A White Shrimp Mark-Recapture Study
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Vol. 103 (1) , 107-113
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1974)103<107:awsms>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Marked sub‐adult white shrimp were released in Galveston Bay in August 1963. Recoveries indicated there was no emigration from the bay between August and mid‐October. Using the Bertalanffy growth function estimates of L∞ equals 214 mm, K = 0.09 (sexes combined). Shrimp increased rapidly in size, 98 to 133 mm in 4 wk and to 146 mm in 6 wk during the warm summer months. Reliable estimates of natural and fishing mortality could not be obtained. Several techniques were used to obtain estimates but they varied to such a degree that results were questionable. Probable causes of these inaccurate estimates are nonrandom distribution of the marked population, fishing effort, or a combination of both.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: