A Life History Review for Red Snapper in the Gulf of Mexico with an Evaluation of the Importance of Offshore Petroleum Platforms and Other Artificial Reefs

By B. J. Gallaway, S. Szedlmayer, W. Gazey. 2009

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Estuarine nursery areas provide a low-mortality environment for young bull sharks Carcharhinus leucas (2011, background): “For example, use of nursery areas or specific habitat structures is suggested to improve survival of various fish species (Beck et al. 2001, Wigington et al. 2006, Hook et al. 2007, Gallaway et al. 2009).”
Red snapper management in the Gulf of Mexico: science- or faith-based? (2011, unknown): “The availability of low-relief, natural habitat for post-settlement red snapper (ages 0 and 1) has been suggested to be limiting (Gallaway et al. 2009) because the numbers of age 0 and 1 red snapper have been poorly correlated, suggesting that densitydependent mortality is occurring sometime early…”