Some relations of salinity to population distributions of motile estuarine organisms, with special reference to penaeid shrimp.

The kinds of shrimp species in coastal waters changes with wet and dry years and also with wet and dry seasons as salinities rise or fall. Commercial catch statistics show that the greatest amount of white shrimp are produced in the low salinity waters of Louisiana, the greatest amount of brown shrimp in the saltier bays of Texas, and the greatest amount of pink around the south Florida islands where the salinities are oceanic.