Download or read book Artificial Reefs for Texas written by Texas Engineering Experiment Station. Industrial Economics Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report discusses some of the criteria that must be considered in the development of artificial saltwater reefs for the Texas coast. Materials of past and future reefs, site locations that reduce risks and enhance usability, project financing and possible alternatives and legal institutional issues are examined"--Texas A & M University Sea Grant publication website (http://texasseagrant.org/publications/category/1974-publications/).

Download or read book The Texas Artificial Reef Program written by J. Brooke Shipley and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deployment of artificial materials in the Gulf of Mexico off Texas occurred indiscriminately in the 1950s and earlier. It was not until the mid-1970s that material was intentionally placed on the sea floor in the Gulf to enhance and create marine habitat. In 1975 and 1976, 12 obsolete WWII Liberty Ships were cleaned and intentionally reefed off Texas. This action was the forerunner to the current Texas Artificial Reef Program (ARP). While each artificial reef site can be considered unique due to physical characteristics, the main objective of the Texas Artificial Reef Program is to establish baseline fish community data at representative artificial reef sites to characteize fish communities through time using standard fish census methods. The specific objectives of this report, for the period 1993-2018 are: 1) to describe reef monitoring efforts 2) to describe fish communities at monitored artificial reefs sites.

Download or read book The Texas Artificial Reef Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Recreational Fishing Use of Artificial Reefs on the Texas Coast written by Robert B. Ditton and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Summary of Artificial Reef Construction on the Texas Coast written by Arthur Lemoine Crowe and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Artificial Reefs written by Texas Council on Marine-Related Affairs and published by . This book was released on with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Artificial Reef Construction and Natural Reef Marking in Texas Bays written by Richard L. Benefield and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Texas Artificial Reef Fishery Management Plan written by Dianne Stephan and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Artificial Reef Program written by Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department. Artificial Reef Program and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Over 50 Years of Marine Habitat Enhancement in the Gulf of Mexico written by Texas. Artificial Reef Program and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rigs to reefs written by Villere C. Reggio and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Texas Coral Reefs written by Jesse Cancelmo and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just one hundred and ten miles south of the Texas-Louisiana border, beneath the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, lie two coral reefs, together called the Flower Garden Banks. This coral community, the northernmost reef system in the United States and a national marine sanctuary, is home to hundreds of kinds of fish and other tropical sea life. Manta rays and turtles visit regularly, as do whale sharks and schools of hammerhead sharks. Other wonders include the annual mass coral spawns and a briny depression called Gollum Lake. Nearby are two other reefs. Stetson Bank, its top spotted with hard corals, mollusks, and sponges, is known for its diversity—from black sea hares to golden smooth trunkfish. At Geyer Bank, thousands of butterfly fish dominate a huge population of tropical fish whose density rivals that of the coral reefs in the South Pacific. Protruding from the flat, muddy continental shelf, these and thirty other natural reefs support an exceptional amount and variety of sea life in Texas waters. They sit amid hundreds of oil and gas platforms, which create their own special reef ecosystems. These reefs, equal in their profusion of life and color to the storied reefs of Florida and Hawaii, have not been widely known to Texans outside of a small group of scientists and divers. With extraordinary photographs and a knowledgeable first-person narrative, author Jesse Cancelmo instills an appreciation for the beauty and fragility of one of the state’s least-known natural environments. Texas Coral Reefs will inspire adventurers—both the underwater and armchair varieties—to enjoy these spectacular but little-known sites that lie so close to home.

Download or read book Texas Artificial Reef Fishery Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Application and Evaluation of an Artificial Reef Siting Model in Galveston Texas Region written by Jerri L. Evander and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Artificial Reefs fisheries Development written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vertical Reefs written by Mary Katherine Wicksten and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a clear night, the bright lights of oil platforms sparkle in the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of these platforms off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana play an important role in the lives of underwater species who find food, shelter, and permanent homes in the ecosystem created by these big, three-dimensional structures standing on the flat sea floor. They may also play lesser-known roles “above the waves” in the migration of birds and even insects. Tapping into years of diving experience, marine biologist Mary Wicksten looks at the inhabitants and visitors of these “vertical reefs”, explaining how life arrives on the platforms, what species settle and stay (like barnacles), and which ones visit then disappear (like silky sharks). She looks at how different life forms take up occupancy from the surface downward, and she shows how these communities vary on nearshore and deepwater platforms. While most people may never experience the undersea world of oil platforms, this book will bring a better understanding of it to any teacher, beachgoer, angler, diver, or coastal resident who ever wondered what was going on beneath those far-off lights.

Download or read book Annual Performance Report as Required by Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act State of Texas written by Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: