CHAPTER III. SEDIMENT DYNAMICS 



Session Summary: Gulf of Maine Sediment Dynamics. 



Daniel F. Belknap 141 



Sediment dynamics of the nearshore Gulf of Maine: 

 submersible experimentation and remote sensing. 

 Daniel F. Belknap, Joseph T. Kelley, & Donald H. W. 

 Robbins 143 



CHAPTER IV. BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING 



Session Summary: Benthic-Pelagic Coupling. 



Marsh Youngbluth 179 



The role of nepheloid layers in benthic-pelagic 



coupling. Quay Dortch, David W. Townsend, 



Richard W. Spinrad, & Lawrence M. Mayer 181 



Epibenthic krill impact particle & food webs: 



detection by submersible. Marsh J. Youngbluth, 



Thomas G. Bailey, Peter J. Davoll, Charles A. 



Jacoby, Pamela I. Blades-Eckelbarger, 



Carolyn A. Griswold 205 



Design & fabrication of a fluff layer sampler. 



Lawrence Mayer, Giselher Gust, John Riley, 



& Daniel Schick 215 



CHAPTER V. FISHERIES 



Session Summary: Fisheries. Richard W. Langton 227 



Sea scallop tagging experiments using manned- 



submersibles . Paul Arthur Berkman 231 



Ecology of the sea scallop Placopecten 



Magellanicus (Gmelin, 1791) in the Gulf of Maine, 



U.S.A. - a preliminary report. Richard W. 



Langton, William E. Robinson 243 



Physical characteristics of herring egg beds on 



the eastern Maine coast. David K. Stevenson, 



Robert L . Knowles 257 



IV 



