UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 



Stewart L. Udall, Secretary 



James K. Ciirr, Under Secretary 



Frank P. Briggs, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife 



FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, Clarence F. Pautzke, Commissio?icr 



Bureau of Commercial Fishekies, Donald L. McKernan, Director 



ECOLOGY OF THE GULF OF MEXICO COMMERCIAL 

 SPONGES AND ITS RELATION TO THE FISHERY 



by 

 John F. Storr 



Contribution No. 192 from the Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, 



University of Miami 



United States Fish and Wildlife Service 

 Special Scientific Report — Fisheries No. 466 



Washington, D.C. 

 March 1964 



