental shelf off New Jersey. Fish. Bull. 82:383-389.
6. Botton, M. L., and J. W. Ropes. 1987. Populations of horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus, on the northwestern Atlantic continental shelf. Fish. Bull. 85:805-812.
7. Brousseau, L. J., M. Sclafani, D. R. Smith, and D. B. Carter. 2004. Acoustic and radio tracking horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) to assess spawning behavior and subtidal habitat use in Delaware Bay. N. Am. J. Fish. Manag. 24:1376-1384.
8. Burnham, K. P., and D. R. Anderson. 1998. Model selection and inference: a practical information-theoretic approach, 353 p. Springer, New York, NY.
9. Carmichael, R. H., D. Rutecki, and I. Valiela. 2003. Abundance and population structure of the Atlantic horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, in Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 246:225-239.
10. Hata, D., and J. Berkson. 2003. Abundance of horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) in the Delaware Bay area. Fish. Bull. 101:933-938.
11. Hoenig, J. M., N. J. Barrowman, W. S. Hearn, and K. H. Pollock. 1998. Multiyear tagging studies incorporating fishing effort data. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 55:1466-1476.
12. Jackson, N. L., K. F. Nordstrom, and D. R. Smith. 2002. Geomorphic-biotic interactions on beach foreshores in estuaries. Proceedings of the International Coastal Symposium (ICS 2002). J. Coastal Res. Spec. Issue 36:414-424.
13. 2005. Influence of waves and horseshoe crab spawning on beach morphology and sediment characteristics on a sandy estuarine beach, Delaware Bay, New Jersey, USA. Sedimentology 52:1097-1108.
14. Odell, J., M. E. Mather, and R. M. Muth. 2005. A biosocial approach for analyzing environmental conflicts: a case study of horseshoe crab allocation. Bioscience 55:735-748.
15. Schwarz, C. J., and C. G. Taylor. 1998. Use of the stratified-Petersen estimator in fisheries management: estimating the number of pink salmon (Oncorhyncus gorbuscha) spawners in the Fraser River. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 55:281-296.
16. Shuster, C. N., Jr., and M. L. Botton. 1985. A contribution to the population biology of horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus, in Delaware Bay. Estuaries 8:363-372.
17. Shuster, C. N., Jr., and K. Sekiguchi. 2003. Growing up takes about ten years and eighteen stages. In The American horseshoe crab (C. N. Shuster Jr., R. B. Barlow, and H. J. Brockmann, eds.), p. 103-132. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.
18. Skalski, J. R., and D. S. Robson. 1992. Techniques for wildlife investigations: design and analysis of capture data. Academic Press, Inc., New York, NY.
19. Smith, D. R., P. S. Pooler, B. L. Swan, S. Michels, W. R. Hall, P. Himchak, and M. Millard. 2002. Spatial and temporal distribution of horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) spawning in Delaware Bay: implications for monitoring. Estuaries 25(1):115-125.