TABLE OF CONTENTS

Vol. 16, No. 1, June, 1998

Survival and Movement Patterns if Released Tarpon (Megalops atlanticus). By Randy E. Edwards................1

First Record of Reversed Symmetry in Etropus cyclosquamus and Second Record in Citharichthys spilopterus (Bothidae, Pisces) in the Gulf of Mexico, with a Plausible Genetic Explanation of Reversal. By Ramon Ruiz-Carus and Steve J. Rider....................................................................................................8

Spatial and Temporal Variations in the Species Composition of By catch Collected During a Striped Mullet (Mugil cephalus) Survey. By Daryl J. Pierce, Julie E. Wallin, and  Behzad Mahmoudi................................15
 

Short Papers and Notes

First Report Of Carybdea alata Var. grandis (Reynaudd 1830) (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) from the gulf of Mexico. By William M. Graham.............................................................................................................................28
 

Dedicated Section

Technology and Management of Artificial Reefs: an Update Foreword. By Charles A. Wilson.....................31

Evolution of Marine Artificial Reef Development-----A  Philosophical Review of Management Strategies. By Richard Christian, Frank Steimle, and Richard Stone.............................................................................32

Use of Oil and Gas Platforms as Habitat in Louisiana's Artificial Reef Program. By R. A. Kasprzak............37

Development of Tagging Techniques for Monitoring Fish Populations  at Texas Artificial Reefs. By Jan C. Culbertson and Douglas D. Peter.........................................................................................................46

Preliminary Evaluation of the Use of Phosphogypsum for Reef Substrate in the Gulf of Mexico.  By David L. Nieland, Charles A. Wilson and John W. Fleeger...................................................................................54

An Experimental Reef Program to Test Designs of an Artificial Reef for Kelp Mitigation. By Larry Deysher, Thomas A. Dean, Robert Grove, and Andy Jahn....................................................................................64

Spatial Variation in Fish Density at Three Petroleum Platforms as Measured with Dual- Beam Hydroacoustics.
By David R. Stanley and Charles A. Wilson...........................................................................................73

Otolith Microchemical Fingerprints of Age-0 Red Snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, from the Northern Gulf of Mexico. By William F. Patterson III, James H. Cowan, Jr., Elizabeth Y. Graham, and W. Berry Lyons.......83

Movement of Red Snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, in the North Central Gulf of Mexico: Potential Effects of Hurricanes. By J. Carter Watterson, William F. Patterson III, Robert L. Shipp, and James H. Cowan, Jr.,
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Commentary

Alabama's Artificial Reef Program: Building Oases in the Desert. By R. Vernon Minton and Stevens R. Heath ........................................................................................................................................................105

Is the Gulf Of Mexico Ready for Deep - Oceans Environmental Regulation? By Robert S. Carney..............................................................................................................................................106
 

Abstracts

Abstracts of Contributed Papers Presented at the 1998 North American Echinoderms Meeting................109

Foreword, Proceedings of North American Echinoderms Meeting...........................................................111

A History of Meetings on Echinodermata in North American. By J .M. Lawrence.....................................112

Abstracts..........................................................................................................................................115
 

Acknowledgments