Changing SAV Communities and Impacts on Blue Crabs

Changing SAV Communities and Impacts on Blue Crabs: Potential Ecosystem and Fisheries Impacts of Climate Change

a North Carolina Sea Grant Funded Project

Project Abstract

The purpose of this project's stakeholder team is to ensure the project’s monitoring and research efforts are addressing key management and resource issues. 

Meeting Archives

January 19, 2022

• Virtual Stakeholder Meeting Notes
• Resource, Evaluation of water clarity metrics for protection of submerged aquatic vegetation in the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine System, by Nathan Hall

September 27, 2021

• Virtual Stakeholder Meeting Notes
• Resource, Coastwatch Currents: Are Warming Seas Affecting How Blue Crabs Escape Predators?

July 12, 2021

• Virtual Stakeholder Meeting Notes
• Resource: Economic Valuation of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuary

March 10, 2021

• Virtual Stakeholder Meeting notes - includes presentations
• Resources:
  • Dissertation: Effects of Land Use Change on Juvenile Fishes, Blue Crab, and Brown Shrimp Abundance in the Estuarine Nursery Habitats of North Carolina, By Gregory F. R. Meyer
  • NC DMF, Strategic Habitat Areas 
  • A framework for vulnerability assessment of coastal fisheries ecosystems to climate change—Tool for understanding resilience of fisheries - Mamauag et al. 2013
  • Dissertation: Interspecific competition and predation control euhaline oyster reef development, By Michelle Brodeur
  • Role of high and low energy seagrass beds as nursery areas for Penaeus duorarum in North Carolina - Patricia L. Murphey, Mark S. Fonseca, 1995 

December 11, 2020 -

• Virtual Stakeholder Meeting Notes - includes presentations
• Resource: SAV Draft Issue Paper - Coastal Habitat Protection Plan