The Cage Culture of Some Marine Fishes in the Intake and Discharge Canals of a Steam-Electric Generating Station, Galveston Bay, Texas
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1972
Authors
Marcello RA
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Croaker (Micropogon undulatus), pinfisversodon rhomboides), pompano (Trachinotus carolinus), white mullet (Mugil curema), pigfish (Orthopristis chrysoptera), Gulf kingfish (Menticirrhus littoralis), silver perch (Bairdiella chrysura), spot (Leiostomus xanthurus), and black drum (Pogonias cromis) were stocked in cages in the intake canal, and croaker, pinfish, and pompano were stocked in cages in the discharge canal of the P. H. Robinson Generating Station on Galveston Bay, Texas, to determine survival, food conservation, length-weight relationship, condition, and growth. (Author)
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57 Medicine & Biology;Aquaculture;Bairdiella chrysura;Canals;Conservation;Discharge;Economic Analysis;Fisheries;Fishes;Flavor;Food;Galveston;Galveston bay;Growth;Habitability;Lagodon rhomboides;Leiostomus xanthurus;Length;Marine;Marine fishes;Mass;Menticirrhus littoralis;Micropogon undulatus;Mortality;Mugil curema;Orthopristis chrysoptera;Perch;Pogonias cromis;Sea Grant Program;Steam electric power generation;Survival;Temperature;Texas;Trachinotus carolinus;United States;Weight;Wildlife;