Diel Fluctuations in Catch of Postlarval Brown Shrimp, Penaeus Aztecus Ives, with the Renfro Beam Trawl
From June 7 through June 11, 1965, two semicircular tows of 100-ft radius (one clockwise and one counterclockwise) were made with the Renfro beam trawl every 2 hours, over a 96-hour period. The sampling site was a tidal flat adjacent to the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico at Cheniere
la Croix, Louisiana. Of the 11,064 postlarval shrimp collected during the sampling, 2088 were identified to species: 1787 (86 per cent) as brown shrimp, Penaeus aztecus Ives; 301 (14 per cent) as white shrimp, P. setiferus (Linnaeus). The individual sample catches (especially
the larger ones) were dominated by brown shrimp. Six major peak catches of postlarvae per tow were observed during the 96-hour period. Four of these occurred on June 7 and June 9: one on each afternoon (at 1400) and another each day about 1 hour after dark (at 2000). These four catches were
made when the semidiurnal tide was relatively high. The afternoon peaks were associated with increasing temperature of the water, whereas the peaks after dark occurred as water temperature was decreasing. The remaining two major peaks, observed in daytime after severe squalls, were associated
with decreases in water temperature. There was no significant difference between frequency distributions of day and night catches of post-larvae.
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 September 1970
- The Bulletin of Marine Science is dedicated to the dissemination of high quality research from the world's oceans. All aspects of marine science are treated by the Bulletin of Marine Science, including papers in marine biology, biological oceanography, fisheries, marine affairs, applied marine physics, marine geology and geophysics, marine and atmospheric chemistry, and meteorology and physical oceanography.
- Editorial Board
- Information for Authors
- Subscribe to this Title
- Terms & Conditions
- Ingenta Connect is not responsible for the content or availability of external websites
- Access Key
- Free content
- Partial Free content
- New content
- Open access content
- Partial Open access content
- Subscribed content
- Partial Subscribed content
- Free trial content