GRANT
NUMBER:
NA57FD0131
NMFS NUMBER:
93-SER-017
REPORT
TITLE:
Assessment of Composition and Magnitude of Bycatch Associated
with the Commercial Shrimp Trawling Industry on the Northern
and Mid-Texas Coast during the 1995 Spring and Fall Texas
Commercial Bay Shrimp Open Seasons
AUTHOR:
Fuls, Billy
PUBLISH
DATE:
August 30, 1996
AVAILABLE
FROM:
National
Marine Fisheries Service, 9721 Executive Center Drive,
North St. Petersburg, FL 33702. PHONE: (813) 570-5324
ABSTRACT
The project
had four major goals and objectives: (1) to determine
percent composition by weight and number of target species
(shrimp) and all non-target species caught in commercial
shrimp trawls within bays on the northern and mid-Texas
coast, (2) to determine the catch rate and mean size of
target and non-target species, (3) to compare average
percent composition of commercial bay trawl species to
species composition in the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's
(TPWD) fishery independent bay trawl surveys, and (4)
to compare 1995 bycatch composition and magnitude on the
northern and mid-Texas coast during the 1995 spring and
fall shrimping seasons to preliminary single-year bycatch
data collected during 1992 in Galveston Bay and during
1993 in Corpus Christi Bay.
