Abstract
Attention to the role of sea floor habitat in the dynamics of fish populations has increased recently in both the management and scientific communities around the globe. For example, the U.S. Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996 (the reauthorized Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act) requires that the federal Fishery Management Councils identify essential fish habitat (EFH) for all the fish and shellfish species for which fishery management plans are enacted (50 CFR 600 et seq.). The effective designation and ultimate conservation and protection EFH requires data on fish population dynamics and the ecological influences of habitat on those dynamics for each life-history stage.
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