Record #:

1687

Author(s):

Hart, Kathy

Abstract:

North Carolina boasts the third largest estuarine system in the United States. The state has 2.3 million acres of estuaries, from which come ninety percent of commercial and recreational species of fish and shellfish.

Source:

Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , May/June 1994, p21, il

Subject(s):

Estuaries; Estuarine ecology