Assessment of MPA boundaries and fish movements in the East End Marine Park, USVI
Acoustic telemetry will be used to track the movements of various reef fish species in the East End Marine Park (EEMP) in St. Croix, USVI. In addition, visual surveys will be used to compare to the extent practical, differences in fish communities relativ...
NCCOS Assessment: Fish tracking data from East End Marine Park in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands from 2019-11-08 to 2022-09-27 (NCEI Accession 0290601)
This dataset includes detections of fish tagged with Vemco/Innovasea acoustic transmitters in East End Marine Park (EEMP), St. Croix, US Virgin Islands from 2019 through 2022. Detection data were obtained from an array of underwater dataloggers/receivers ...
NCCOS Assessment: Fish and benthic communities in the East End Marine Park, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands from 2022-04-25 to 2022-06-18 (NCEI Accession 0290374)
This dataset includes fish count and benthic cover data collected at 138 sites during 2022 in East End Marine Park (EEMP), St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Fish were counted, identified to species, and sized along a transect (Menza et al. 2006, Pittman et ...
MPA Boundary efficacy and biotic movements in Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve
Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve is a territorial/federal MPA that is comprised of over 1000 acres of coral reef, mangrove, estuarine and terrestrial habitats. Managers at DPNR and NPS are uncertain whether the small area of...
NCCOS Assessment: MPA Boundary Efficacy and Biotic Movements in Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve: Tagging and Tracking Fish with Acoustic Telemetry in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2017-04-18 to 2019-06-24 (NCEI Accession 0280248)
This dataset includes raw acoustic telemetry detection data for fish tagged with Vemco/Innovasea acoustic transmitters in Salt River Bay, St. Croix from 2017 through 2019, along with pertinent metadata. Detection data were obtained from an array of under...
Evaluating the efficacy of two MPAs in the USVI: St. Thomas East End Reserves and St. Croix East End Marine Park
PROJECT OBJECTIVESThe objectives of this MPA efficacy project are to: (1) evaluate sample size requirements for coral target reef fish species to obtain a desired level of survey precision (e.g. 15% CV) to compare MPAs and open areas; (2) develop an optim...
St. Croix, USVI East End Marine Park mission report. A cooperative investigation between NOAAs National Ocean Service, the Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources and East End Marine Park, and The Nature Conservancy
"During this mission data were collected for both the Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring (CREM) project and a land-sea characterization of the East End Marine Park (EEMP) to determine Marine Protected Area (MPA) efficacy."
Movements of reef fish across the boundary of the Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument in Coral Bay, St. John, USVI
The Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument (VICRNM) was created to expand the protection of the marine ecosystems around St. John. Monument boundaries were not designed using ecological criteria, but were instead the result of historical land ownersh...
Assessment of MPA boundaries and fish movements in the East End Marine Park, USVI
NCCOS Assessment: Fish tracking data from East End Marine Park in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands from 2019-11-08 to 2022-09-27 (NCEI Accession 0290601)