Study on the Effects of the Closure of the Brown Cedar Cut - Analysis of Populations of Sports and Commercial Fin-Fish and of Factors Which Affect These Populations in the Coastal Bays of Texas

Brown Cedar Cut, a natural pass into East Matagorda Bay, closed in March 1964. A study was immediately begun to determine the effects of this closing on the fisheries of East Matagorda Bay. White shrimp, Penaeus setiferus; brown shrimp, P. aztecus; speckled trout, Cyniscion nebulosus; redfish, Sciaenops ocellata; black drum, Pogonias cromis; souther flounder, Paralichthys lethostigmus; sheepshead, Archosargus probatocephalus; and forage species were found in the study area.