Readings on finfish

    General

• Marine and estuarine fisheries news
• Species fact sheets
• Major fish species from Chesapeake Bay
• Spawning, migration and fish passages


Menhaden

• Atlantic menhaden: introduction and maps of spatial abundance in Chesapeake Bay
• Controversy sidelines proposed study of Bay menhaden (February 1995)
• Concern growing about health of menhaden stock (Bay Journal, April 1998)
• Latest data show decline in menhaden, despite spawning potential (July 1998)
• Menhaden lesions (November 1998)
• Out of the frying pan & into the fryer: Bay's menhaden fishery history (April 1999)
• Panel recommends overhaul of menhaden management (April 1999)
• Ecological role of Atlantic menhaden in Chesapeake Bay and implications for fishery management (Sara Gottlieb, M.S. thesis; Adobe acrobat .pdf file)


Striped bass

• Starvation and malnutrition of adult striped bass in Chesapeake Bay (Bay Journal, Dec. 1997)
• Rockfish sores spur speculation of food web out-of-whack (Jan-Feb 1998)
• Virginia juvenile striped bass seine survey
• 1998 Striped Bass Young-Of-Year Index Shows Healthy Reproduction
• They're back - the incredible resurgence of striped bass
• Rockfish spawn setting records in Bay
• Rockfish quota increases in Bay, holds steady off coast
• Spawning stripers on demand - basic research
• MD, VA rockfish reproduction indices better than average (Nov. 1998)
• Striped bass in trouble? It's unclear (Dec. 1998)


Atlantic sturgeon

Atlantic sturgeon, thought extinct in Bay, may have spawned here


Trawl data

• TIES mid-water trawl data - aggregated fish biomass and individual species
• VIMS Juvenile Abundance Monitoring Survey
•    Juvenile indices from trawl surveys for assorted species
•    Juvenile indices from seine surveys


American shad

• Wild shad returning to Susquehanna
• Susquehanna marks record number of shad
• Quotas stir up pretty kettle of fish


Multispecies management

• Overfishing and multispecies management: it's a fish-eat-fish world (May 1998)
• CHESAPEAKE Bay Fisheries: Prospects for Multispecies Management and Sustainability
• Pfiesteria and fish health
• Prospects for Multispecies Fisheries Management in Chesapeake Bay: A Workshop. (STAC Publication 98-002) August 1998; Co-Convenors: E.D. Houde, M.J. Fogarty, T.J. Miller.