A Protocol for

Use of Shortnose

and Atlantic Sturgeons

Mary L. Moser

Mark Bain

Mark R. Collins

Nancy Haley

Boyd Kynard

John C. O’Herron II

Gordon Rogers

Thomas S. Squiers

U.S. Department of Commerce

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

National Marine Fisheries Service

NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-18

May 2000
A copy of this report may be obtained from:

NMFS Office of Protected Resources

1315 East-West Highway

Silver Spring, MD 20910

or on the interet at:

http://www.nmfs.gov/prot_res/prot_res.html
A Protocol for

Use of Shortnose

and Atlantic Sturgeons

Mary L. Moser Mark Bain

Center for Marine Science Research New York Cooperative

Univ. of North Carolina-Wilmington Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

7205 Wrightsville Avenue Fernow Hall,Cornell University

Wilmington, NC 28403 Ithaca, NY 14853-3001

Mark R. Collins Nancy Haley

S.C. Dept of Natural Resources National Marine Fisheries Service

P.O. Box 12559 212 Rogers Avenue

Charleston, SC, 29422-2559 Milford, CT 06460

Boyd Kynard John C. O’Herron II

Conte Anadromous Fish Research Lab O’Herron Biological and

USGS/BRD 1 Migratory Way Environmental Consulting

Turners Falls, MA 01376 220 Washington Street

Mount Holly, NJ 08060

Gordon Rogers Thomas S. Squiers

Satilla Management Associates/ Maine Dept. of Marine Resources

Southern Resources and Environ. Serv. State House, Station Number 21

Route 2, Box 7A-1 Augusta, ME 04333

Waynesville, GA 31566

NOAA Technical Memorandum

NMFS-OPR-18

May 2000

U.S. Department of Commerce

William M. Daley, Secretary

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

D. James Baker, Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere

National Marine Fisheries Service

Penelope D. Dalton, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries




	




	


	
	
	







	
		



	


	
	

	


	

	


	
	
	

	


	



	


		




	

		
	
	


		

	




	
	
	






	
		






	


	


	
		

 
	

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