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Our field study showed that the total amount of sediment disturbed in Corpus Christi Bay each year by shrimp trawling is 10-100 times greater than that dredged in an average year for maintenance of shipping channels. The maximum concentrations of suspended sediment measured in the trails of the shrimp boats were comparable of the dredge operating in the same area. of 3% is obtained.
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Schubel, J. R., H. H. Carter, R. E. Wilson, W. M. Wise, M. G. Heaton, M. G. Gross. 1978. Field Investigations of Nature, Degree and Extent of Turbidity Generated by Open-Water Pipeline Disposal Operations. Technical Report. D-78-30 U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, CE, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 245 p. + Appendix.
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Contribution No. 227 of the Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794.
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Schubel, J.R., Carter, H.H. & Wise, W.M. Shrimping as a source of suspended sediment in Corpus Christi Bay (Texas). Estuaries 2, 201–203 (1979). https://doi.org/10.2307/1351737
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1351737