Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Center for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Publication_Date: Unpublished material Title: NOAA Point Shapefile - 100m2 Fish Density for Virgin Passage, United States Virgin Islands, Project NF-10-03-USVI, 2010, WGS84 Description: Abstract: This data contains densities of fishes detected using mobile fisheries sonar on board the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster. The data were acquired in concert with a multibeam bathymetry survey of Virgin Passage, off the coast of United States Virgin Islands in 2010. Fish densities are presented by size classes, corresponding to individual lengths inferred from the intensity of acoustic target return, in units of fish per 100 square meters. Purpose: To design and implement a mobile fisheries sonar survey in concert with multibeam echosounder hydrographic surveys to assess and map fish densities and biomass within management priority areas.2. To assess distribution of fish densities relative to management areas and habitat types. 3. To assess location and size of purported reef fish spawning aggregations. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 20100319 Beginning_Time: Unknown Ending_Date: 20100326 Ending_Time: Unknown Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -65.250371 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -65.086657 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 18.244338 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 18.178161 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NCEI Geoportal Filter Theme_Keyword: CoRIS_Metadata Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CRCP Project Theme_Keyword: Mapping fish habitat use and reef fish spawning aggregations in the US Caribbean to inform Marine Reserve management Theme_Keyword: 387 Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: Fisheries Acoustics Theme_Keyword: Hydrographic Acoustics Theme_Keyword: Fish Survey Theme_Keyword: Splitbeam Sonar Theme_Keyword: 120kHz Theme_Keyword: Simard Theme_Keyword: NOAA Theme_Keyword: Reef Theme_Keyword: Coral Theme_Keyword: ES60 Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: environment Theme_Keyword: 007 Theme_Keyword: oceans Theme_Keyword: 014 Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: Geographic Information > Biology Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Theme Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Acoustics > Acoustic Attenuation/Transmission > Bioacoustics > Fishes Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Fish Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Place_Keyword: United State Virgin Islands Place_Keyword: USVI Place_Keyword: Virgin Passage Place_Keyword: Caribbean Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Place Thesaurus Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Lesser Antilles > U. S. Virgin Islands (17N064W0000) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > U. S. Virgin Islands > U. S. Virgin Islands (17N064W0000) Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Region Place_Keyword: USVI Access_Constraints: Please cite any use of this data. Use_Constraints: Not for Navigation Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Department of Commmerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Nation Ocean Service (NOS), National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR), Applied Ecology and Restoration Research Branch Contact_Person: Chris Taylor Contact_Position: Ecologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical Address: 101 Pivers Island Road City: Beaufort State_or_Province: North Carolina Postal_Code: 28516 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 2527283595 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: chris.taylor@noaa.gov Hours_of_Service: Monday-Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm EST Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.0.1770 Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: Not applicable Completeness_Report: These data consist of fish densities in St. Johns Shelf, United States Virgin Islands. The data was collected during corresponding multibeam operations. Lineage: Process_Step: Process_Description: Acoustic data was collected aboard the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster using ES120-7C and ES38-B splitbeam transducers. The transducers was deployed via a hull mounting bracket. Kongsberg ES transceiver and Simard ES60 software was used in the data acquisition. Data was collected during all shifts of multibeam survey. Process_Date: 2010 Process_Step: Process_Description: Echoview 4 was used in this step of the data processing. The EK60 .raw file format was edited for erroneous ping returns and acoustic noise. Fish were track using a tracking algorithm and the fish tracks were export in a .csv format. Process_Date: 2010 Process_Step: Process_Description: A R script was used to calculate the density and size of fish through out the water column. Then projected in 100 square meter resolution ArcGIS shapefile. Process_Date: 2010 Process_Step: Process_Description: Arc Catalog was used to merge the daily shapefiles into one cruise shapefile. Process_Date: 2010 Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Entity Point Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 11781 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 0.000001 Longitude_Resolution: 0.000001 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal Degrees Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_WGS_1984 Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257224 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: Virgin_Passage_2010 Entity_Type_Definition: Fish Distrubution in Virgin Passage, United States Virgin Islands 2010. Fish are divided into three size classes small(<11cm), medium(11cm-29cm), and Large(>29cm). Each point represents 100 square meter interval and the fish in that interval. Entity_Type_Definition_Source: Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Attribute: Attribute_Label: FID Attribute_Definition: Unique Feature Identifier Attribute_Definition_Source: ERSI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Attribute: Attribute_Label: Shape Attribute_Definition: Geometric Shape Attribute_Definition_Source: ERSI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Defines Geometry of shape Attribute: Attribute_Label: Interval Attribute_Definition: Area of the survey divided into 100 meter square sections Attribute_Definition_Source: Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 1 Range_Domain_Maximum: 970 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Latitude Attribute_Definition: The angular distance north or south of the earth's equator, measured in degrees. Attribute_Definition_Source: Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 18.178161 Range_Domain_Maximum: 18.244338 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Longitude Attribute_Definition: The angular distance East or West from the Prime Meridian, measured in deqrees. Attribute_Definition_Source: Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: -65.086657 Range_Domain_Maximum: -65.250371 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Sm_Fish Attribute_Definition: Average Size of Small Fish <11cm in a given interval. Attribute_Definition_Source: Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0 Range_Domain_Maximum: 10.996956 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: cm Attribute: Attribute_Label: Sm_Density Attribute_Definition: Density of Small Fish(<11cm) in a given interval. Attribute_Definition_Source: Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0 Range_Domain_Maximum: 19.499727 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Md_Fish Attribute_Definition: Average Size of Medium Fish between 11cm and 29cm in a given interval Attribute_Definition_Source: Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0 Range_Domain_Maximum: 28.992504 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: cm Attribute: Attribute_Label: Md_Density Attribute_Definition: Density of Medium Size Fish(between11cm and 29cm) in a given interval Attribute_Definition_Source: Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0 Range_Domain_Maximum: 44.503576 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Lg_Fish Attribute_Definition: Average Size of Large Fish >29cm in a given interval Attribute_Definition_Source: Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0 Range_Domain_Maximum: 199.307813 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: cm Attribute: Attribute_Label: Lg_Density Attribute_Definition: Density of Large Fish >29cm in a given interval Attribute_Definition_Source: Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0 Range_Domain_Maximum: 14.31356 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Density Attribute_Definition: All fish in a given interval Attribute_Definition_Source: Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0 Range_Domain_Maximum: 22.610517 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Dist_above Attribute_Definition: The average range in meter off the seafloor of fish in a given interval. Attribute_Definition_Source: Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0 Range_Domain_Maximum: 21.883324 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Meter Attribute: Attribute_Label: Date Attribute_Definition: Average Date of the data during collection for a given interval Attribute_Definition_Source: Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 3/19/2010 Range_Domain_Maximum: 3/26/2010 Attribute: Attribute_Label: EST Attribute_Definition: Average Eastern Standard Time of the data during collection for a given interval Attribute_Definition_Source: Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR) Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 12:00 AM Range_Domain_Maximum: 11:59 PM Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Department of Commmerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Nation Ocean Service (NOS), National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR), Applied Ecology and Restoration Research Branch Contact_Person: Chris Taylor Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical Address: 101 Piver Island Road City: Beaufort State_or_Province: North Carolina Postal_Code: 28516 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 2528380833 Resource_Description: Offline Data Distribution_Liability: These data were prepared by an agency of the United States Government. 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