Northern Assateague Island restoration project and the piping plover: a case study in Endangered Species Act inter-agency consultation

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Piping plovers are well-camouflaged shore birds that nest along the Atlantic Coast beaches and are listed under the Endangered Species Act, which requires inter-agency consultation to take place before embarking on any project that might disturb their habitat. A complex consultation between the National Park Service, the US Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been undertaken to discuss the effect on the birds of a proposed project to restore the beach on the north of Assateague Island. As a result of the consultation, continuous monitoring of the piping plover will accompany beach reconstruction, which is due to begin in fall 1999.

Plovers, Shore birds, Shorebirds, Shorelines, Assateague Island, Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland and Virginia

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The mussel/fish connection

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Identification of host fishes is essential for the recovery of 57 freshwater mussel species that are classified as threatened or endangered in the US. These mussel species are a benign parasite on specific species of fishes during a critical stage of their life cycle. This unusual reproductive strategy enables the mussels to disperse upstream. Decline in the number of several host fishes due to habitat degradation, pollution, presence of non-indigenous species, and other factors have significantly decreased the numbers of mussel species.

Research, Analysis, Fishes, Parasites, Fishery management

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Report from the field; community action called to 'rescue to riffleshell.' (northern riffleshell mussel)

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Volunteers led by Detroit Edison Company's Bill Kovalak staged a rescue mission for the northern riffleshell mussels, which are being displaced by a burgeoning zebra mussel population. The mission collected and moved over 100 riffleshell mussels from the Detroit River, MI, to the St. Clair River, MI, on Oct 10, 1992. In this century, the Detroit River has seen the number of its freshwater mussel species decline from 36 to 21.

Shellfish, Protection and preservation, Detroit River

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