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