Effects of Coastal Pollution on Yields from Fish and Shellfish Resources

Mackerel Migrations in Coastal Waters of the Western North Atlantic

Rachael Carson, in her first book Under the Sea Wind published in 1941, wrote in almost poetic but still technically impeccable language about the annual spring migrations of Atlantic mackerel Scomber scombrus into the coastal waters of the Middle Atlantic States, and described in poignant terms the fates of billions of offspring produced during that mass movement — the many ways that death can and does come to far more than 99% of the helpless eggs and larvae in a hostile ocean environment.