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Kurtz. 1860. 



Catalogue of the shells of N. & S. Carolina. 



According to Jacot (1921), abstracted elsewhere in this bibliography, this 

 is a list without localities. We decided that it was not worth the effort 

 to search for this paper. The incomplete reference above is all that was 

 given by Jacot. - J.L.M. 



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Lackey, James B. (1951) . - date uncertain. 



The rehabilitation of Great South Bay. Unpub. ms report 25 p. including 

 tables (available in J.L.M. personal library - source not known). 



Declining production and poor condition of Crassostrea virginica and 

 Mercenaria mercenaria were reported. Great South Bay was a good setting 

 and fattening area for oyster until about 1940. In the next decade the 

 oyster industry declined and might vanish. Scallops were completely gone. 

 Clams were still harvested in quantity, but quality was not as good as 

 before. Appearance of water was bad. Phosphates were unusually high 

 (more than 20 times the amount that could produce algal blooms) . Nitrates 

 were low (1/30 to 1/5 of the expected amount) . In summer the varieties of 

 plankton organisms decreased, and numbers of organisms, with one exception, 

 were lower than expected by comparison with other waters. The exception was 

 a very small green alga of 2 to 8 p. This was called "small form" by J.B. 

 Glancy. For 19 yrs it increased to bloom proportions between 1 May and 

 1 June and lasted as a bloom until December. The bloom was yellow-green. 

 As many as 4.5x10^ cells/ml were found in Bay water. No large population of 

 any other plankton organism was present. Fertilization of Bay waters was 

 attributed to wastes from duck farms, mostly from Moriches Bay, and poor 

 flushing. Sludge was present in Carmans and Forge rivers. The duck 

 industry began about 1890. By 1924 the total population was 1.5xl0 6 ducks, 

 by 1930 2.0x106, 1933 3.0xl0 6 , 1941 6xl0 6 , and 1950 5.9xl0 6 . Great South 

 Bay is about 100 mi 2 or 2.5xl0 9 ft 2 . Shellfish grounds occupied about half 

 of the Bay and the shellfish population averaged 3 animals/ft 2 . Therefore 

 the total population was about 3.75xl0 9 shellfish. At 375 mollusks/bu this 

 equals about 10 million bushels. Possible abatement measures are to 1) treat 

 duck farm wastes, 2) exclude Moriches Bay water by a bridge across the 

 channel at Smith's Point with tidal gates to control flow. - J.L.M. 



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Lackey, James B. , George Vander Borgh (sic), Jr., and Joseph B. Glancy. 1954. 



General character of plankton organisms in water overlying shellfish-producing 

 ground. Natl. Shellf. Assn., Convention Addresses 1952: 152-156 (date of 

 publication estimated) . 



The relation of kinds and quantities of food organism to abundance and 

 condition of specific bivalves is not discussed except to note that in 

 Great South Bay, Long Island, N.Y., where plankton abundance was very high, 

 oysters were in such poor condition as to be useless. Examination of 

 plankton at Woods Hole, Mass., Long Island Sound, Gardiners, Peconic, and 

 Great South Bays, N.Y., and Solomons and St. Mary's City, Md. led to the 

 general conclusion that any inshore water probably can provide enough 

 plankton to maintain a large and thriving shellfish population. Preferred 

 foods probably were diatoms and dinof lagellates for adult shellfishes and 

 relatively small plankton populations probably were best. The critical 

 factor was kind, rather than abundance of food, and for larvae smaller 

 plankton flagellates were best. Hard clam is mentioned. - J.L.M. 



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