JUNE 1998

Contents of Volume 17, Number 1

SPECIAL SERIES:

Peter Cook and Jon Grant
Shellfish mariculture in the Benguela system, p. 2

P. M. S. Monteiro, B. Spolander, G. B. Brundrit and G. Nelson
Shellfish mariculture in the Benguela system: Estimates of nitrogen-driven new production in Saldanha Bay using two physical models, pp. 3-13

G. C. Pitcher and D. Calder
Shellfish mariculture in the Benguela system: Phytoplankton and the availability of food for commercial mussel farms in Saldanha Bay, South Africa, pp. 15-24

A. J. Boyd and K. G. Heasman
Shellfish mariculture in the Benguela system: Water flow patterns within a mussel farm in Saldanha Bay, South Africa, pp. 25-32

K. G. Heasman, G. C. Pftcher, C. D. McQuaid and T. Hecht
Shellfish mariculture in the Benguela system: Raft culture of Mytilus galloprovincialis and the effect of rope spacing on food extraction, growth rate, production, and condition of mussels, pp. 33-39

Jon Grant, Jeannie Stenton-Dozey, Pedro Monteiro, Grant Pitcher and Kevin Heasman
Shellfish culture in the Benguela system: A carbon budget of Saldanha Bay for raft culture of Mytilus galloprovincialis, pp. 41-49

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS:

D. K. A. Barnes, A. Corrie, M. Whittington, M. A. Carvalho and F. Gell
Coastal shellfish resource use in the Quirimba Archipelago, Mozambique, pp. 51-58

M. J. Kaiser, L Laing, S. D. Utting and G. M. Burnell
Environmental impacts of bivalve mariculture, pp. 59-66

Deida Compagnon, Georgina Lembeye, Narvis Marcos, Nathaly Ruiz-Tagle and Nestor Lagos
Accumulation of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins in the bivalve Aulacomya ater and two carnivorous gastropods Concholepas concholepas and Argobuccinum ranelliformes during an Alexandrium catenella bloom in southern Chile, pp. 67-73

Stephen J. Kleinschuster, Roxanna Smolowitz and Jason Parent
In vitro life cycle and propagation of Quahog parasite unknown, pp. 75-78

Jeffrey D. Shields, Michael A. Buchal and Carolyn S. Friedman
Microencapsulation as a potential control technique against sabellid worms in abalone culture, pp. 79-83

N. Chaitanawisuti and A. Kritsanapuntu
Growth and survival of hatchery-reared juvenile spotted Babylon, Babylonia areolata Lmk 1807 (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae), in four nursery culture conditions, pp. 85-88

Wayne A. O'Connor and Michael P. Heasman
Ontogenetic changes in salinity and temperature tolerance in the doughboy scallop, Mimachlamys asperrima, pp. 89-95

Marcel Le Pennec, Rene Robert and Miguel Avendano
The importance of gonadal development on larval production in Pectinids, pp. 97-101

Mario L Lasta and Claudia S. Bremec
Zygochlamys patagonica in the Argentine sea: A new scallop fishery, pp. 103-111

Gloria Martinez and Livia Mettifogo
Mobilization of energy from adductor muscle for gametogenesis of the scallop, Argopecten purpuratus Lamarck, pp. 113-116

Christophe M. Herbinger, Benedikte M. Vercaemer, Branimir Gjetvaj and Ron K. O'Dor
Absence of genetic differentiation among geographically close sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus G.) beds with cDNA and microsatellite markers, pp. 117-122

Juan B. Pena, Concha Rios, Samuel Pena and Joaquim Canales
Ultrastructural rnorphogenesis of pectinid spat from the western Mediterranean: A way to differentiate seven genera, pp. 123-130

Craig S. Wilding, John W. Latchford and Andy R. Beaumont
An investigation of possible stock structure in Pecten maximus (L.) using multivariate morphometrics, allozyme electrophoresis and mitochondrial DNA polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism, pp. 131-139

Rejean Tremblay, Bruno Myrand and Helga Guderley
Thermal sensitivity of organismal and rnitochondrial oxygen consumption in relation to susceptibility of blue mussels, Mytilus edulis (L.), to summer mortality, pp. 141-152

Jorge Caceres-Martinez and Antonio Figueras
Mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck) colonization on artificial substrates in the Ria de Vigo of NW Spain, pp. 153-157

Fuencisla San Juan Serrano, Pilar Suarez Alonso, S. Lucia Blanco Lopez and L Oscar Garcia Martin
Regulation of Mytilus galloprovincialis glycogen phosphorylase by glucose and glucose-6-phosphate, pp. 159-163

Oscar Iribarne and Florencia Botto
Orientation of the extant stout razor clam Tagelus plebeius in relation to current direction: Its paleoecological implication, pp. 165-168

C. Tirado and C. Salas
Reproduction and fecundity of Donax trunculus L., 1758 (Bivalvia: Donacidae) in the littoral of Malaga (Southern Spain), pp. 169-176

Daniel P. Molloy
The potential for using biological control technologies in the management of Dreissena spp., pp. 177-183

Kooichi Konishi, Kouichi Kawamura, Hirofumi Furuita and Akira Komaru
Spermatogenesis of the freshwater clam Corbicula aff. Fluminea Muller (Bivalvia: Corbiculidae), pp. 185-189

Nathalie Devillers, Arnold G. Eversole and J. Jeffery Isely
A comparison of four growth models for evaluating growth of the northern quahog Mercenaria mercenaria (L.), pp. 191-194

Sharook P. Madon, Daniel W. Schneider and James A. Stoeckel
In-situ estimation of zebra mussel metabolic rates using the electron transport system (ETS) assay, pp. 195-203

John N. Kraeuter, Stephen Fegley, G. E. Flimlin Jr. and George Mathis
The use of mesh bags for rearing northern quahog (hard clam), Mercenaria mercenaria, seed, pp. 205-209

Randal L Walker, Dorset M. Harley and Richard Kupfer
Growth and survival of Atlantic surfclam, Spisula solidissima, larvae and juveniles fed various microalga diets, pp. 211-214

N. Bourne, D. J. Noakes and G. D. Heritage
Effects of repeated digging on sublegal-sized manila clams, Tapes philippinarum, pp. 215-221

Matthew D. Smith and Christopher J. Langdon
Manila clam aquaculture on shrimp-infested mudflats, pp. 223-229

Carmen G. Paniagua-Chavez, John T. Buchanan and Terrence R. Tiersch
Effect of extender solutions and dilution on motility and fertilizing ability of eastern oyster sperm, pp. 231-237

Roger Mann and David A. Evans
Estimation of oyster, Crassostrea virginica, standing stock, larval production and advective loss in relation to observed recruitment in the James River, Virginia, pp. 239-253

Diane J. Brousseau, Jennifer C. Guedes, Cynthia A. Lakatos, Gary R. LeCleir and Robert L. Pinsonneault
A comprehensive survey of Long Island Sound oysters for the presence of the parasite, Perkinsus marinus, pp. 255-258

Jorge Caceres-Marnnez, Patricia Macias-Montes de Oca and Rebeca Vasquez-Yeomans
Polydora sp. Infestation and health of the pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas cultured in Baja California, NW Mexico, pp. 259-264

Yangkul Kim and Eric N. Powell
Influence of climate change on interannual variation in population attributes of Gulf of Mexico oysters, pp. 265-274

James T. Winstead
A histological study of digestive tubules in intertidal and subtidal oysters, Crassostrea virginica, collected at high and low tides, pp. 275-279

Joseph J. Taylor, Paul C. Southgate, Robert A. Rose and Anthony J. Keegan
Effects of larval set density on subsequent growth and survival of the silver-lip pearl oyster Pinctada maxima (Jameson), pp. 281-283

Miriam Fernandez and Juan Carlos Castilla
The Chilean artisanal stone crab (Homolaspis plana) fishery: Catch trends in open access zones and the effect of management areas in central Chile, pp. 285-291

Maria Lucia Negreiros-Fransozo and Jelly Makoto Nakagaki
Differential benthic occupation by crabs in the Ubatuba Bay, Sao Paulo, Brazil, pp. 293-297

Marcial Villalejo-Fuerte, Marcial Arellano-Martinez and Bertha Patricia Ceballos-Vazquez
Fecundity of the panamic spidercrab Maiopsis panamensis Faxon, 1893 (Brachyura: Majidae) in the Gulf of California, Mexico, pp. 299-301

Jose Angel A. Perez and Paulo Ricardo Pezzuto
Valuable shellfish species in the by-catch of shrimp fishery in southern Brazil: Spatial and temporal patterns, pp. 303-309

Abstracts of technical papers presented at Aquaculture 98 Las Vegas, Nevada, February 15-19, 1998, pp. 311-342

Abstracts of technical papers presented at the 18th Annual Aquaculture Seminar, Milford, Connecticut,
February 1998, pp. 343-365