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South Atlantic Slope Rivers Session

Saturday February 5, 2000

 
Moderator: Chuck Coomer, Georgia Department of Natural Resources Savannah Room
0820 Occurrence, Distribution, and Movement of Shortnose Sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) in the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
Stuart A. Welsh, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
0840 Effects of Watershed and Stream Habitat Conditions on Fish Communities in the Upper Roanoke River Watershed, Virginia.
Vann F. Stancil and Donald J. Orth, Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Tech
0900 Changes in the Fishery of the Altamaha River System after the Illegal Introduction of the Flathead Catfish.
Robert R. Weller, Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources
0920 Movement of Largemouth Bass in a Savannah River Tributary.
Tucker A. Jones, Clemson University, J. Jeffery Isely, S.C. Coop Fish and Wildlife Unit U.S. Geological Survey, Clemson University, Dean Fletcher, Savannah River Ecology Lab, and Michael Paller, Environmental Services Westinghouse Savannah River Corporation
1000 Break
1020 Savannah River Trout Stocking Evaluation.
Ed Bettross, GA Dept. of Natural Resources
1040 History of the Robust Redhorse in the Savannah River.
Tim Barrett, GA Dept. of Natural Resources
1100 A Fisheries Survey of the Tidal James River, Virginia.
Robert Greenlee and Dean Fowler, Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries, Mark King, Virginia Commonwealth University
1120 Recent Finfish Studies in the Savannah Harbor.
Mark Collins, Bill Post, Chris Walling, and Dan Russ, Marine Resources Research Institute SC DNR
1140 Pollution History of the Savannah River Estuary.
Clark Alexander, R. Lee, B. Loganathan, R. Smith, S. Wakeham, and H. Windom, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
1200 Lunch
Moderator: Russ England, Georgia Department of Natural Resources
1320 Savannah River Striped Bass and 10 Years of Recovery Effort: Where Are We Now?
Thomas R. Reinert, Ted Will, GA Coop Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and Cecil A. Jennings, U.S. Geological Survey-Biological Resources Division
1340 Use of Striped Bass Egg Surrogates to Assess Gear Detection Thresholds and Sampling Efficiency in the Savannah River Estuary.
Ted A. Will, Thomas R. Reinert, GA Coop Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and Cecil A. Jennings, U.S. Geological Survey-Biological Resources Division
1400 Habitat Utilization by Striped Bass in J. Strom Thurmond Reservoir During the Summer.
Shawn P. Young and J. Jeffery Isely, S.C. Coop Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Clemson University, and C. Wade Bales, S.C. Dept. of Natural Resources
1420 Estimation of Striped Bass Egg Drift Patterns in the Lower Savannah River using Gellan Gum Balls.
Bill Davin, Berry College
1500 Break
1520 Use of Ultrasonic Imaging to Assess the Reproductive Status of Striped Bass in the Savannah River Estuary.
Ted A. Will, Thomas R. Reinert, GA Coop Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and Cecil A. Jennings, U.S. Geological Survey-Biological Resources Division
1540 Overview of Harbor Deepening Impacts and Striped Bass Population Recovery in the Savannah River.
Thomas G. Meronek, GA Dept. of Natural Resources
1600 Back River Section 1135 Environmental Restoration Study, Savannah River.
Terry Straton, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
1620 A Bioenergetics Approach for Determining the Effect of Increased Striped Bass Population on its Prey in the Chesapeake Bay.
Anthony S. Overton, Jennifer C. Griffin, and F.J. Margra, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Maryland Coop Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
1640 Effects of Catch and Release Stress on Striped Bass, Morone saxatilis, as a function of angling time and temperature.
Julie A. Thompson, Steven G. Hughes, and Eric B. May Maryland Coop Fish and Wildlife Unit, University of Maryland