1913 



Walford, Lionel A. (Director). 1971. 



Review of aquatic resources and hydrographic characteristics of Raritan, Lower 

 New York and Sandy Hook Bays. Rept. prepared for Battelle Inst, by staff of 

 Sandy Hook Sport Fish. Mar Lab., U.S. Dept. Commerce, NOAA, NMFS , Highlands, 

 N.J., manuscript rept., 67 p. (Another version, same date, has 86 pages.) 



Dredge samples taken in western Raritan Bay had impoverished faunas, with the 

 exception of Mereenaria mereenaria. Adult hard clams were not uniformly 

 distributed in Lower and Raritan Bays. Density ranged from one clam/6 ft 2 to 

 one clam/170 ft2. N.Y. waters had greater numbers of commercial-size clams 

 and Raritan Bay greater numbers of smaller clams. It was suggested that 

 normal reproduction and recruitment may not occur in more heavily polluted 

 waters, even though adults may continue to survive in such places. Less than 

 1% of clams taken were of sublegal size. Standing crops of adult quahogs in 

 Raritan Bay were similar to or exceeded those reported for Narragansett Bay 

 by Pratt (1953) , abstracted elsewhere in this bibliography. Standing crops 

 much larger than those in Raritan Bay are possible, for Belding (1912), 

 abstracted elsewhere in this bibliography, found 20 clams/ft 2 on some beds in 

 Mass. - J.L.M. 



1914 



Walker, A. 0. 1894. 



Venus mereenaria Linn. American clam. Proc. Chester Soc. Nat. Sci. 4: 210. 



According to Heppell (1961) Walker stated that the flushing pool of the Dee 

 River at Bagillt Wharf was cleaned out to a depth of 2 ft of mud in 1888 but 

 no trace was found of hard clams planted in 1883. - J.L.M. 



1915 



Wallace, Dana E. 1952. 



State and town shellfish planting programs in Maine. 3rd. Conf. on Clam 

 Research, 2 p. (mimeo) . 



Cooperative projects with towns and clam diggers to transplant seed quahogs 

 from areas of heavy set to commercial beds, and to close certain areas to 

 rehabilitate the stocks, are described. Some plantings also were done with 

 private planters. Final results were not reported. - J.L.M. 



1916 



Wallace, Dana. 1952. 



Age determination and growth rate of soft clams and quahogs in Maine. 3rd 

 Ann. Conf. on Clam Research, Boothbay Harbor, Me. U.S. Dept. Interior, Fish 

 Wildl. Serv.: 89-91. 



The samples were rather small. Growth ranged from 11-16 mm for 20-35 mm 

 clams to 5 to 17 mm for 36-58 mm clams. - J.L.M. 



1917 



Wallace, Dana E. 1953. 



Setting of Venus and My a in Maine as indicated by 1952 surveys. 4th Conf. on 

 Clam Research, 4 p. (mimeo). 



In mid-August 1952 substantial natural sets of both species were observed in 

 Maquoit Bay, Maine. Venus were 2-4 nun long and varied between 40 and 208 

 clams/ft2. The most recent large set of Venus was in 1947. One area, roughly 

 1,000 by 600 ft, had about 1,000 Venus/ft 2 . In another area Venus was 400 to 

 500 clams/ft 2 . In discussion it was brought out that Venus sets had survived 

 much better than My a in the previous few years. It was suggested that this was 

 caused by recent rises in water temp. - J.L.M. 



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