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Hydrobiological Journal

ISSN for PRINT: 0018-8166

Institutional price:	$1994.00
Issues per year:	6

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2003, Volume39

120 pages

DOI: 10.1615/HydrobJ.v39.i4

Influence of Anthropic Silting of Bottom Sediments on the Commercial Settlements of Mussels on the Bank "Tetis-2" (Karkinitskiy Bay of the Black Sea)

A. S. Terentyev
Southern Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fishery and Oceanography, Kerch, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

In the second part of the 1980s, the mussel bank "Tetis-2" was subjected to intensive anthropic silting as a result of which the numbers and biomass of mussels, and also the area of their distribution, essentially decreased. At the thickness of silt of 3 cm, the biocenosis of mussels gave way to the biocenosis of Melinna palmata (Grube) (Polychaeta). The capability of mussels for production and filtration decreased. As a consequence, the process of aging of mussel population was observed.