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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Hi all,<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Now, I am preparing a state of art about
"The economic importance of polychaetes".<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>I will be so grateful if anyone
could help me. Please, send me by e-mail: <a
href="mailto:selim_samia@yahoo.com"><font
color="#003399">selim_samia@yahoo.com</font></a><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Samia Selim<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Institute of Oceanography and
Fisheries,<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Kayet-Beh, El-Anfoushy, Alexandria,
Egypt.</blockquote>
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<div>Dear Samia,</div>
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<div>That is a very wide range of topics you want to cover, from worms
traded as fish-bait to commercially cultured polychaetes, from the
importance of the palolo worm as source of food to the damage done to
oysters by boring polychaetes (Polydora), from increase in fuel
consumption by a heavy cover of fouling organisms (such as serpulids)
to serpulids as competitors for food and space with economically
important oysters. The problem may be that, although many statements
on economic importance are made, to my knowledge (but of course I only
am studying Serpulidae) few hard data have been given. Unfortunately
economy is not a key word in my literature retrieval system. The only
reference I presently can think of is:</div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000">Arakawa,
K.Y., 1971.- Notes on a serious damage to cultured oyster crops in
Hiroshima caused by a unique and unprecedented outbreak of a serpulid
worm,<i> Hydroides norvegica</i> (Gunnerus) in 1969. Venus 30, 2:
75-82, 1 pl.</font></div>
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<div>Of course you are aware that<i> H. norvegicus </i> does not
occur in Japan, and that the proper name probably should be<i> H.
elegans.</i></div>
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<div>The fact that your question is not very specific may cause some
reticence in reactions from the polychaete community, maybe you should
narrow down your request.</div>
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<div>wormly,</div>
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University of Amsterdam<br>
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