Water Quality Models for Supporting Shellfish Harvesting Area Management
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Water Quality Models for Supporting Shellfish Harvesting Area Management by Andrew David Gronewold Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy Duke University
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The Newport River Estuary (NPRE), an important North Carolina (NC) shellfish harvesting area, has been experiencing alterations to the land-water interface due to increasing population and coastal development. Water quality degradation in the estuary over the last decade has led to an increase of shellfish harvesting area closures, and has been postulated to be due to non-point source contamina...
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