Use of dead reef shell and its relation to estuarine conservation

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dc.acquisition-srcDownloaded from-Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstractsen_US
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dc.contributor.authorGunter Gen_US
dc.contributor.otherTrans North Am Wildl Conf no 37, pp 110-121 1972en_US
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dc.date.issued1972en_US
dc.degreeen_US
dc.description110-121en_US
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dc.description.abstractA great deal of opposition among the general populace of coastal areas has developed to digging dead reef shell buried under the mud in spite of the fact that the operations vary from innocuous to beneficial, and in some instances, highly beneficial over and above the wealth gathered from the ground. Instances are given above and recommendations are made for the removal of another reef which would benefit Galveston Bay. Aside from objections which are preposterous, such as the statements that dredging will change the salinity of the water and pollute the bay by stirring up the bacteria on the bottom, the anti-dredgers seem to object mostly to the stirring up of the sediment or mud. They fail to realize that this material is not filth, but contains nutrient salts which enhance plankton growth when thrown back into the water. Additionally, these people simply do not realize that the sedimentation movement caused by the shell dredge is minuscule when compared to the sediment movement caused by the weather, water currents and natural geological processes which are going on all the time. These people should be taught carefully and patiently and, for the time being for the general welfare of everyone involved, they should be ignoreden_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/23170
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dc.notesRecords keyed from 1973 ASFA printed journalsEnglishEnglishJournal ArticleMarine1973en_US
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dc.relation.ispartofseries50741.00en_US
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dc.scaleen_US
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dc.subjectBacteriaen_US
dc.subjectconservationen_US
dc.subjectDOen_US
dc.subjectDredgingen_US
dc.subjectGalveston Bayen_US
dc.subjectgrowthen_US
dc.subjectmuden_US
dc.subjectPlanktonen_US
dc.subjectQ1 01381 Generalen_US
dc.subjectSalinityen_US
dc.subjectSedimenten_US
dc.subjectsedimentationen_US
dc.subjectspringen_US
dc.subjectSpringsen_US
dc.subjectUSAen_US
dc.subjectuseen_US
dc.subjectwateren_US
dc.subjectWater currentsen_US
dc.subjectWeatheren_US
dc.titleUse of dead reef shell and its relation to estuarine conservationen_US
dc.typeJournalen_US
dc.universityen_US
dc.vol-issue(37)en_US

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