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Brown Shrimp Population Dynamics

  • Important commercial fishery
    • MS Landings = 9.7 million pounds in 1997
  • Collaborative effort with Department of Marine Resources (DMR)
  • Study Part 2: Young juvenile and sub-adult brown shrimp
    • 30 trawl stations along entire Mississippi coast
    • Data to be used in developing Geographic Information System (GIS) model of brown shrimp distribution in MS Sound

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