Mud blister worm infestation and recovery in farmed oysters along the Alabama Coast, June-July, 2017.

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Data included here relates to two experiments conducted in off-bottom oyster farms along Alabama?s coast. Data includes information related to worm abundance, blister abundance, shucking force, blister-popping force, and re-infestation dynamics across three oyster farms.

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Author Kelly Dorgan
Maintainer data@disl.org
Last Updated July 22, 2022, 22:52 (UTC)
Created July 22, 2022, 22:52 (UTC)
Content Create Date 2019-08-14
ISO.pointOfContact DISL Data Management
ISO.principalInvestigator Kelly Dorgan <kdorgan@disl.org>
ISO.principalInvestigator.1 Kelly Dorgan <kdorgan@disl.org>
Place Keywords Dauphin Island Sea Lab, DISL
Temporal Begin 2016-06-01
Temporal End 2017-07-25
Theme Keywords Polydora websteri, biofouling, oyster aquaculture, Crassostrea virginica, mud blister breaking force, burrows
Use Constraints This publication was supported by the U.S. Department of Commerce?s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under NOAA Award NA18OAR4170080 and the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium. The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of any of these organizations. Acknowledgment of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) and all funding sources is required in products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment as is standard for citation and legal practices for data source is expected by users of these data. Users should be aware that comparison with other data sets for the same area from other time periods may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from changes in mapping conventions, data collection, QA/QC procedures, and computer processes over time. The distributor shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of these data, based on the description of appropriate/inappropriate uses described in the metadata document. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such.
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