This book addresses specific water quality and pollution problems and documents the changes that occurred during the critical transition period when PCB dumping was discontinued and water treatment plants came into increased use. It will appeal to fishery biologists working with Atlantic coast species, people involved with estuaries worldwide, and to all environmentalists interested in the history of the landmark Hudson River Settlement Agreement.
The signing of the Hudson River Settlement Agreement ended more than a dozen years of controversial court battles over the placement of electric generating plants on the Hudson River estuary. Much of this agreement was based on original field research, the most compelling of which is found in this book. Fisheries Research in the Hudson River includes a summary of existing fisheries data bases, with comments on their strengths and weaknesses and a guide to their availability, as well as discussions of the natural history of striped bass, white perch, river herrings, tomcod, sturgeon, and a very important food source, the amphipod gammarus tigrinus. It also proposes a management plan for sturgeon, a plan based on an age-structured population model that demonstrates the practical application of basic scientific data.
"Fisheries Research in the Hudson River provides an important base for future studies of the Hudson River and of other rivers in the U.S." -- David Conover, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Dr. C. Lavett Smith is Curator for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Tables
List of Figures
Introduction
C. Lavett Smith
Part I Data Sets
1 Fisheries Data Sets Compiled by Utility-Sponsored Research in the Hudson River Estuary
Ronald J. Klauda, Paul H. Muessig and John A Matousek
Part II Striped Bass and White Perch
2 Commercial Fishery for Striped Bass in the Hudson River, 1931-80
James B. McLaren, Ronald J. Klauda, Thomas B. Hoff, and Marcia Gardinier
3. Age-Specific Variation in Reproductive Effort in Female Hudson River Striped Bass
John R Young and Thomas B. Hoff
4. Feeding Selectivity of Larval Striped Bass and White Perch in the Peekskill Region of the Hudson River
Douglas A Hjorth
5 Patterns of Movement of Striped Bass and White Perch Larvae in the Hudson River Estuary
Thomas L Englert and David Sugarman
Part III Sturgeons
6 Contribution to the Biology of Shortnose Sturgeon in the Hudson River Estuary
Thomas B. Hoff, Ronald J. Klauda, and John R Young
Part IV River Herrings
7 Distributions and Movements of the Early Life Stages of Three Species of Alosa in the Hudson River, with
Comments on Mechanisms to Reduce Interspecific Competition
Robert E. Schmidt, Ronald J. Klauda, and John M. Bartels
Part V Tomcod
8 Life History of Atlantic Tomcod, Microgadus tomcod, in the Hudson River Estuary, with Emphasis on Spatio-Temporal Distribution and Movements
Ronald J. Klauda, Richard E. Moos, and Robert E. Schmidt
Part VI Food Chains
9 Food Habits of the Amphipod Gammarus tigrinus in the Hudson River and the Effects of Diet Upon Its Growth and Reproduction
Gerald V. Poje, Stacey A. Riordan, and Joseph M. O'Connor
Part VII Pollution
10 Heavy Metals in Finfish and Selected Macroinvertebrates of the Lower Hudson River Estuary
Stephen J. Koepp, Edward D. Santoro, and Gerard DiNardo
11 Recent Dissolved Oxygen Trends in the Hudson River
Jeffrey A. Leslie, Karim A. Abood, Edward A. Maikish, and Pamela J. Keeser
12 PCB Patterns in Hudson River Fish: I. Resident Freshwater Species
R. W. Armstrong and R. J. Sloan
13 PCB Patterns in Hudson River Fish: II. Migrant and Marine Species
R. J. Sloan and R. W. Armstrong
Part VIII Management
14 Management Recommendations for a Hudson River Atlantic Sturgeon Fishery Based On an Age-Structured Population Model
John R. Young, Thomas B. Hoff, William P. Dey, and James G.Hoff
Literature Cited
List of Contributors
Index
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