Enhancing the potential for population recovery: Restoration options for bay scallop populations, argopecten irradians concentricus, in North Carolina

Journal of Shellfish Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 477-489

  Fegley, Stephen R ^a   Peterson, Charles H ^a   Geraldi, Nathan R ^a   Gaskill, David W ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Argopecten irradians; bay scallop; recruitment; restoration; scallop spat collector

Indexed keywords

ARGOPECTEN IRRADIANS; ARGOPECTEN IRRADIANS CONCENTRICUS; PECTINIDAE; RHINOPTERINAE;

EID: 77958548082     PISSN: 07308000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2983/035.028.0309     Document Type: Article

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