The feeding habits of blue runner Caranx crysos (Carangidae) were documented at offshore petroleum platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico…Meso- and macrozooplankton comprised a large proportion of adult blue runner diets at both platforms.
Eight platforms of various sizes, configurations, and depths were sampled with a pan and tilt video camera, stationary video cameras, and a remotely operated vehicle (ROV).
Hernandez, F. J. Jr., R. F. Shaw, J. S. Cope, J. G. Ditty, T. Farooqi, and M. C. Benfield
A cross-shelf transect of three oil and gas platforms in the north-central Gulf was sampled to examine the role that platforms (hard substrate habitat) may play in the early life history stages of reef-dependent and reef-associated fishes.
We sampled ichthyoplankton at artificial structures across the continental shelf (3–219-m depth) of the northern Gulf of Mexico and compared passive plankton net and light trap methodologies at three offshore petroleum platforms (shelf slope, mid-shelf
The northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) off Louisiana and Texas currently produces significant portions of the commercial and recreational harvests of red snapper Lutjanus campechanus; however, this has not always been the case.
Multivariate classification and comparison using principal component analysis and cluster analysis together with statistical analysis using onefactor ANOVA has been made on the alkylhomologue distribution (AHD) of naphthalene, dibenzothiophene and phen
We counted individuals of the family Blenniidae and estimated their sizes on gas platforms southeast of Dauphin Island, Alabama. We observed species abundance decreasing as depth increased. Fish sizes also decreased with depth.
