CREATING AN ARTIFICIAL REEF Since the 1950s, the Sarasota Bay system has lost about 4,500 acres of hard bottom habitat due to dredge and fill activities, adversely impacting the productivity and biodiversity of Sarasota Bay’s coastal lagoon system. Hard bottom habitat provides a substrate for soft corals, filtering bivalves, and crustaceans, which in turn support a variety of life stages of game and non-game finfish as well as shellfish. Historically these hard bottom habitats supported a thriving fishing industry along Florida’s Gulf Coast and bay inlets. - Hard and soft - Document - PDFSEARCH.IO

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	CREATING AN ARTIFICIAL REEF Since the 1950s, the Sarasota Bay system has lost about 4,500 acres of hard bottom habitat due to dredge and fill activities, adversely impacting the productivity and biodiversity of Sarasota Bay’s coastal lagoon system. Hard bottom habitat provides a substrate for soft corals, filtering bivalves, and crustaceans, which in turn support a variety of life stages of game and non-game finfish as well as shellfish. Historically these hard bottom habitats supported a thriving fishing industry along Florida’s Gulf Coast and bay inlets. Add to Reading List Document Date: 2011-09-10 16:55:12 Open Document File Size: 1,45 MB Share Result on Facebook Company Mote Marine Laboratory / / Country Puerto Rico / / Currency USD / / NaturalFeature Gulf Coast / Reef Innova / Sarasota Bay / reef EPA / / Organization Environmental Protection Agency / / ProvinceOrState Florida / / Region Gulf Coast / / URL www.sarasotabay.org / / SocialTag Islands Coastal geography Artificial reef Ship disposal Reef Sarasota, Florida Sarasota Bay Coral The Reef Ball Foundation Coral reefs