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Water Quality and Fish Assemblages in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.
Citation:
LEWIS, M. A., S. J. JORDAN, L. HARWELL, AND C. A. CHANCY. Water Quality and Fish Assemblages in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Presented at 139th Meeting of the American FIsheries Society, Nashville, TN, August 30 - September 03, 2009.
Impact/Purpose:
Purpose of this research was to summarize, spatially and temporally, fish structure for the Gulf of Mexico
Description:
This presentation summarizes water quality and fish assemblages determined as part of EPA's National Coastal Assessment Program during 2000-2004. Fishes were collected by a 4.9m and 6.1m trawls from 128 coastal waterbodies ranging from Rio Grande, Texas to Suwannee Sound, Florida. Fish were identified, enumerated, and compared for sites east and west of the Mississippi River, sites adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone, and to results of EPA's EMAP-Lousianian Province fish survey.