This book contains 14 papers, 12 of which deal with various aspects of the fishes or invertebrates that live around Gulf of Mexico oil and gas platforms.
Shaw, R. F., J. S. Cope, G. J. Holt, A. Ropke, S. R. Thorrold, J. G. Ditty, T. W. Farooqi, and J. R. Rooker
From the Abstract: “The Ichthyoplankton catch and zooplankton biomass estimates of three light-trap designs…were compared over three consecutive nights at an offshore petroleum platform in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Hernandez, F. J. Jr., R. F. Shaw, J. S. Cope, J. G. Ditty, T. Farooqi, and M. C. Benfield
The fisheries aggregation value of oil and gas platforms in the continental shelf waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is well recognized, but the assessment of early life stages associated with these structures has not been adequately addressed
While sampling ichthyoplankton associated with artificial structures across the continental shelf (3–230 m depth) of the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM), we compared passive, 60 cm diameter plankton net and light-trap methodologies at three o
The abundance of Blenniidae on platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico may be substantially underestimated. Previous studies have reported the abundance of blenny species on platforms to range between 0.6 fish and 16 fish m-2.
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
