Quantitative assessments of many West coast rockfish stocks of both major and
minor importance to commercial fisheries have shown varying declines in abundances. The population sizes of less-abundant, co-occurring unassessed species may also be
declining. However, determining stock status of the many non-targeted, minor species with high levels of certainty...
With legislation to protect wetlands and current pressures to convert them to other uses, it is often necessary to accurately determine a wetland-upland boundary. We investigated 6 methods to establish such a boundary based on vegetation. Each method was applied to a common data set obtained from 295 quadrats along...
Gravity observations were made with the LaCoste-Romberg underwater
gravity meter during July and August 1962 at 149 stations
in an area 10 by 40 miles (44°10' to 44°50'N latitude and 124°
07' to 124°20'W longitude) off the north-central Oregon coast
from Heceta Head to Depoe Bay. The primary purpose of...
Manganese nodules are concretions which are widely distributed on
the bottom of marine waters as well as on the bottom of some lakes.
They vary in size, abundance, and to some extent composition, with
location. The nodules are of potential economic value because of the
nickel, copper, cobalt and manganese...
This report presents the results of analyses of several
hundred Pacific Hake, Merluccius productus, for zinc (Zn), zinc-65
(65Zn), cadmium (Cd), and mercury (Hg). The fish were collected
off the coast of the western United States in 1969-1972. In
addition, some data from mercury analyses of fresh and seawater
samples...