'S*;"^.; 



Figure 2.— Southern Boca Ciega Bay in 1953 before major bayfill construction (pliotograph courtesy of Airflite, St. 



Petersburg. Fla.). 



tween bayfills. In itddition, four areas of the bay 

 (A, B, C, and D) were sampled in August 196-1- 

 to estimate the bioniass of turtle grass and infauna 

 (fig.s. 10 and 11). At all sampling stations, water 

 was collected at surface and bottom for physical 

 and chemical analyses, sediment samples were 

 obtained for textural and chemical analyses, and 

 biological collections were made for Iwnthic in- 

 vertebrates, plants, and fishes. 



Measurements were made of water temperature, 

 salinity, pH, total phosphorus, dissolved oxygen, 

 secchi disc dejith, chlorophj-ll <t. and primary pro- 

 duction following methods described by Saloman, 

 Finucane, and Kelly (Iflfi-t) — see table 1. Supple- 



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mental data on water quality were used to show 

 long-term hydrological changes that have occurred 

 throughout Tampa Bay as a result of coastal de- 

 velopment (tables -^-5). The supplementary data 

 are from the following published reports and un- 

 published data of the Bureau of Commercial Fish- 

 eries Biological Laboratory, St. Petersburg Beach, 

 Fla.: Odum (1953), Hutton et al. (1956), Mar- 

 shall (1!).^6), Finucane and Dragovich (1959, 

 1966 ) . Pomeroy ( 196(1 ) , Dragovich, Finucane, and 

 Ma,v (1961), Saloman et al. (196-1), Dragovich, 

 Kelly, and Finucane (1966), Saloman and Taylor 

 (196S). May and Johnson (unpublished data on 



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