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Long-Term Adult Population Fluctuations And Distribution Of The Spot, Leiostomus Xanthurus, In Mississippi, Brian D. Leblanc, Deborah L. Murphy, Robin M. Overstreet, Michael J. Maceina
Long-Term Adult Population Fluctuations And Distribution Of The Spot, Leiostomus Xanthurus, In Mississippi, Brian D. Leblanc, Deborah L. Murphy, Robin M. Overstreet, Michael J. Maceina
Gulf and Caribbean Research
Adult specimens of the spot, Leiostomus xanthurus, were collected from bayou, Mississippi Sound, and barrier island locations along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi from November 1982 to July 1989. The mean total length of all spot sampled in comparable gill net sets was 219 mm (± 14 standard deviation, n=4,338). Ninety-five percent of the spot were collected in the island and sound areas, where the salinity was higher than in the bayous. Catch per unit effort was high at island and sound stations in spring and autumn, with relatively few fish caught during the winter spawning season and summer. …