The Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study
The Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study was formulated on the deep need to preserve the long-term productivity of a unique and complex estuarine system. As the traditional way of life in...
Wetland Enhancement Near Columbia River Mile 68
The May 18, 1980 and subsequent eruptions of the Mt. St. Helen's volcano, and consequential ashy river sedimentation have caused major changes to a wetland adjacent to Carrolls...
Salmon Restoration in Humboldt Bay: A Model of Citizen and Government Participation
Two organizations emerged in 1969 that successfully brought together a wide variety of public and private entities and government agencies with the goal of reversing the decline of the...
Tractive Flows Adjacent to Site for Submarine Sewage Pipeline
Twin 3200 m long submarine sewage pipelines for the city of Vancouver are being placed across the outer tidal flats and upper slope of the Fraser River delta to a water depth of 107 m....
Redevelopment of a Commercial Fishing Harbor: A Tale of Three Cities (
The paper referred to in this abstract forms a trilogy of the author's presentation at previous Coastal Zone Symposium at which he traced the development of two small fishing...
Still More on Japan's Inland Sea Coastal Citizens' Movements
This paper is the third in a continuing series of reports on the battle of Japan's coastal citizens in that nation's largest estuarine water body, the famed Seto...
An Innovative Analysis of Port Development Impacts on a Coastal National Wildlife Refuge
Development at Savannah Harbor, Georgia, has resulted in an upstream movement of salt water in the lower Savannah River system. Increased salinity has adversely affected and complicated...
New Tools for Economic Evaluation of Channel Deepening Projects
The Institute for Water Resources has developed a data base to facilitate economic evaluation of channel deepening projects. After extensive research, data elements were selected from...
The Nushagak-Mulchatna Rivers Recreation Study
The Nushagak/Mulchatna River drainage was one of two geographical areas identified in the Bristol Bay Coastal Management Program as meeting the criteria for placing a specific area under...
Fish Histopathology and Contamination in California's Channel Islands
Ocean dumping of certain hazardous wastes took place at two dumpsites in the San Pedro Channel of the Southern California Bight from the 1940s through the 1960s. This included some 700...
Louisiana Estuaries: Issues, Resources, Status and Management
Louisiana has more extensive estuarine environments than any other state. These estuaries are comparatively young, having been formed in part by the building and destruction of lobes of...
Restoration of Atlantic Salmon to Maine: Overcoming Physical and Biological Problems in the Estuary
By the early part of the Twentieth Century, all native runs of anadromous Atlantic salmon (Salmo Salar) were extirpated from rivers of the United States, with the exception of a few small...
Fish Wintering in the Sagavanirktok Delta, Alaska
Anadromous fish of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea overwinter for eight to nine months in isolated pools of coastal rivers where water remains unfrozen through the winter. Available overwintering...
Patuxent River Policy Plan
Degradation of the Patuxent River, a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, prompted the Maryland General Assembly to establish the Patuxent River Commission and require preparation of...
Nisqually River Management Plan
The Nisqually River is unique in Washington State, if not the nation, in having as its headwaters a glacier within a national park, and its estuary within a national wildlife refuge. The...
Special Canada-U.S. Workshop/Panel
Panel members with hands-on-experience in estuarine planning and management are drawn from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California. They highlight those factors which they...
Changing Waterfront Uses on the River Clyde, Scotland: A Preliminary Survey
The River Clyde in Scotland was renowned for its shipbuilding and shipping facilities. However, dislocations combined with government policy have forced since the early 1960's...
An Innovative Solution to the Difficult Coastal Zone Management Problem of Dredge Material Disposal
The New York Power Authority is constructing a 300 km predominantly double circuit 345kV transmission facility through southeastern New York State. A key element in this project is the...
Little River: An Investigation of Coastal Environment
Little River is located about 6. 5 kilometres north of Comox on the east side of Vancouver Island. The last major flood in February of 1983 resulted in the river breaking through the beach...
Cogenerating Columbia River Salmon and Hydropower
In recent years a number of regional institutional arrangements have been consumated which have potential for reducing overfishing of Columbia River chinook stocks. In the Pacific Northwest...
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