Of corurse they are. I spent 6 1/2 years in Kuwait and
during that time they reclaimed intertidal areas for the
costal hiway. Everywhere they pumped the offshore stuff the
intertidal species never came back while I was there. The
little places the contractors did not dump were almost the
same as before, not quite as many of each as before but OK.
I departed Kuwait in 1983, I just wonder what it looks like
now. The only person I know that has been there since is
Jenny Scarboro Cline. The shells she sent me no where come
near representing what I had. To bad, so sad. I wonder if
some of my tags are still on the Strombus decorus persicus?
Fred
 
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> From: Andrew K. Rindsberg
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> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Back to the Conservation Issue - Sanibel
> Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 10:04 AM
>
> What does beach renourishment do to littoral species such
as Donax variabilis? Are they smothered?
>
> Andrew K. Rindsberg
> Geological Survey of Alabama