CONTENTS 



Page 



Report of the Director 1 



General * 



Laboratory facilities 2 



Public relations ^ 



Foreign visitors ^ 



Foreign trainees ^ 



Laboratory activities ^ 



Publications ^ 



Manuscripts in press ^ 



Manuscripts submitted 3 



Shrimp biology program ^ 



Larval distribution and abundance 4 



Distribution and abundance, January-September 1964 5 



Overwintering ^ 



Identification and culture of shrimp larvae t> 



Rearing of larvae " 



Larval food cultures ^ 



Cultivation of shrimp in artificial ponds 7 



Ecologically associated organisms 8 



Florida Bay ecology studies 9 



Relation of variations in abundance of juvenile pink shrimp 

 emigrating from the Everglades National Park Estuary to the 



commercial catch '■'■ 



Seasonal changes in relative abundance of postlarvae of pink 



shrimp entering the Everglades Estuary 12 



Shrimp dynamics program 12 



Population studies 1^ 



Postlarval and juvenile shrimp 14 



Postlarvae 1^ 



Juvenile shrimp 1^ 



Inshore currents 1" 



Mark- recapture experiments 1" 



Population dynamics of white shrimp and brown shrimp in Ver- 

 milion Bay, La 1' 



Estuarine program 1 ' 



Ecology of western Gulf estuaries 21 



Hydrology 21 



Species diversity 23 



Relative abundance and distribution of major species 24 



Brown shrimp study 24 



Natural and altered habitats for penaeid shrimp 26 



Blue crab study 26 



Effects of engineering projects 28 



Evaluation of estuarine data 29 



Experimental biology program 30 



Behavior and ecological parasitology 30 



Metabolism of estuarine organisms 31 



Growth and survival 3Z 



Gulf oceainography program 33 



The air over the Gulf 33 



Waters entering the Gulf 36 



Extreme modifications of Gulf waters 39 



Library ^3 



