Summary of the Symposium on the Northeast U.S. Shelf Ecosystem: Stress, Mitigation, and Sustainability. Held in Narragansett, Rhode Island on August 12-15, 1991

摘要

A symposium on the Northeast U.S. Shelf Ecosystem, extending from the Gulf of Maine to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, was held on the Bay Campus of the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography during 12-15 August 1991. The objective of the symposium was to bring pertinent science to aid in the mitigation of severe stress imposed on the sustainability of the Northeast U.S. Shelf Ecosystem and its wetlands, estuaries, coastal zone, fisheries, marine mammals, and other resources.