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)
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NOAA Point Shapefile - 100m2 Fish Density of Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, United States, R/V Manta, Shallow Dive Cruise, 2012, WGS84
Beaufort, North Carolina, United States
NOAA's Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)
http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/
http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/projects/detail?key=44
The design of this field mission is three fold: (1) to spatially characterize the distribution, abundance and size of both reef fishes and macro invertebrates within and around the waters of the Flower Gardens National Marine Sanctuary, (2) to relate this information to in-situ data collected on associated habitat parameters and (3) to use hydroacoustics technologies for a comprehensive assessment of East and West Bank. This information collected will be used to evaluate the utility of an experimental fishing closure on one of the most pristine reefs under US jurisdiction in the tropical Western Atlantic. Data collected during this mission (pre-closure) will provide baseline information necessary to evaluate closure efficacy and assess whether the closure should become permanent.
1. 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 and outside proposed management zones.2. To assess distribution of fish densities relative to management and ecological reserve boundaries and other differences that may be associated with management zones and habitat types, particularly as fish distributions relate to movements between habitat types.3. To assess the extent of fish density distributions in comparison with ROV surveys and fish community assessments.
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-93.860248
-93.593333
27.952506
27.828368
NCEI Geoportal FilterCoRIS_Metadata
CRCP Project
Baseline assessment of fish and benthic communities of the Flower Garden Banks
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Fisheries Acoustics
Hydrographic Acoustics
Fish Survey
Splitbeam Sonar
38kHz
Simard
NOAA
Reef
Coral
ES60
ISO 19115 Topic Category
environment
007
oceans
014
CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus
Geographic Information > Biology
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Acoustics > Acoustic Attenuation/Transmission > Bioacoustics > Fishes
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Fish
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Water Column Habitat
NOS Data Explorer Topic Category
Environmental Monitoring
None
Flower Garden National Marine Sanctuary
Flower Garden Banks
East Flower Garden Banks
West Flower Garden Banks
Gulf of Mexico
CoRIS Place Thesaurus
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Gulf of Mexico > Flower Garden Banks > East Flower Garden Banks (27N093W0001)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Gulf of Mexico > Flower Garden Banks > West Flower Garden Banks (27N093W0002)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Texas > East Flower Garden Banks (27N093W0001)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Texas > West Flower Garden Banks (27N093W0002)
CoRIS Region
FGB
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Department of Commerce (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
Chris Taylor
Ecologist
mailing and physical
101 Pivers Island Road
Beaufort
North Carolina
28516
2527283595
chris.taylor@noaa.gov
Monday-Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm EST
Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.1.0.3035
Not applicable
The fish acoustic data is for the East and West Banks for the Flower Garden National Marine Sanctuary. Surveyed predefined areas of the sanctuary in a variety of habitats. The scientific echosounder was calibrated using standard calibrations techniques(FOOTE et. al. 1981). All data was scrutinized and edited for bad data returns. Applied a tracking algorithmic to detect fish in the water column. All data analyses were conducted using Echoview 5.1 software.
Acoustic data was collected aboard the R/V Manta using ES120-7C splitbeam transducer. The Kongsberg ES120-7C transducer was pole mounted aboard the R/V Manta. Kongsberg ES transceivers and Simard ES60 software was used in the data acquisition.
2012
Echoview 5.2 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.
2012
An acoustic processing script(V6.4) was used to calculate the density and size of fish through out the water column. Then projected(WGS84) in 100 square meter resolution ESRI shapefile.
2012
Arc Catalog was used to merge the daily shapefiles into one cruise shapefile. Metadata was added using arc catalog.
2012
Vector
Point
2099
0.000001
0.000001
Decimal degrees
D_WGS_1984
WGS_1984
6378137.000000
298.257223563
Shallow2012_merge
Fish Distribution in the Flower Gardens Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Fish are in 100 square meter resolution and divided into three categories: Small Fish(<11cm), Medium Fish(between 11cm to 29cm), and Large Fish(>29cm).
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
FID
Unique Feature Identifier
ERSI
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Shape
Geometric Shape
ERSI
Coordinates defining the features
Interval
Area of the survey divided into 100 meter square sections
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
1
521
MedLat
The angular distance north or south of the earth's equator, measured in degrees. The center point of the 100 meter squared intervals.
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
27.82837
27.95251
MedLon
The angular distance East or West from the Prime Meridian, measured in degrees. The center point of the 100 meter squared intervals.
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
-93.860247
-93.593455
Sm_Fish
Average Size of Small Fish <11cm in a given interval.
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
0
10.916414
Centimeter(cm)
Sm_Density
Density of Small Fish(<11cm) in a given interval.
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
0
10.080231
Md_Fish
Average Size of Medium Fish between 11cm and 29cm in a given interval
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
0
28.754294
Centimeter(cm)
Md_Density
Density of Medium Size Fish(between11cm and 29cm) in a given interval
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
0
35.061861
Lg_Fish
Average Size of Large Fish >29cm in a given interval
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
0
389.362774
Centimeter(cm)
Lg_Density
Density of Large Fish >29cm in a given interval
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
0
21.051218
Density
Total density of fish for the given interval.
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
0
58.709992
Dist_above
Average distance above the bottom of the fish within a given interval
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
0
39.643289
Meters(m)
DateLocmin
Date of the data during collection for a given interval in EST
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
2012-09-03
2012-09-07
TimeLocmin
Eastern Standard Time of the data during collection for a given interval
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
00:00:05.66
23:59:59.43
DateGMTmin
Date of the data during collection for a given interval in Greenwich Mean Time
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
2012-09-04
2012-09-07
TimeGMTmin
Greenwich Mean Time of the data during collection for a given interval
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
00:16:20.50
05:38:51.66
InputFile
The originating acoustic data file
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (CCFHR)
Name of the original data file
Department of Commerce (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
Chris Taylor
mailing and physical
101 Pivers Island Road
Beaufort
North Carolina
28516
2528380833
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Department of Commerce (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
Erik Ebert
mailing and physical
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Beaufort
North Carolina
28516
2527288751
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