The Hamilton Bank-Hawke Channel region: potential as an offshore marine protected area?, a study to examine the physical, biological, economic, and social characteristics of an offshore fishing area

• Main Author: Brown, Thomas J.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 1999
• Subjects: Newfoundland; Labrador Shelf; Hamilton Bank; atlantic cod; North Atlantic; northern shrimp; Snow crab; University of Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/10220/; https://research.library.mun.ca/10220/1/Brown_ThomasJ.pdf

The Hamilton Bank-Hawke Channel area is one of the most productive offshore areas in the North Atlantic. This region exhibits outstanding oceanographic features, high primary production, and is important to marine mammals and sea birds. In the past, the region was ecologically vital to Atlantic cod,...