The Commercial Fisheries in Three Southwestern

Australian Estuaries Exposed to Different Degrees

of Eutrophication

R. A. Steckis, I. C. Potter, and R. C. J. Lenanton

CONTENTS

I. Introduction

II. Descriptions of the Three Estuaries

A. Peel-Harvey Estuary

B. Swan Estuary

C. Leschenault Inlet

III. Estuarine Fisheries in Southwestern Australia

IV. Influence of Eutrophication on the Commercial Fisheries

A. Influence of Macroalgae

B. Influence of the Blue-Green Alga Nodularia spumigena

V. Conclusions

References.