Plankton and fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico

The article tells of the concentration of the major fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico, and the need for more effort to be devoted to investigation of the open Gulf, because we cannot be sure that there will be a full understanding if we only study the coastal waters. Considerable improvements in our current knowledge of standing crops and seasonal cycles of both phytoplankton and zooplankton will be necessary for the studies to become meaningful.