CONTENTS 



Page 



Report of the Laboratory Director 1 



Mission of Laboratory 1 



Research status and trends 1 



Training 2 



Presentations 2 



Meetings and work conferences 2 



Estuarine research program 3 



Benthic project 3 



Introduction 3 



Hydrology 3 



Sediments 3 



Mollusks 3 



Echinoderms and polychaetes 7 



Southern quahog 7 



Lug worm 7 



Squid , 8 



Sea grass 8 



Dredge -fill 10 



Biogeochemical alteration and effect project 10 



Faunal production project 1 1 



Pompano aquaculture II 



Pompano ecology 14 



Gulf of Mexico estuarine inventory project 15 



Area description 15 



Biology 16 



Biology of industrial schoolfishes program 18 



Development of the fishery 18 



Program goals 20 



Facilities and procedures 21 



Progress during the year 21 



Red-tide program 22 



Toxin research 22 



Encystment stage of Gymnodinium breve , ZZ 



Plankton ecology project 22 



Publications 25 



Manuscripts in press 25 



