Habitat use and movement of subadult red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, within a salt marsh-estuarine system

• Main Author: Dresser, Brian Kelly
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: uga 2003
• Subjects: Red Drum; Sciaenops ocellatus; Ultrasonic Telemetry; Salt Marsh; Estuary; Essential Fish Habitat; Habitat Utilization; Fish Movement; Jennings; Red drum
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/20769; http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/dresser_brian_k_200305_ms

Ultrasonic telemetry was used to measure temporal and spatial patterns of movements in subadult red drum Sciaenops ocellatus, within a salt marsh-estuarine system. In summer and autumn 2001 and 2002, 31 individuals (30.8 cm ± 4.3 S.D. total length) were captured by hook and line, surgically implante...