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Trees in the Fish Bay Flat Land by Gail.Karlsson, E. Gibney, Brian Oldfield, and E. Oldfield.Afield guide to the trees of the Fish Bay watershed. [Note that this is a 4.77 megabyte file. Alternatively, you can download this 3.56 megabyte .PDF (Adobe Acrobat) version at http://www.irf.org/mission/protection/IRF TREES report.pdf, but with less flexible copying.

Sandy Cay, British Virgin Islands - Field Trip Slide Show, February 2004 [ppt]

Manual para el Monitoreo de Arrecifes de Coral en el Caribe y el Atlántico Occidental [PDF] This is the Spanish-language version of the US National Park Service standard procedure for monitoring coral reefs. Copies may also be ordered at cost from Island Resources Foundation's Publications Office, by calling 202/265-9712.

  Fish Bay Resources
  Fish Bay Association Map
  Poster of Fish Bay Sediment Issues by Carlos Ramos (5 mb), 2007
  Fish Bay Native Plant Garden Manual (Fish Bay Association 2008)
  Archeological Reconnaissance of Fish Bay by Dave Davis, 2003.
  Endangered Plants of Fish Bay (Bacle & Lindsay, 2006)
 

TREES IN THE FISH BAY FLAT LAND. Field Guide and report on a volunteer community-awareness project by Gail Karlsson, Eleanor Gibney, Brian Oldfield and Edward Oldfield in collaboration with Island Resources Foundation.

  Fish Bay Property Map by (TNC, 1986 et seq.)
  "Historic Land Use in Reef Bay, Fish Bay, and Hawksnest Watersheds," by George Tyson, in VIRMC Report #19, 1987.
  "Sedimentation and Reef Development in Hawksnest, Fish, and Reef Bays," by Dennis Hubbard et al, in VIRMC Report #21, 1987.
  Fish Bay Watershed Assessment: Recommendations for a Road Erosion Control Program, by Carlos Ramos, 2007.
  MEASURING AND PREDICTING EROSION AND SEDIMENT YIELDS ON ST. JOHN, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS, Dissertation submitted by Carlos E. Ramos-Scharron, to the Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Spring 2004. This five-megabyte zipped file contains both the dissertation document, and the Arc Info GIS system developed by Dr. Ramos-Scharron to predict erosion and sediment yields in Fish Bay, St. John and other watersheds on St. John.
 

Fish Bay Photos, including Aerials and Satellite Images

  Fish_Bay_SatFoto_1971_NOAA
  Fish_Bay_SatFoto_1983_NOAA
  Fish_Bay_SatFoto_1999_NOAA
  Fish_Bay_SatFoto_2011_Google
  Fish Bay Overview Photo (small)