Table 1. Estimated numbers of juvenile blue crab by habitat type and the resulting numbers of recruits to the adult stock based on habitat scenarios and pre-recruit survival. Cell refers to units of the hexagonal spatial grid overlain on the Mobile Bay system.
‡Combination of unvegetated near-shore and marsh edge in proportion to the entire Mobile Bay system (original ratio 9:1 vegetated:unvegetated) in two oligohaline and two polyhaline zones. §Losses by cell and salinity zone were distributed as 60% oligohaline, 25% polyhaline, and 15% oligohaline. The total 20% loss is for the entire Mobile Bay system. ¦Oligohaline zone. |