TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page 



Report of the Director 1 



Staff "7 



Shrimp Fishery Program 9 



Early life history of commercial and related shrimps .... 10 



Identification and description of shrimp larvae 14 



Identification of postlarval and juvenile shrimp 17 



Migrations, mortality, and growth of pink shrimp 18 



The Campeche pink shrimp population, 1956-1960 22 



Industrial Fishery Program 26 



Industrial bottom-fish fishery in the north central 



Gulf of Mexico 27 



Preliminary survey of industrial- type bottom fishes 



in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico 31 



Menhaden biology 33 



Estuarine Program 34 



Evaluation of estuarine data 35 



Effects of engineering projects 36 



Ecology of nursery areas 38 



Trinity Bay project 41 



Physiology and Pesticide Program 43 



Shrimp physiology 44 



Effects of pesticides 49 



Red Tide Program 56 



Culture and nutrition of Gymnodinium breve 58 



Chemical control 59 



Ecology of red tide 61 



Hydrology of Tampa Bay and adjacent waters 65 



Special Reports 



Sea-water systena 68 



Oyster studies 72 



Distribution of pink shrimp larvae and postlarvae 75 



Seminars and Meetings 77 



Publications 78 



Manuscripts Submitted 82 



COVER: Recirculating sea-water system on the laboratory grounds, 

 completed February 1961. 



