Review Of The 1982 Texas Closure For The Shrimp Fishery Off Texas And Louisiana

Download or read book Review of the 1982 Texas Closure for the Shrimp Fishery Off Texas and Louisiana written by Edward F. Klima and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brown shrimp production in statistical subareas 18-21 from June 1981-May 1982 amounted to 41.5 million pounds. Peak produc- tion occurred from July-Sept, which accounted for 74% (30.7 million pounds) of the total landings in that biological year. High catches and extremely good levels of relative abundance occurred off the Texas coast in July and August. The peak in CPUE of almost 21400 pounds/day occurred in July but dropped to 1,400 pounds/day in August. Production of brown shrimp from Sept-Dec amounted to 14.1 million pounds with an average CPUE of around 650 pounds/day. In the Jan-Apr period, production amounted to only a half million pounds with the CPUE falling to an average of approximately 270 pounds/day"--Summary, paragraph 1.