Fig. 2.

Timing and duration of early life stages of the 2010 Gulf menhaden year class compared with coastal oiling and flooding of the coastal marshes east and west of the Mississippi River following the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Shading in the horizontal bars represents the gradual increase and decrease of Gulf menhaden spawning activity near the beginning and end of the spawning season and the consequences of the gradual increases and decreases of spawning on the relative magnitudes of larval advection, metamorphosis to juveniles, and schooling of 40–62 mm juveniles; or the gradual increase and disappearance of coastal oiling on the sea surface from the DWH