The Decline of Fisheries Resources in New England: Evaluating

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the Impact of Overfishing, Contamination, and Habitat Degradation

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2005

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Contents

Preface iv

I. Contamination, Habitat Degradation, Overfishing - An “Either-Or” Debate? 1

William E. Robinson and Judith Pederson

II. The New England Groundfish Resource: A History of Population Change in Relation to

Harvesting 11

Steven A. Murawski

III Recent Trends in Anadromous Fishes 25

John Moring

IV. Pollutant Effects upon Cod, Haddock, Pollock, and Flounder of the Inshore Fisheries of

Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays 43

Frederick P. Thurberg and Edith Gould

V. The Effect of Habitat Loss and Degradation on Fisheries 67

Linda A. Deegan and Robert Buchsbaum

VI. Effects of Natural Mortality and Harvesting on Inshore Bivalve Population Trends 97

Diane J. Brousseau

VII. Biological Effects of Contaminants on Marine Shellfish and Implications for Monitoring

Population Impacts 119

Judith E. McDowell

VIII. Are We Overfishing the American Lobster? Some Biological Perspectives 131

Robert S. Steneck

IX. The Role of Overfishing, Pollution, and Habitat Degradation on Marine Fish and Shellfish

Populations of New England: Summary and Conclusions 149

Robert Buchsbaum

X. Management Implications: Looking Ahead 163