Excerpt from Report of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida: Fiscal Year 1968 The estuarine research program has five Sediments projects: bay bottom ecology, plankton ecology, production of marine animals, effects of estu arine alteration, and an inventory of Gulf of Mexico estuaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.