Westmeyer, M. P., C. A. Wilson III, and D. L. Nieland
From the Abstract: “We evaluated the habiat value of petroleum platforms by monitoring the fidelity of red snapper to these strucdtrues with acoustic telemetry.
The movement of 25 species of rockfishes and three incidentally-taken species was studied to provide information necessary for management of this nearshore resource.
In May 2003, 125 red snapper were captured with hook and line at several platforms in a 35 km2 portion of the South Timbalier oil and gas lease blocks, 50 km south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana.
Nowling, L. K., R. W. Gauldie, J. H. Cowan Jr., and E. De Carlo
A total of 98 Lutjanus campechanus otoliths were analyzed by ICPMS from collections made from both artificial reefs and oil and gas platforms in Alabama and Louisiana over a two-year period from 2002 to 2003.
In California, economically important nearshore reef fish inhabit the shallow (<30 m) regions of deep (50-212 m) San Pedro Shelf (SPS) petroleum platforms.
Understanding the behavior, including movement, of red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus), around and among the many oil and gas platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is crucial to the management of this important commercial and recreatio
Quantification of the movements and home ranges of highly mobile marine species is a challenging prerequisite for a more complete understanding of their ecology.
Petroleum platforms number greater than 4,200 in the Gulf of Mexico and Caranx crysos (blue runner) is one of the most abundant fish species around these platforms.
Several offshore oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel harbor large numbers of adult rockfishes, of which some species have been depleted on nearby natural reefs as a result of overfishing.
