Analysis of Populations of Sports and Commercial Fin-fish in the Coastal Bays of Texas
Date
1966
Authors
Breuer, Joseph P.
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Publisher
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Abstract
Juvenile gamefish were sampled in all Texas bay areas in 1966 with 60 foot bag seines; adults were sampled with trammel nets and drag-seines. Production of juvenile redfish, Sciaenops ocellata, was up in Galveston Bay, San Antonio Bay and Lower Laguna Madre areas and down in Matagorda Bay area. Juvenile trout, Cynoscion nebulosus, Black drum, Pogonias cromis, and sheepshead, Archosargus probatocephalus, increased in Matagorda Bay, but decreased in Galveston Bay and the lower Laguna Madre. Declines in abundance were noted for flounder, Paralichthys lethostigma, in Galveston, Matagorda, and San Antonio Bays and in the Lower Laguna Madre.
Description
pages 81-103; available for download at the link below.
Keywords
marine fish, game fish, juveniles, seine nets, entangling nets, population dynamics, tagging, commercial species, finfish fisheries