Estuarine Research in the 1980s : The Hudson River Environmental Society Seventh Symposium on Hudson River Ecology Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. I	Physical and Chemical Ecology
1	General Evaluation of Hudson River Freshwater Flow Trends	3
2	Long-Term Variability and Predictability of Hudson River Physical and Chemical Characteristics	29
3	Recent Trends and Patterns in Selected Water Quality Parameters in the Mid-Hudson River Estuary	59
4	Impacts of Channel Dredging on Dissolved Oxygen and Other Physical Parameters in Haverstraw Bay	82
5	Evaluation of Induced Sedimentation in New York Harbor	105
6	Impact of Withdrawals on Hudson Salinity	134
7	Hudson River Radionuclide Research Revisited: Watershed Removal of Fallout Radionuclides and Long-Term Trends in the Estuary	152
Pt. II	Fishery Biology
8	Biology of the Shortnose Sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum Lesueur, 1818) in the Hudson River Estuary, New York	187
9	Distribution of the Shortnose Sturgeon in the Hudson River Estuary, 1984-1988	217
10	Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Bay Anchovy Eggs through Adults in the Hudson River Estuary	228
11	Abundance Trends in Hudson River White Perch	242
12	Effects of Year Class Strength on Size of Young-of-the-Year Striped Bass	265
13	Movements of Immature Striped Bass in the Hudson Estuary	276
Pt. III	Fisheries Methods
14	Quality Assurance and Quality Control Aspects of the Hudson River Utilities Environmental Studies	303
15	Accuracy of Catch per Unit Effort Indices of Atlantic Tomcod Abundance in the Hudson River	323
16	Postjuvenile Striped Bass Studies after the Settlement Agreement	339
17	Abundance of Selected Hudson River Fish Species in Previously Unsampled Regions: Effect on Standing Crop Estimates	348
18	Post-Yolk-Sac Larvae Abundance as an Index of Year Class Strength of Striped Bass in the Hudson River	376
19	Assessing the Effect of Compensation on the Risk of Population Decline and Extinction	392
Pt. IV	Estuarine Ecology
20	Aquatic Studies at the Hudson River Center Site	407
21	Fish Distribution Survey of Newark Bay, New Jersey, May 1987-April 1988	428
22	Biomass and Energetics of Consumers in the Lower Food Web of the Hudson River	446
23	Dynamics of Larval Fish Populations in a Hudson River Tidal Marsh	458
24	A Case for the Restoration of the Estuarine Ecosystem of Croton Bay/Croton River and Associated Tidal Marshes	476
Pt. V	Summary
25	What Do We Really Know about the Hudson?	491
	Abbreviations	497
	Literature Cited	499
	Contributors	539
	Index	543