MID-ATLANTIC CHAPTER

Mid-atlantic Chapter of the American Fisheries Society

Nematocarcinus Milne Edwards, 1881 (Crustacea, Decapoda) from Southwestern Atlantic, including the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge area.

The deep sea shrimp genus Nematocarcinus Milne Edwards, 1881 includes 47 species, ten of them have been recorded from the Atlantic Ocean. Herein, material sampled during three scientific projects (REVIZEE Central Fishery project; Campos Basin Deep Sea Environmental Project; Evaluation of Environmental Heterogeneity in the Campos Basin) made in the Southwestern Atlantic, off Brazil, is examined....

Expert elicitation of seasonal abundance of North Atlantic right whales Eubalaena glacialis in the mid-Atlantic

North Atlantic right whales Eubalaena glacialis are among the most endangered of the large whales. Although protected since 1935, their abundance has remained low. Right whales occupy the Atlantic Ocean from southern Greenland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence south to Florida. The highly industrialized mid-Atlantic region is part of the right whales’ migratory corridor, and gaps in knowledge of the...

2017 Annual Meeting of the APS Mid-Atlantic Section

Growth and Brood Reduction of Mid-atlantic Coast Ospreys

-Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) exhibit both large geographic differences in growth rate and variable levels of brood reduction, which are assumed dependent on local prey abundance. We examined Ospreys nesting along the mid-Atlantic coast to determine how growth rate and brood reduction were influenced by an abundant, available prey base. Growth rate was substantially higher than previously report...