An incomplete analysis
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Abstract
Niles and colleagues (2009) do not present all of the data relevant to the issues they address in the article they wrote for BioScience. They reference unnamed sources for pre-1997 horseshoe crab harvest to conclude that recent harvest exceeds historic harvest. In fact, reported landings from New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia in 2006 (352 metric tons [mt]) were between landings in 1989 (365 mt) and 1990 (232 mt) (www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st1/commercial/inaex.html), despite nonmandatory reporting coastwide before 1998 (Kreamer and Michels 2009). They present egg densities from New Jersey beaches only. Of the 11 Delaware beaches sampled, eggs in the top 5 centimeters exceeded their monitoring target of 50,000 per square meter at 5 in 2006 and at 6 in 2007 (Kalasz et al. 2008). They rely on the Delaware trawl survey for historic trends. Nine fishery-independent surveys have been used to assess trends in the Delaware Bay region, and several began before 1990 (Smith et al. 2009a).
Suggested Citation
Smith, D., Hallerman, E.M., Millard, M.J., Sweka, J.A., Weber, R.G., 2009, An incomplete analysis: BioScience, v. 59, no. 7, p. 541-541, https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2009.59.7.20.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | An incomplete analysis |
| Series title | BioScience |
| DOI | 10.1525/bio.2009.59.7.20 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Year Published | 2009 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | American Institute of Biological Sciences |
| Contributing office(s) | Leetown Science Center |
| Description | 1 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | BioScience |
| First page | 541 |
| Last page | 541 |