scientific management to produce maximum sustainable yields. Solution 

 of these problems will require improved public understanding, increased 

 support, coordination of research and management programs, and greater 

 opportunity for calm discussion and compromise. (A. A.) 



Keywords: commercial fishes, estuarine management, fisheries, 

 Chesapeake Bay, U.S. Gulf coast 



IV-A-8 



Douglas, P. A., and R.H. Stroud, eds. 1971. A symposium on the biological 



significance of estuaries. Sport Fishing Institute, Washington, D.C. 



Ill pp. 



This publication is a product of a one-day scientific Symposium on the 

 Biological Significance of Estuaries, which was held in 1970 and co- 

 sponsored by the Sport Fishing Institute and the National Wildlife Federation. 

 The symposium was designed to inform laymen, in terms they could under- 

 stand, in what ways the estuaries of the United States are important 

 and how they can be maintained for many uses. 



More than half of the marine fisheries resources of the Continental 

 Shelf adjacent to the U.S. land mass is fully dependent upon estuaries 

 as spawning and/or nursery areas. Estuaries are also critical links 

 in upstream and downstream migration routes of fishes. This symposium 

 was held in an attempt to improve the public comprehension needed to 

 create an improved climate for solving the problems of maintaining the 

 estuarine environment in a productive condition. 



Chapters are included on the biology of the estuary, the Texas water 

 plan and its effect on estuaries, the effect of water development on 

 striped bass in the Sacramento-San Joaquin estuary, the biological effects 

 of estuaries on shellfish of the Middle Atlantic, the effects of pollution 

 on estuaries of the Northwest Pacific coast, and the significance of an 

 estuary on the biology of aquatic organisms. Some of these chapters 

 are reviewed elsewhere in this publication. (See IV-B-8, IV-C-8, and 

 IV-E-30.) (B.W.) 



Keywords: estuaries, fisheries resources, productivity, U.S. coastal 

 regions 



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