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Sargassum Study
- Investigate how juvenile sport fishes use both floating Sargassum and oceanic convergence zones as habitat.
WHY? Need for regulation/protection?
- Important as habitat for young fishes
- Important to Mississippi's sport fishes
Species collected to date:
larval bluefin tuna
larval billfish
juvenile sailfish
all life stages of dophinfish
all life stages of tripletail
juvenile greater amberjack
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