The Texas Artificial Reef Program : fish composition and monitoring efforts from 1993-2018 /
Deployment of artificial materials in the Gulf of Mexico off Texas occurred indiscriminately in the 1950s and earlier. It was not until the mid-1970s that material was intentionally placed on the sea floor in the Gulf to enhance and create marine habitat. In 1975 and 1976, 12 obsolete WWII Liberty S...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin, TX :
Texas Parks and Wildlife, Coastal Fisheries Division,
2020.
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| Series: | Management data series ;
no. 301. PWD report ; V3400-2727. |
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| Summary: | Deployment of artificial materials in the Gulf of Mexico off Texas occurred indiscriminately in the 1950s and earlier. It was not until the mid-1970s that material was intentionally placed on the sea floor in the Gulf to enhance and create marine habitat. In 1975 and 1976, 12 obsolete WWII Liberty Ships were cleaned and intentionally reefed off Texas. This action was the forerunner to the current Texas Artificial Reef Program (ARP). While each artificial reef site can be considered unique due to physical characteristics, the main objective of the Texas Artificial Reef Program is to establish baseline fish community data at representative artificial reef sites to characteize fish communities through time using standard fish census methods. The specific objectives of this report, for the period 1993-2018 are: 1) to describe reef monitoring efforts 2) to describe fish communities at monitored artificial reefs sites. |
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| Physical Description: | v, 56 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 18-23). |