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Observations on the Fal Estuary Oyster Beds during 1926, including a study in Over-fishing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. H. Orton
J. H. Orton
Affiliation:
Chief Naturalist at the Plymouth Laboratory.
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During the summer and autumn of 1926 frequent visits were made to the oyster beds in the upper Fal Estuary, and in view of the continued decline in the yield of oysters from these grounds, the opportunity was taken to record any facts which, besides being of value in the study of the bionomics of the oyster, might also be helpful in determining those steps most likely to lead towards an improvement of the general state of the fishery. A special investigation of the spawning in relation to tides and temperature was made, and will be compared in a separate publication with similar work carried out at about the same time on the River Blackwater beds in Essex.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , May 1927 , pp. 923 - 934
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1927

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Orton, J. H. 1926 a. Report on a Survey of the Fal Estuary Oyster Beds (November, 1924) with Notes on the Biology of the Oyster. Falmouth, 1926.Google Scholar
Orton, J. H. 1926 b. On Lunar Periodicity in Spawning of normally grown Falmouth Oysters (O. edulis) in 1925, with a Comparison of the Spawning Capacity of normally grown and dumpy Oysters. Journ. Mar. Biol. Assoc., N.S., Vol. XIV, No. 1, 1926.Google Scholar