Use of oil and gas platforms as habitat in Louisiana's artificial reef program

Gulf of Mexico Science

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-45

  Kasprzak, R A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL REEF; HABITAT CREATION; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE;

GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032322207     PISSN: 1087688X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18785/goms.1601.07     Document Type: Article

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