UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 



BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES 



Oyster Mortalities, with Particular Reference 

 to Chesapeake Bay and 



the Atlantic Coast of North America 



By 

 CARL J. SINDERMANN 



United States Fish and Wildlife Service 

 Special Scientific Report—Fisheries No, 569 



Washington, D.C. 

 July 1968 



