Report documenting statistics and information about black bass tournament fishing and monitoring the impact of tournament fishing in Texas reservoirs.

Report issued by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Coastal Fisheries Branch, which provides a description of the shrimp fleet for the fiscal year 1979. The description includes the number of vessels involved, vessel size, licensed shrimping activity and home ports.

Report documenting statistics and information about black bass tournament fishing, including effects of tournament fishing on bass population and trends in fishing quality experienced by tournament fishermen.

Report detailing the findings of 14 mark-recapture studies on penaeid shrimp along the Texas coast, with data on their movement and growth.

Report on a survey of sport fishermen, including catch estimates, hours spent fishing, harvest data, and comparisons with other years.

Report detailing the findings of studies on blue crab populations in Texas, including mean monthly catch rates, effectiveness of catching methods, and catch data.

Report on the surface areas and shoreline distances on the Texas coast, including bay areas, beaches, and system measurements.

Report documenting statistics related to the weekend sport boat fisherman finfish catch for the years, 1974 to 1981, including trip hours and species harvested.

This report provides a whole weight-headed weight and whole weight-collared weight relationship for converting dressed weight to whole weight for individual black drum.

Report on the finfish in Texas with data on their availability, harvest, abundance, and catching methods.

This report summarizes the initiation of a program that will yield long term trends in abundance and stability of shellfish in Texas waters.

This report summarizes oyster population data obtained in 1973-78 and continues the analysis of population trends in the Redfish Bar Reef Complex.

Reports documenting the use of gill nets Corpus Christi Bay and upper and lower Laguna Madre Systems from September-December 1981, determining that those nets cannot be used to exclude red drum and spotted seatrout while selectively catching other species.

Report documenting statistics related to the finfish catch of weekend sport boat fisherman in the bays and gulf waters of Texas from May 1974 to May 1982.

This report contains results of the 1982 segment of the Survey of Black Bass Tournament Fishing on Texas Reservations. The survey, initiated in 1978, was developed to monitor effects of tournament fishing on bass populations and trends in fishing quality experienced by tournament fisherman.

Report issued by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Coastal Fisheries Branch about the harvest of fishermen from three specific locations on the Texas coast, including the Galveston - Freeport, Aransas-Corpus Christi and the Lower laguna Madre area, from September 1982 to May 1983.

Report detailing the findings of a study on black drum fish found in the Gulf of Mexico. Black drum seem to have peak activity from January-April.

Report determining the fishing potential of a section of sport beach seines, comparing it favorably against the fishing potential of Galveston Bay.

The report documenting statistics related to determine the species composition, size, number, and catch per unit of the effort of economically important, finishes caught in the gulf waters off Texas.

This report determines the species composition size and relative abundance of selected sportfish in the coastal bay systems of Texas.

Report documenting information about the Texas Gulf shrimping season, including determining opening and closing dates of the 1984 shrimiping season in the Texas Territorial sea.

Report documenting statistics related to commercial fishery landings including impacts on saltwater fishing regulations, landing data of species, and any additional landing information.

Abstract: Circle hooks caught 3.3 times more fish of each species than straight-shank hooks. The proportion of each species caught on circle and straight-shank hooks was similar. Circle hooks caught smaller (younger) red drum and black drum than did straight-shank hooks. Because the circle hooks catch more red drum and back drum, the potential for mortality by hooking fish in locations other than in the lip is as great for circle hooks as it is for straight-shank hooks.

Report discussing results of a study comparing selected zooplankton population densities estimated by pooling samples - from five locations in saltwater fish culture ponds with one sample collected from a single pond location.