An Economic Evaluation of the Nutrient Assimilation Potential for Commercial Oyster Aquaculture in the Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay states continue to struggle to achieve the water quality goals set out in the Chesapeake Bay Agreement. While policy efforts to combat eutrophication tend to focus on reducing nutrient loads at point and nonpoint sources, waters of the Bay can be improved through an increase in th...
Main Author: | Miller, Alexander Louis |
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Other Authors: | Agricultural and Applied Economics |
Format: | Others |
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42013 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04102009-234008/ |
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