King mackerel migration and stock assessment study in the southern Gulf of Mexico : 1988 Quarter IV (July-Septenber) report.

Abstract

This study was undertaken as part of an attempt to understand the migration and stock identity of the king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla, and the Spanish mackerel, S. maculatus, in the Gulf of Mexico. The NOAA/NMFS Southeast Fisheries Center's (SEFC) Panama City Laboratory, under the MARFIN Program, contracted with Mote Marine Laboratory (MML) to work with the MexUS-Gulf Agreement to report length/frequency distributions, catch per unit effort (CPUE) information, to obtain specimens for electrophoresis, and to tag king and Spanish mackerel at specific Mexico locations.