This study provides preliminary support that Pamlico River SAV can serve as an important resource for some species of fish. Areas with SAV were significant for providing more fish, more species or both than unvegetated areas. It allowed for resource managers to build ideas on how to manage and study this resource. This study was not intended to be the end of SAV research on the Pamlico River but the beginning of questions about how we manage our estuarine and riverine SAV resources.
Most management is based on restricting human activities of one form or another.
This research was intended to provide the basis for questioning about how and why we manage our coastal resources.