Cooperative Gulf of Mexico estuarine inventory and study, Florida: Phase I, area description.
Date
1972
Authors
McNulty, J.K.
Lindall, W.N., Jr.
Sykes, J.E.
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Abstract
Newly developed table and maps depict the dimensions, submerged vegetation, tidal marshes, mangrove swamps, commercial oyster beds, leased oyster-rearing areas, sources of pollution, drained tidal marshes, and filled areas of Florida's west coast. Published and unpublished information on temperature, salinity, geology, artificial fishing reefs, stream discharge, human population, commercial fishing, and economic development is presented in new form.
Description
126 p.
Keywords
marshes, estuaries, resource use, land use, water use, artificial reefs, mangroves, inventories, shellfish fisheries