Fish Assemblages Found In Tidal-Creek And Seagrass Habitats In The Suwannee River Estuary

• Main Authors: Tuckey, Troy D., Dehaven, Mark
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: W&M ScholarWorks 2006
• Subjects: Grouper-Snapper Complex; Florida Salt Marshes; Juvenile Fishes; Nekton Use; Species Composition; North-Carolina; Reef Fishes; Abundance; Patterns; Larval; Fisheries Science Peer-Reviewed Articles; Aquaculture and Fisheries; Suwannee River; Red drum; Sciaenops ocellatus
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/vimsarticles/564; https://scholarworks.wm.edu/context/vimsarticles/article/1565/viewcontent/tuckey.pdf

Fish assemblages were investigated in tidal-creek and seagrass habitats in the Suwannee River estuary, Florida. A total of 91,571 fish representing 43 families were collected in monthly seine samples from January 1997 to December 1999. Tidal creeks supported greater densities of fish (3.89 fish/m(2)...