Oyster Mortality Studies along the Texas Coast during 1966

Date

1966

Authors

Hofstetter, Robert P.

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Publisher

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

Abstract

Mortality studies among groups of seed and market oysters (Crassostrea virginica) were conducted in Aransas, San Antonio, Matagorda, and Galveston Bays. In general, death rates were low in winter, increased in spring, dropped in early summer and rose to late summer or early fall peaks.

Description

pages 55-68; available for download at the link below.

Keywords

oysters, Crassostrea virginica, mortality, Dermocystidium marinum, fungal diseases, diseases, predation, southern oyster drill, thais haemostoma

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