Shellfish diseases : current concerns of the Northeast : proceedings of a sea grant-sponsored workshop held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, February 26, 1987
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Shellfish; Shellfish fisheries; DiseasesAbstract
This report is a summary of a workshop on shellfish disease issues of
current concern to the shellfishing industry of the northeastern United
States. The workshop, sponsored by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Sea Grant Program, was held on February 26, 1987, at the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution. Its principal aim was to keep the shellfishing
community abreast of the latest information on diseases of importance to wild
and cultured shellfish stocks in the area. Topics addressed by invited
speakers (scientists, managers, and growers) included 1) MSX oyster disease,
which has recently caused a high incidence of oyster mortality at one location
on Cape Cod, 2) tumors of soft-shell clams, 3) "brown tide," a new problem
with recent dramatic effects on scallops in New York and mussels in Rhode
Island, and 4) shellfish hatcheries and shellfish importation in relation to
disease concerns. The workshop was attended by more than 100 people,
primarily shellfishermen, shellfish officers, members of town shellfish
commissions, and shellfish biologists from Massachusetts.
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White, A. W. (1987). Shellfish diseases: current concerns of the Northeast: proceedings of a sea grant-sponsored workshop held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, February 26, 1987. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/7561Related items
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