Report of the National Marine Fisheries Service Gulf Coastal Fisheries Center, fiscal years 1970 and 1971.

The report covers discontinued as well as recently initiated studies at the National Marine Fisheries Service Gulf Coastal Fisheries Lab. In 1970, studies were carried out under five programs: shrimp culture, shrimp dynamics, estuarine ecology, estuarine studies, and Gulf oceanography. In 1971 studies were redirected and research was conducted on artificial propagation - shrimp and on the effects of biological, chemical, and physical environments with major emphasis on the former.