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Description:
Title:
Quantifying the impacts to coral and sponge habitats in the eastern Gulf of Mexico during Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program fishery-independent bottom trawl surveys
Author(s):
Hanisko, David S.
Pollack, Adam George, 1982-
Hoffmayer, Eric R.
Switzer, Theodore S.
United States, National Marine Fisheries Service
Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
Corporate Name:
United States, National Marine Fisheries Service
Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
Dates of Publication:
2018
Abstract:
The Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (SEAMAP) annually conducts two fishery-independent bottom trawl surveys that have the potential to encounter coral, sponge and other live bottom habitats in the eastern Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The summer and fall trawl surveys were established respectively in 1982 and 1987 to assess the seasonal, spatial and inter-annual variation in abundance of benthic fauna, determine population size/age structures of collected fauna and quantify associated environmental data. Under the auspices of SEAMAP, the surveys are completed through a cooperative effort by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) and the states of Texas (TX), Louisiana (LA), Mississippi (MS), Alabama (AL) and Florida (FL). Data collected during these surveys provide critical fishery-independent indices of relative abundance, estimates of bycatch and life history information for many species identified under Federal Fishery Management Plans (FMP, Table 1)"--Introduction.
Keywords:
Benthic animals
Corals
Environmental monitoring
Fisheries
Habitat
Monitoring
Sponges
Place Keywords:
Mexico, Gulf of
Gulf Coast (U.S.)
Local Corporate Name:
NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service)
SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center)
CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
Type of Resource:
Technical Memorandum
Genre:
NOAA technical memorandum NMFS-SEFSC ; 723
Note:
The Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (SEAMAP) annually conducts two fishery-independent bottom trawl surveys that have the potential to encounter coral, sponge and other live bottom habitats in the eastern Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The summer and fall trawl surveys were established respectively in 1982 and 1987 to assess the seasonal, spatial and inter-annual variation in abundance of benthic fauna, determine population size/age structures of collected fauna and quantify associated environmental data. Under the auspices of SEAMAP, the surveys are completed through a cooperative effort by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) and the states of Texas (TX), Louisiana (LA), Mississippi (MS), Alabama (AL) and Florida (FL). Data collected during these surveys provide critical fishery-independent indices of relative abundance, estimates of bycatch and life history information for many species identified under Federal Fishery Management Plans (FMP, Table 1)"--Introduction.
2018
NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service)
SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center)
CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
Library
http://doi.org/10.7289/V5/TM-SEFSC-723
Public Domain
1860
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DOI:
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