This data set of Excel files contain data from visual sampling of coral reef fish species in the National Marine Sanctuary along the Florida Keys. The dataset contains information about 5 classes of coral reefs, 216 fish species, and 6 benthic habitats. T...
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program’s reef fish visual census metadata for the U.S. Caribbean
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coral Reef Conservation Program’s (CRCP) National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) supports reef fish sampling on hard-bottom (coral) habitats from 0 to 30 m depth. In the U.S. Caribbean, t...
A quantitative assessment of the status of reef fish communities from a large-scale probability survey in southern Florida
Numerous reef fish monitoring programs worldwide produce the data necessary to describe the status and trends of coral reefs; however, quantitative description of status at ecosystem scales has been challenging. Our goal was to use southern Florida’s cora...
Investigator's annual report: Reef fish visual census in Biscayne National Park FY2013
"While Biscayne National Park (BNP) Staff may have continued to collect data in BNP as part of their internal activities, NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) personnel did not collect data from BNP during the 2013 reporting period. The NOAA Na...
Abundance of commercially important reef fish indicates different levels of over-exploitation across shelves of the U.S. Virgin Islands
The United States Virgin Islands are comprised of two separate insular platforms separated by the deep water Anegada Passage. Although managed by the same regulations, as one fishery, several physical and spatial differences exist between the two northern...
Refinement of the Southern Florida Reef Tract Benthic Habitat Map With Habitat Use Patterns of Reef Fish Species
"The benthic habitat map for the southern Florida coral reef ecosystem provides the critical infrastructure for: (i) large-scale baseline ecosystem monitoring surveys of fishes, corals, and macroinvertebrates and their habitats; (ii) ecological understand...
Comparative Use of a Caribbean Mesophotic Coral Ecosystem and Association with Fish Spawning Aggregations by Three Species of Shark
Understanding of species interactions within mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs; ~ 30–150 m) lags well behind that for shallow coral reefs. MCEs are often sites of fish spawning aggregations (FSAs) for a variety of species, including many groupers. Such re...
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) Benthic Community Assessment Survey Field Protocols for U.S. Atlantic: Florida, Flower Garden Banks, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands 2025
Methodology for NCRMP benthic community assessment in the Atlantic.
Florida Reef Fish Visual Census 1999 - Present
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program’s reef fish visual census metadata for the U.S. Caribbean