PREFACE 



This report is published to provide coastal engineers with a low-cost 

 eelgrass transplanting technique which is suitable for establishment in both 

 high current and quiescent marine habitats. It is intended to update infor- 

 mation on planting techniques presented in "Planting Guidelines for Sea- 

 grasses," (Phillips, 1980). 



The work was carried out under the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research 

 Center's (CERC) Coastal Engineering Uses of Submerged Plants work unit, Envi- 

 ronmental Impact Program, Environmental Quality Area of Civil Works Research 

 and Development. 



The report was prepared by Mark S. Fonseca, Department of Environmental 

 Sciences, University of Virginia, in affiliation with the National Marine 

 Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Center, Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, 

 North Carolina, and W. Judson Kenworthy and Gordon W. Thayer of the Beaufort 

 Laboratory. 



The authors express appreciation to M. LaCroix and T. Currin for assist- 

 ance in field exercises, and to H. Gordy for graphics. 



Paul L. Knutson was technical monitor for this report, under the general 

 supervision of E.J. Pullen, Chief, Coastal Ecology Branch and Mr. R.P. Savage, 

 Chief, Research Division, CERC. 



Technical Director of CERC was Dr. Robert W. Whalin, P.E., upon publica- 

 tion of this report. 



Comments on this publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th Congress, 

 approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th Congress, 

 approved 7 November 1963. 



TED E. BISHOP 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 



Commander and Director 



