III. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 



1. ADKINS, G., and BOWMAN, P., "A Study of the Fauna in Dredged Canals of 

 Coastal Louisiana," Teohrwlogical Bulletin of the Louisiana Wildlife and 

 Fisheries Commission, No, 18, Feb. 1976. 



Samples were made on four environmental types: (a) open, unaltered areas, 

 (b) open canals, (c) semiopen canals, and (d) closed canals.. Sampling was 

 accomplished by using various gear over a 2-year period. During the study, 

 67,560 individuals composed of 88 different species were collected. The 

 open, undisturbed areas offered the largest numbers of individuals and the 

 closed canals contained the fewest, although the animals collected in the 

 closed canals were larger. A decrease in catch and in species diversity of 

 planktonic organisms was noted in closed canals. Hydrological conditions were 

 most stable in closed canals. Dissolved oxygen remained within tolerance limits 

 of marine organisims during most of the study; however, fish kills were observed 

 in semiopen and closed canals. Water chemistry reflected a fluctuation trend 

 dependent on freshwater and saltwater intrusion. Peak levels of most nutrients 

 were recorded following flooding conditions of storm surges caused by the pas- 

 sage of hurricanes. 



2. APPLIED BIOLOGY, INC., "Literature Review for the Assessment of Larval Fish 

 and Shellfish Movement Through Oregon Inlet and the Potential Effects of 

 Inlet Stabilization by Jetties," U.S. Army Engineer District, Wilmington, 

 Wilmington, N.C., unpublished, Apr. 1980. 



This literature evaluates the potential effects of jetty emplacement on 

 ocean-to-estuary larval transport at Oregon Inlet, North Carolina. Commercially 

 important fish and shellfish in Pamlico Sound can be categorized in terms of 

 their vulnerability to potential jetty construction effects by assessing their 

 migratory patterns and life-cycle relationships to estuarine nurseries. Sea- 

 sonal observation of larval density distributions, in association with current 

 direction and speed data, would allow a prediction of jetty emplacement effects 

 and provide a data base for comparison with postconstruction monitoring study 

 results. 



3. ARNER, D.H., et al., "Effects of Channelization of the Luxapalia River on 

 Fish, Aquatic Invertebrates, Water Quality, and Furbearers," FWS/OBS-76- 

 08, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington D.C., June 1976. 



Biological data collected July 1973 to January 1976 from an old channelized 

 segment, an unchannelized segment, and a newly channelized segment of the 

 Luxapalia River in Mississippi and Alabama revealed that productivity of the 

 old channelized segment has not recovered to the levels exhibited in the unchan- 

 nelized segment. There was an increase in the turbidity trends and in the num- 

 ber of plankton organisms in the newly channelized segment. In the unchan- 

 nelized segment there was an increase in the average number per sample of fish 

 and macroinvertebrates and in the diversity of plankton, macroinvertebrates, 

 and fish. Utilization of an expanding habitat created by annual flooding was 

 indicated by the preponderance of terrestrial invertebrates found in the stom- 

 achs of fish collected behind the levee. Indexes of the abundance of furbearers 

 associated with the river were obtained by night lighting, sign count, and 

 trapping. Muskrat and beaver, the species most commonly associated with an 

 aquatic habitat, were far more numerous in the unchannelized segment than in 

 either the old or newly channelized segments. 



