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| ROCKWEED 101: BASIC INFORMATION |
| BOFEP FUNDY ISSUES: The seaweed forest |
| GULF OF MAINE ROCKWEED: CONSERVATION ISSUES (from "Gulf of Maine Rockweed: Management in the face of scientific uncertainty", a workshop in St. Andrews, N.B., December 1999) |
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| PLEASE SEE OUR MEDIA PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION! |
| THE QUODDY TIDES (Eastport, ME) COBSCOOK SOUNDINGS: Life within the rockweed COBSCOOK SOUNDINGS: ROCKWEED: Understanding the impacts of harvesting |
| From Fisheries and Oceans, Halifax, NS: Environmental habitat quality guidelines/requirements for Rockweed. Includes information on its range, basic biology, and use by humans; 28 references |
| MAINE DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: HABITAT RANKING MANUAL (see p. 5) Explains the use of rockweed as a habitat: as a nursery for commercial species, as a primary producer, high primary/secondary production, shelter, structure for attachment of settling larvae, food resources for one or more functional groups, variety of functional groups represented, sediment and nutrient sink and/or source, nutrient recycling, production and export of detritus, foraging area for shorebirds and/or wading birds, reduces coastal erosion, supports commercial fisheries |
| MAINE DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: Function and values of rockweed |
| MAINE SEAWEED COUNCIL WEBSITE |
| COBSCOOK BAY RESOURCE CENTER: NOTES ON GULF OF MAINE ROCKWEED CONFERENCE |