By Ph.D., Stephen A. Bortone
Interrelationships among Corals and Fisheries is derived from a workshop held through the Gulf of Mexico Fishery administration Council in Tampa, Florida in could 2013, the place international experts got here jointly to debate the present difficulties in handling tropical fisheries and provided feedback for destiny instructions for either researchers and environmental source managers. This ebook addresses present and rising threats as Read more...
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1983) estimated that the eastern Gulf of Mexico has between 40,000 and 50,000 km2 of reef habitat. Low winter temperatures and seasonally high turbidity in nearshore waters of the West Florida Shelf limit significant growth of reef-building corals; however, a wide variety of scleractinian corals do occur. , (Jaap et al. 1989, Colella et al. 2008, Cairns et al. 2009) and the area supports a significant diversity of fishes (101 species; Smith 1976). The Florida Middle Grounds are over 125 km from land and offer a unique highrelief region for coral settlement and growth.
