Gunter, G.Christmas, J.Y.Killebrew, R.Ecology2010-02-152010-02-151964http://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/20657p. 181-185.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.penaeid shrimpecological distributionpopulation dynamicssalinity gradientscatch statisticswhite shrimpPenaeus setiferusbrown shrimpPenaeus aztecusArticle