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Estuaries and salinity zones present: 



Central Gulf of Mexico 



14. Mississippi Sound 



15. Lake Borgne 



16. Lake Pontchartrain 



17. Breton/Chandeleur Sound 



18. Mississippi River 



1 9. Barataria Bay 



20. Terrebonne/Timbalier Bay 



21 . Atchafalaya/Vermilion Bay 



22. Calcasieu Lake 



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Western Gulf of Mexico 



23. Sabine Lake 



24. Galveston Bay 



25. Brazos River 



26. Matagorda Bay 



27. San Antonio Bay 



28. Aransas Bay 



29. Corpus Christi Bay llMsJ 



30. Laguna Madre Its] 



31 . Baffin Bay LLisJ 



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Salinity zones: 



Tidal fresh zone (0-0.5 ppt) 

 Mixing zone (0.5-25 ppt) 

 Seawater zone (>25 ppt) 

 Salinity zone not present 



Eastern Gulf of Mexico 



1 . Florida Bay 



2. Ten Thousand Islands 



3. Charlotte Harbor 



4. Caloosahatchee River 



5. Tampa Bay 



6. Suwannee River 



7. Apalachee Bay 



8. Apalachicola Bay 



9. St. Andrew Bay 



10. Choctawhatchee Bay 



1 1 . Pensacola Bay 



12. PerdidoBay 



13. Mobile Bay 



Figure 13. Location of 31 Gulf of Mexico ELMR estuaries and associated salinity zones. 



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