TABLES 



Number Pa g e 



1 Mean annual wave power for selected delta systems 16 



2 Economic value of principal shellfish, fish, 



and furbearer resources in the MDPR, 1976 31 



3 Commodities shipped on waterways, 1976 (1000 tons) 33 



4 Example habitat input-output table from the technical report 36 



5 Area of the habitats for the total MDPR 37 



6 Driving energy flows of sugarcane and salt marsh ecosystems 40 



7 Monthly tide levels along the central Louisiana coast 



for 1958-59 77 



8 Summary resource use and waste production coefficients 



for the MDPR urban- industrial habitat 88 



9 Habitat areas in hydrologic unit I, Mississippi Sound 92 



10 Habitat areas in hydrologic unit II, Pontchartrain 96 



11 Habitat areas in hydrologic unit III, Mississippi 



River Delta 105 



12 Habitat areas in hydrologic unit IV, Barataria 108 



13 Land and water areas in the total Barataria drainage 



basin in 1975 109 



14 Trophic state classification of Barataria basin, Louisiana 113 



15 Wetland loss in Barataria basin 115 



16 Relationship of wetland loss in the Barataria basin 



and human activities as estimated by canal density 116 



17 Summary of inventory results of wetland loss for 



the Barataria basin H' 



18 Aquatic productivity and mean annual chlorophyll in 

 Barataria basin from freshwater bayous to offshore 



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