PREFACE 



The impetus for this bibliography came from the need to provide Northeast 

 Fisheries Center scientists with a compilation of the literature on the bay 

 scallop, Argopecten irradians . As research on the bibliography progressed 

 however, the original impetus became supplemented by the needs of independent 

 researchers, students, and fishery resource managers who work with this 



species. 



Research began with a review and update of existing bibliographies on 

 Argopecten irradians : Kopinski's "Partially Annotated Bibliography of 

 Commercially Exploited Scallops (Pectinidae, Raffinesque, 1815)" (1978), and 

 Tabarini's "A Partial Bibliography of the Bay Scallop, Argopecten irradians , 

 1960-1980" (1982). Vie augmented this core bibliography witn entries gleaned 

 from major scientific abstracts, indexes, and pertinent DIALOG databases. 

 Review of the principal fishery journals and of marine science accessions 

 lists resulted in additional entries. 



Once the identification phase was complete, we located hard copies of 

 each citation by searching our on-site collection, and by requesting copies 

 not located on-site from other libraries and from the authors themselves. All 

 of the articles that we obtained were examined for pertinency, bibliographic 

 accuracy, and supplementary citations. A small percentage of the articles-- 

 mostly reports--could not be obtained. These are noted in the bibliography by 

 an asterisk. Because these articles were unavailable, they have not been 

 reviewed for either bibliographic accuracy or pertinency, indexing, which was 

 done on the basis of title only, may thus be inaccurate or incomplete for the 

 unobtained articles. 



Both scientific and "gray" literature are included in the bibliography, 

 with the only restriction being that the items had to be published--a 

 restriction that forced us to disallow some gray literature citations. As an 

 aid to researchers and librarians, all citations are literatum ; no attempt was 

 made to correct misspellings or inaccuracies. 



There are two indices: author and subject. The author index considers 

 authorship to be the person{s) or corporate body responsible for the 

 intellectual content of the work. It includes personal authors, editors, 

 compilers, sponsoring agencies, and the like. The subject index serves as a 

 general index, with a limited number of access points. The author index 

 begins on page 55; the subject index begins on page 73. 



We thank the many librarians who willingly helped in our search, 

 especially those at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, the National Sea 

 Grant Depository, and the NMFS's Northwest and Alaska Fisheries Center. We 

 also thank Michael Castagna of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and 

 Ken Kelley of the Nantucket Shellfish and Marine Department who reviewed the 

 early drafts and apprised us of some articles that we had missed in our 

 search. Appreciation is also extended to Rita Riccio and Jon Gibson who 

 edited the manuscript, and to Valerie Van Etten who typed it. 



Use of trade names does not imply endorsement. 



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