Ecology of Buzzards Bay Ecology of Buzzards Bay : an estuarine profile ecologyofbuzzard00howe Year: 1996 ECOLOGY OF BUZZARDS BAY: An Estuarine Profile Description Buzzards Bay. which separates most of Cape Cod from the mainland, is located at a strategic transition point for habitat distribution of many marine species, being proximate to and exchang- ing with three very different marine systems, the Atlantic Ocean to the south. Vineyard Sound to the east, and Cape Cod Bay to the north (Fig. ). At its northeastern end, Buzzards Bay is connected to Cape Cod Bay by the Cape Cod Canal. T
Ecology of Buzzards Bay Ecology of Buzzards Bay : an estuarine profile ecologyofbuzzard00howe Year: 1996 ECOLOGY OF BUZZARDS BAY: An Estuarine Profile Description Buzzards Bay. which separates most of Cape Cod from the mainland, is located at a strategic transition point for habitat distribution of many marine species, being proximate to and exchang- ing with three very different marine systems, the Atlantic Ocean to the south. Vineyard Sound to the east, and Cape Cod Bay to the north (Fig. ). At its northeastern end, Buzzards Bay is connected to Cape Cod Bay by the Cape Cod Canal. The construction of this canal in 1914 al- lowed ships navigating along a popular trade route from northern to mid-Atlantic and southern ports to avoid approximately 105 to 161 km of treacherous waters off of the outer coast of Cape Cod. The mouth of Buzzards Bay opens up to the continental shelf east of Rhode Island and Rhode Island Sound, providing access to some of the world's most productive offshore fishing grounds, notably George's Bank. New Bedford, the primary port on Buzzards Bay, still ranks as a major fishing center, registering the second most valuable fisheries landings in the United States in the 1980's. Buzzards Bay itself supports varied 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 Hope.' With the recovery of osprey populations st
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