. Ecology of Buzzards Bay : an estuarine profile . Fig. Satellite photograph of Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod fish populations, both resident and migratory, with over 200 recorded species and productive coastal fisheries. In fact, even the name "Buzzards Bay" indirectly reflects the fisheries resource, as it was ostensibly named after the osprey or fish-hawk (Parulion haliaetus) (Strother 1860; Kimball 1892). Feeding exclusively on fish, the osprey was known in early natural history as the buzzardet (little buzzard) and was common around the bay (in fact, even noted in Gosnolds voya
. Ecology of Buzzards Bay : an estuarine profile . Fig. Satellite photograph of Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod fish populations, both resident and migratory, with over 200 recorded species and productive coastal fisheries. In fact, even the name "Buzzards Bay" indirectly reflects the fisheries resource, as it was ostensibly named after the osprey or fish-hawk (Parulion haliaetus) (Strother 1860; Kimball 1892). Feeding exclusively on fish, the osprey was known in early natural history as the buzzardet (little buzzard) and was common around the bay (in fact, even noted in Gosnolds voyage). Whether due to the buzzardet or simply the misidentification of osprey as buzzards, the name Buzzards Bay has supplanted the original "Gosnolds ; With the recovery of osprey populations stimulated by the banning of dichlorodiphenyltrichlo- roethane (DDT) and the expansion of safe nesting platforms (most notably along the Westport River and Martha's Vineyard; Poole 1989), Buzzards Bay may again warrant the name. The long axis of the bay runs northeast to south- west encompassed primarily by the Massachusetts mainland to the west. Cape Cod to the east and northeast, and the Elizabeth Islands (Cuttyhunk, Nashawena, Pasque, Penekise and Naushon) to the southeast. The bay is approximately 45 km long and 12 km wide. The bay was formed as a result of the last ice age and the retreat of the glaciers (about 16, years before present (); Kaye 1964; Oldale 1992), and the geologic processes generated lasting differences in the contours of the western versus the eastern shores. The northwest- em and northern shores of Buzzards Bay are physi- cally more irregular, creating more embayments than on the eastern and southeastern shores. This undu- lating coastline encompasses about 336 km after taking into account all the irregularities (Massachu- setts Department of Environmental Quality Engi- neering 1975). The northwestern shore has elon- gated inlets formed fr
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