Broward County Florida has responsibility for the resource management of coral reefs in marine waters adjacent to Broward County. The Department of Planning and Environmental Protection is assigned the duties of monitoring the health of the coral reefs. ...

This paper describes the main findings of a socio-economic survey of the small-scale commercial fleet in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The survey inquired about household demographics, fishing practices, capital investment in fishing vessels, gear and ...

The AOAT project is engaged in monitoring/modeling efforts designed to: a) establish methodologies for monitoring, assessing, and modeling the impacts of Ocean Acidification (OA) on coral reef ecosystems, b) identify critical thresholds, impacts, and tren...

"The creel survey was conducted between August 10, 2013 and July 28, 2014 to capture the full annual fishing effort. A total of 118 days were surveyed. Fishing activity was observed on 102 days (86.4%). During this survey period, a total of 618 fishing ev...

"Reef fish assemblage structure was assessed in 2006-2007 ("recent" period) in Biscayne National Park, Florida, USA , and compared with data collected from 1977 to 1981 ("historical" period) from the same location. Substantial differences were observed in...

Management of coastal and marine natural resources presents a number of challenges as a growing global population and a changing climate require us to find better strategies to conserve the resources on which our health, economy, and overall well-being de...

This dataset contains the data that were collected as part of a six volume report series on the socioeconomics of visitor use of Puerto Rico’s coral reef ecosystems. Two main surveys were conducted for reef-using visitors to Puerto Rico: the Airport Surve...

This report is a follow up effort to the Visitor Profiles for all visitors to the Florida Keys/Key West 2007-08 (Leeworthy, Loomis and Paterson 2010). The report is based on several requests for a report focused on Key West Visitors. Here summary informat...

"Identifying transport pathways and sources of reef larvae is an essential component of ecosystem science. Ocean drifters tracked by satellite around the Mariana Archipelago were used to evaluate the possible pathways of transport among islands for passiv...

During FY 2012, NMFS carried out observer programs in each region, with 974 observers and over 83,000 sea days observed in 47 1 fisheries nationwide"--Executive summary.