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.
The suggested use of decommissioned oil platforms as artificial reefs initiated a study of the abundance and residence of fish in the vicinity of the Albuskjell 2/4 Fox platform in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
