Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Dr. Alison Green; The Nature Conservancy Publication_Date: Unknown Title: Reef Fish Surveys for Fagatele Bay, American Samoa, 2007 (NODC Accession 0068717) Online_Linkage: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0068717 Description: Abstract: Fish surveys were conducted in November 2007 using visual census techniques at Fagatele Bay under the guidance of Dr. Alison Green, the Nature Conservancy. This data set was collected at Transect 2, Fagatele Bay, in collaboration with surveys of NODC Accession 0066319, which is composed of coral and benthic surveys by Dr. Douglas Fenner and Dr. Charles Birkeland. Set 0066319 includes other locations on Tutuila, though this fish set is only from Fagatele Bay, and due to conditions, was restricted to Transect 2, at depths of 3, 6, 9, 12, and 18m. Purpose: The purpose of the ongoing monitoring of coral reef communities is to document the recovery, or further decline, of coral and fish communities in Fagatele Bay, and elsewhere around Tutuila, and to determine if reef communities have changed substantially since the combined effects of A. plancioutbreaks and hurricanes that devastated American Samoa reefs in the past 30years. Supplemental_Information: NOAA Supplemental:Entry_ID: Unknown Sensor_Name: SCUBA Project_Campaign: American Samoa Coral Surveys Originating_Center: Dept. of Commerce, Am. Samoa and NOAA Storage_Medium: MS Excel, PDF Reference: None Online_size: 2,675 kbytes Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 200711 Ending_Date: 200711 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Unknown Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -170.7638 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -170.7626 North_Bounding_Coordinate: -14.3631 South_Bounding_Coordinate: -14.3657 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NCEI Geoportal Filter Theme_Keyword: CoRIS_Metadata Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: biota Theme_Keyword: 002 Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: Numeric Data Sets > Biology Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Theme Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Reef Fish Census > Belt Transect Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Fish Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: coastal data Theme_Keyword: coral reef Theme_Keyword: biological data Theme_Keyword: fish species Theme_Keyword: total and relative abundance of species Theme_Keyword: total and relative abundance of family Theme_Keyword: species richness Theme_Keyword: size of 4 main families Theme_Keyword: size of 2 main species Theme_Keyword: size structure of 4 main families Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Place_Keyword: South Pacific, Place_Keyword: American Samoa, Place_Keyword: Tutuila Island, Place_Keyword: Fagatele National Marine Sanctuary, Place_Keyword: Fagatele Bay, Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Place Thesaurus Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Tutuila Island > Fagatele Bay (14S170W0002) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > Tutuila Island > Fagatele Bay (14S170W0002) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > American Samoa > Tutuila Island (14S170W0016) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > American Samoa > Tutuila Island (14S170W0016) Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Region Place_Keyword: AmSam Stratum: Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Stratum_Keyword: benthic Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: Dataset credit required Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Dr. Alison Green Contact_Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Contact_Position: Biologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing Address: PO Box 1379 City: Townsville State_or_Province: Queensland Postal_Code: 4810 Country: Australia Contact_Voice_Telephone: (+61-7) 4729-8490 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: agreen@tnc.org Data_Set_Credit: U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Ocean Service Office of National Marine Sanctuaries American Samoa Government Department of Commerce Environment Division Native_Data_Set_Environment: MS ExcelPDF Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: see methodology Completeness_Report: quality control completed Lineage: Process_Step: Process_Description: METHODOLOGY:Reef fishes were surveyed using the same underwater visual census techniques used in previous surveys: 30 x 2m belt transects laid perpendicular to the four permanent transect lines in FBNMS. This method is described in detail by Birkeland et al. (1987, 1994). In addition to recording fish species and abundance on each transect as in all previoussurveys, fish sizes have also been recorded since 1998.Due to bad weather and limited boat access, only one of the permanent transect lines (Transect 2, depths 3, 6, 9, 12 and 18m) was surveyed by Alison Green in November 2007 (this report). The remaining permanent transect lines will be surveyed by Ben Carroll, and results of these surveys will be provided when they have been completed. Alison Green also conducted the fish surveys in 1995, 1998 and 2001, while two other observers conducted the surveys in 1985 and 1988 (Richard Wass and Steve Amesbury respectively). (Only surveys from 2007 are in this data set). Data Analysis Fish data from Fagatele Bay and the three historic fish transects (FagateleBay, Cape Larsen and Sita Bay) were summarized to determine the relative abundance and species richness at each site and each depth. Fish data from the historic transects were also converted to density estimates (no. individuals per hectare) to make the data among years more comparable (to adjust for the change in sampling area in the 2004 surveys), and to match international standards for fish survey data. Long term trends in coral and fish communities in Fagatele Bay, Pago Pago Harbour and other sites around Tutuila were compared from 1977-1985 to 2007. Fish size data in Fagatele Bay are only available for the three most recent surveys (2001, 2004 and 2007). These data will be summarised at the family level to determine the size-frequency of four important fisheries families over the last seven years once all the data have been collected: Acanthuridae (surgeon fishes), Scaridae (parrot fishes), Lujanidae (snappers) and Serranidae (groupers, see Green 2002 for further details). Size frequency of two important fisheries species will also be compared over the last seven years: Cephalopholis argus (Family Serranidae) and Ctenochaetus striatus (Family Acanthuridae). INSTRUMENT TYPES: SCUBA transect tape REFERENCES: - Birkeland, C., Randall, R., Wass, R., Smith, B., Wilkins, S. 1987. Biological resource assessment of the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary.NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS MEMD 3. 232pp.- Birkeland, C., Randall, R., Amesbury, S. 1994. Coral and reef-fish assessment of the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Report to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. 126pp.- Fenner, D., Green, A., Birkeland, C., Squair, C., and Carroll, B., 2008. Long term monitoring of Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Tutuila Island, American Samoa: results of surveys conducted in 2007/8, including are-survey of the historic Aua Transect. Prepared for NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and the American Samoa Department of Commerce, Environmental Division. 58 pp.- Green, A.L. 2002. Status of the coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites (benthic communities,fish communities, and key macroinvertebrates). A report prepared for the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, P.O. Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799. 135 pp.- Green, A., Miller, K., and C. Mundy. 2005. Long term monitoring of Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Tutuila Island, American Samoa: results of surveys conducted in 2004, including a re-survey of the historic Aua Transect. Process_Date: Unknown Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Dr. Alison Green Contact_Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Contact_Position: Biologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing Address: PO Box 1379 City: Townsville State_or_Province: Queensland Postal_Code: 4810 Country: Australia Contact_Voice_Telephone: (+61-7) 4729-8490 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: agreen@tnc.org Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: FILE FORMATS: ../data/0-data Files as received by NODC from the originator file: fagatele surveys 2007_ AG.xls format: MS Office Excel 97-2003 content: reef fish surveys 2007 by Alison Green mulitple sheets, see 1-data (below) for description of each sheet../data/1-data These files were made by NODC based on the original files in ../data/0-data. The *.pdf file was copied from NODC Accession 0066319. 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The filename is the same with the original name of the sheet appended with underscores added for spaces. file: Fagatele_Squair_Edit_Aug_06.pdf content: PDF/A format technical data reportfile: Map_Fagatele_Transect_Locations.jpg content: JPEG figure dipicting transect locations in Fagatele Bay file: fagatele_surveys_2007_AG_fbnms_raw_data.csv content: primary reef fish data fields: Year, Transect (only 2), depth (m), Family, Species, functional group, size for inclusion in functional group, minimum adult size, biomass conversion factors (a and b), size, number, comment file: fagatele_surveys_2007_AG_size_of_2_main_species.csv content: size data for 2 main speciesfields: size, sum of number for Cephalopholis argus and Ctenochaetus striatus, and grand totalfile: fagatele_surveys_2007_AG_size_of_4_main_families.csvcontent: size data for 4 main familiesfields: year, size, sum of number for Acanthuridae, Lutjanidae, Scaridae, Serranidae, and grand total file: fagatele_surveys_2007_AG_size_struc_4_families.csv content: size data for 4 main families fields: size, sum of number for Acanthuridae, Lutjanidae, Scaridae, Serranidae, and grand total file: fagatele_surveys_2007_AG_spec_rich_per_trans_and_depth.csv content: total species richness, sum of # species fields: transect, depth, total, year, family, species, total file: fagatele_surveys_2007_AG_Table1_of_raw_data.csv content: Family and species lists as found in technical data report fileds: transect, depth, family, species, number (count) file: fagatele_surveys_2007_AG_total_abund_per_trans_and_depth.csv content: abundance fields: year, transect, depth, total file: fagatele_surveys_2007_AG_total_and_rel_abund_fam.csv content: total and relative abundance by Family fields: sum of total, family, total, number file: fagatele_surveys_2007_AG_total_and_rel_abund_species.csv content: total and relative abundance by Species fields: sum of total, species, total, number Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: none Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: NOAA/NESDIS/National Oceanographic Data Center Contact_Person: Data Access Group, User Services Team Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical Address: SSMC-3 Fourth Floor Address: 1315 East West Highway City: Silver Spring State_or_Province: MD Postal_Code: 20910-3282 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-713-3277 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301-713-3302 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: NODC.services@noaa.gov Hours_of_Service: 8am-5pm, Monday through Friday Resource_Description: Downloadable Data Distribution_Liability: NOAA makes no warranty regarding these data, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. 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