Dr. Dan Polhemus
Dr. Ivor Williams
Division of Aquatic Resources, Division of Lands and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii
Unpublished material
Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR), Division of Lands and Natural Resources
(DLNR) of the State of Hawaii Fish Surveys from 23 West Hawaii Aquarium Project
Sites during 1999-2005 (NODC Accession 0002767)
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0002767
Data are from underwater visual surveys of fish stocks at 23 sites in West
Hawaii. Survey sites are 8 to 14 m deep and are all located on reef shelves
with moderate to high Porites compressa cover, the predominant habitat type at
that depth on West Hawaii reefs, and the key habitat for the majority of
fishes harvested for the aquarium trade. The survey program began as the West
Hawaii Aquarium Project (WHAP) but since 2004 has continued as part of
DAR's Main Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Monitoring Program.
Support sustainability of ecosystem
resources
NOAASupplemental:Entry_ID: Unknown
Sensor_Name: SCUBA
Source_Name: manual
Project_Campaign: Operational DAR Function
Originating_Center: Division of Aquatic Resources,
Division of Lands and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii
Storage_Medium: MS Excel and MS Word
Online_size: 29360 kbytes
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20051116
ground condition
Unknown
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-155.8489
20.16
19.05
NCEI Geoportal FilterCoRIS_Metadata
ISO 19115 Topic Category
biota
002
environment
007
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Reef Fish Census
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Fish
CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus
Numeric Data Sets > Fish Census
None
Coastal studies
biology
coral reef
fish stock
fish species, family, taxa
count or number
size class
CoRIS Place Thesaurus
OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Lapakahi > Lapakahi (20N155W0003)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Hawaii > Lapakahi (20N155W0003)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Hawaii > Puako (19N155W0001)
OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Hawaii > Puako (19N155W0001)
OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Maui Island > Papawai (20N156W0013)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Maui > Papawai (20N156W0013)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Hawaii > Hawaii Island (19N155W0003)
OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Hawaii Island > Hawaii Island (19N155W0003)
None
Pacific Ocean
Hawaii
Big Island
Lapakahi
Kamilo Gulch
Waiakailio Bay
Puako
Anaeho'omalu Bay
Keawaiki
Ka'upulehu
Makalawena
Ho'ona / Unualoha Pt
Wawaloli Beach
Wawaloli
Kaloko-Honokohau
Papawai
S. Oneo Bay
Keauhou
Kualanui Pt
Red Hill
Keopuka
K Bay
Ke'ei
Ho'okena (Kalahiki)
Hookena (Auau)
Miloli'i/Honomalino
Manuka
CoRIS Region
MHI
None
shallow coastal waters
None
Dataset credit required
Dr. Ivor Williams
Division of Aquatic Resources, Division of Lands and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii
Marine biologist
physical
74-380 B Kealakehe Pkwy
Kailua-Kona
Hawaii
96740
USA
808-983-3727
ivor@hawaii.edu
Division of Aquatic Resources, Division of Lands and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii
MS Excel, MS Word
see lineage, process step
none
Surveys are conducted in 'rounds', each site being surveyed once per
round. 4 to 6 rounds have been conducted per year and in total 39 rounds have
been conducted.
Each survey of a site generally involves 4 divers (2 pairs), who between them
conduct (i) 'WHAP' surveys of the four 25m *4m permanently-located
transects per site; and (ii) 10-minute freeswims (presence-absence swims).
The WHAP fish protocol is based on fixed transects which can be closely
surveyed for targeted species of all size classes, and where variability among
fish populations can be related to fine-scale habitat variability among
transects and sites. Six stainless steel eyebolts have been permanently
drilled and cemented into the bottom to establish reference locations for four
permanent 25m transects at each site. For efficiency during WHAP they have
been situated in an H-shaped design at each study site. A transect width of 4m
is utilized based on previous sampling experience with coral reef fishes in
Hawai'i. The species, size class (in 5cm slots), and in some cases phase
(e.g. 'recruit') of all fishes on transects are counted by a pair of
divers in each survey. Divers first lay out transect lines between end pins,
then swim one rapid swim to count mobile and mid-water species and the a
return swim in which divers slowly and carefully swim the transect carefully
recording fishes in and around the benthos. Transect lines are taken up after
all transects have been completed.
In addition to the fixed transects at each site, a 10 minute roving
free-swim survey is done by a team of two divers after the fixed
transect surveys are completed. The divers range about the areas adjacent to
transects (~5000m2) recording the presence of fish species which were not
observed on the transects.
Unknown
Dr. Ivor Williams
Division of Aquatic Resources, Division of Lands and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii
Marine biologist
physical
74-380 B Kealakehe Pkwy
Kailua-Kona
Hawaii
96740
USA
808-983-3727
ivor@hawaii.edu
I. Original files
Directory: ../../data/original
filename comment
DAR West Hawaii Fish Surveys.xls MS Excel with 3 spreadsheets
DAR WHAP Fish Surveys Notes.doc documentation
Note:
The DAR administrator has determined that DAR will distribute all raw
WHAP-survey data which is more than 5 years old, but only summarized versions
of newer data.
The MS Excel data file contains 3 worksheets:
(1) Raw Transect Data (1999-2000)- raw data from 1999 and 2000 (all
information given broken down by transect and by observer; and including
size or age-class information);
(2) Summary Transect Data (2001-5)- summarized data from 1999 and 2000 (data
pooled by site, no information given on transect. Observer, age-phase or size
class);
(3) 10min Free-Swim Data - being all data from the 10 minute presence-absence
survey of the area surrounding the transects. Important point-- only fishes
NOT observed on transects are included in the presence-absence survey
worksheet (so need to pool free-swim and transect data to get complete
presence-absence list).
II. NODC Archive Files
Directory: ../../data/nodc
filename comment
sites.jpg
WHAPFishSurveysNotes.doc copy of original doc file
(see ../original)
WHAPFishSurveysNotes.htm redundant HTML copy
WHAPFishSurveysNotes.txt redundant ASCII text copy
WHawaiiFishSurveys.xls copy of original xls file
(see ../original); sheets
dumped as Comma Separated
Variable (CSV) files
WHawaiiFishSurveys_10MinFreeSwimData.csv 10min Free-Swim Data
WHawaiiFishSurveys_RawTransectData1999_2000.csv Raw Transect Data
(1999-2000)
WHawaiiFishSurveys_SummaryTransectData2001_2005.csv Summary Transect Data
(2001-5)
none
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20090323
Mr. Patrick C. Caldwell
NOAA/NESDIS/NODC/NCDDC
Hawaii/US Pacific Liaison
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Dept. of Oceanography
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FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
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