Nursery grounds and maturation of the sandbar shark in the western North Atlantic

• Main Author: Merson, Rebeka Rand
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: DigitalCommons@URI 1998
• Subjects: Oceanography|Zoology; South Bay; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI9921548

Surveys were conducted in selected coastal bays from Delaware to New York to describe sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) essential habitat, assess abundance, growth during the nursery season, and length-at-birth in Delaware Bay, and to delimit the current northern limit of pupping grounds along t...