The Commercial Bait Shrimp Fishery in Galveston Bay, Texas, 1959-87

Date

1988

Authors

Baxter KN
Furr CH
Scott E

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Abstract

The Galveston bait shrimp landings data files contain catch/effort and species composition information for bait shrimp landed in Galveston Bay, Texas. Major subsets include data from individual dealers, number of tows, number and weights by species, number of active bait dealers, types of vessels, and nets. These data include weekly data from July 1960 through December 1984, and partial data (April 15 - June 15) from 1985 to present. There is no data for 1975.

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20-28

Keywords

Fisheries, Galveston Bay, Shrimp

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