Lopez-Bautista, J. M., S. Fredericq, R. L. Chapman, and D. A. Waters
In the north-western Gulf of Mexico, more than 3000 oil and gas platforms are supporting a significant community of marine organisms in an area wherein natural hard substrata are scarce.
We conducted 87 transects around 11 platforms, encompassing 32,816 m2 of habitat and we made two dives (13 transects, 5469 m2) on natural reefs in shallow (46–47 m) and somewhat deeper (145 m) waters.
There is increasing evidence that some California oil platforms form important
habitats for a number of economically important fishes. We asked to what extent
Love, M. S., M. M. Nishimoto, S. Clark, and A. S. Bull.
1) The fish assemblages found around the Summerland platforms are similar to those around other
platforms situated in the same bottom depths in the Santa Barbara Channel (i.e., Holly and Gilda);
Love, M. S., M. K. Saiki, T. W. May, and J. L. Yee.
There is concern that offshore oil platforms off Southern California may be contributing to environmental contaminants accumulated by marine fishes.To examine this possibility, 18 kelp bass (Paralabrax clathratus Girard, 1854), 80 kelp rockfis
In 1996 we surveyed the fishes living on and around seven offshore oil platforms in the Santa Barbara
Channel area. We conducted belt transects at various depths in the midwater and around the bottoms of each
