The Gulf of Mexico Large Marine Ecosystems: Assessment, Sustainability and Management

Out of Print

Series: Large Marine Ecosystems Series Volume: 9

Edited By: K Sherman, H Kumpf and K Steidinger

688 pages, 196 illus

Wiley-Blackwell

About this book

Describes the fish and fisheries resources, recreational facilities, offshore oil production, and the wide variety of fish, bird, and mammmal species. Reviews such problems as the increase in harmful algal blooms, oxygen depletion events, pollution hot-spots and loss of wetlands.