Kroger, Richard L. , and Robert L. Dryfoos. 



1972. Tagging and tag-recovery experiments with Atlantic menhaden, 

 Brevoortia tyr annus . National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 Special Scientific Report, Fisheries no. 664, 11 p. 



Juvenile and adult B. tyrannus were tagged experimentally 

 in 1965 and 1969 and tag recovery tests were conducted 

 at menhaden reduction plants at Beaufort, N.C. 



Kroger, Richard L. , and James F. Guthrie. 



1971. Incidence of crooked vertebral columns in juvenile Atlantic 

 menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus . Chesapeake Science, vol. 12, 

 no. 4, p. 276-278. 



Twelve juvenile Atlantic menhaden with crooked 

 vertebral columns were found in collections from 

 Massachusetts. About 20,000 juveniles from 19 other 

 estuaries along the coast from Massachusetts to Florida 

 were examined and none others with deformed vetebral 

 columns were found. 



Kroger, Richard L. , and James F. Guthrie. 



1972a. Effect of predators on juvenile menhaden in clear and 



turbid estuaries. National Marine Fisheries Service, Marine 

 Fisheries Review, vol. 34, nos. 11-12, p. 78-80. 



Observations of injuries and scars on young Gulf and 

 Atlantic menhaden indicate that predation is greater 

 in clear water streams than in turbid ones. 



Kroger, Richard L., and James F. Guthrie. 



1972b. Incidence of the parasitic isopod, Olencira praegustator , 



in juvenile Atlantic menhaden. Copeia, 1972, no. 2, p. 370-374, 



Frequency of occurrence of parasite in mouth and gill 

 chamber of Atlantic menhaden in 19 estuaries from 

 Massachusetts to Florida with notations on the amount 

 of gill damage. 



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