Assessment of the benthic environment following offshore placer gold mining in Norton Sound, northeastern Bering Sea

• Main Author: Jewett, Stephen Carl
• Other Authors: Smith, Ronald L.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: Environmental engineering; Mining engineering; Environmental science; Biological oceanography; Bering Sea; Fairbanks; Norton Sound; Pacific; Paralithodes camtschaticus; Red king crab; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/9482

Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1997 The effects of placer gold mining on the benthic environment of Norton Sound in the northeastern Bering Sea were assessed. Research focused on red king crab Paralithodes camtschaticus, a species with commercial and subsistence importance in t...