CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Introduction 5 



Methods of the survey g 



Description of the natural beds: 



King's Bayou Reef 12 



Buoy Reef I3 



Cedar Point Reef I5 



Pass des Huitres I7 



Pass des Huitres Flats 18 



Dutch Gully 19 



West side of Dutch Island 20 



Big Gully 21 



Peter Billy's Gully 22 



Grants Pass 23 



Pass aux Herons 25 



Redfish Gully 27 



Black Lumps 28 



West side of Little Dauphin Island 29 



Mussel Gully 29 



Sand Reef 30 



Dauphin Island Bay 31 



Sprinkels Bay 33 



Collier Bay 34 



Off East Base signal 34 



Half-Moon Patches 35 



Heron Bay, east side 35 



Heron Bay, west side 36 



Heron Bay, northwest arm , 37 



Middle Ground, Fowl River Bay 38 



Grassy Island 38 



Goose Bayou 39 



Southwest of Van signal 40 



East side of Marsh Island 40 



Portersville, State-planted bed 41 



Portersville Bay, north end 41 



West side of Coffee Island * 42 



The beds in summary 42 



Barren bottoms 48 



Near Half-Moon Patches 49 



Heron Bay 50 



Portersville Bay (including Fowl River Bay) 50 



Mississippi Sound, south of Portersville Bay 50 



West of Coffee Island 50 



North end of Coffee Island 50 



Grand Bay 51 



South of Grand Bay 51 



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