CAGES_Texas_CPUE_Trawl_study_OBIS_Event_1996

Estuaries are important in supporting much of the fishery production in the Gulf of Mexico, but this support appears to vary widely among different estuarine systems. The main objective of this project was to assess variability among estuaries in supporting fishery species and other abundant nekton. The project is part of a larger effort of the National Marine Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory to develop a Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems (CAGES). The nekton abundance data summarized in this report are available at https://data.gcoos.org. This cooperative study with state natural resources agencies was designed to use fishery independent monitoring data and compare historical catches from 4.9-m and 6.1-m trawl surveys. This report provides an assessment of the abundance, length frequencies, and biomass of 14 species of fish and four species of decapod crustaceans that were either abundant in the samples or economically important. The most abundant species in the analysis include bay anchovy, Atlantic croaker, spot, and brown shrimp. Other fishery species of particular interest include Gulf menhaden, white shrimp, pink shrimp, blue crab, spotted seatrout, southern flounder, and red drum. While the years analyzed varied among states, samples from most estuaries were available and analyzed for the years 1986 to 2005. The 24 estuaries analyzed were identified using the Estuarine and Coastal Drainage Areas delineated by the U. S.Geological Survey and listed in NOAAs Coastal Assessment Framework

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Metadata Date

2023-05-24

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Distributor Harmon Brown, Thomas J Minello, Ralf Riedel
Point of Contact Harmon Brown, Thomas J Minello, Ralf Riedel
harmon.brown@noaa.gov, , ralf.riedel@usm.edu
Background Information (Background information from the source)
Originator Harmon Brown, Thomas J Minello, Ralf Riedel
harmon.brown@noaa.gov, , ralf.riedel@usm.edu
Background Information (Background information from the source)
contributor Jim Ditty
jim.ditty@noaa.gov
Dataset Point of Contact Felimon Gayanilo
GCOOS
+1 361-825-3454
data@gcoos.org
General Documentation
Associated Documentation Nekton from fishery-independent trawl samples in estuaries of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico: a Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems (CAGES).
Date(s) creation: 2021-12-13
issued: 2021-12-13
creation: 2021-12-13
issued: 2021-12-13
creation: 2021-12-13
issued: 2021-12-13
creation: 2021-12-13
issued: 2021-12-13
Use Limitations https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Time Period 1996-01-03T12:00:00Z to 1996-12-30T12:00:00Z
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates N: 29.975° S: 26.075° E: -93.75833° W: -97.691666°
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  • biology
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  • comparative
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  • fisheries
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  • geodetic
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  • number
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  • origen
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  • ownerInstitutionCode
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  • science
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  • start
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  • station
  • systems
  • texas
  • trajectory
  • trawl
  • trawl surveys
  • type
  • US
  • value
  • water
  • waterBody

CF Standard Name Table v72
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  • eventdate
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  • unknown
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  • unknown
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Project keywords Uncategorized
  • Nekton from fishery-independent trawl samples in estuaries of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico: a Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems (CAGES).
Use Constraints https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Lineage Statement 2021-12-13T10:14:29Z
Platforms
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platform_vocabulary https://mmisw.org/ont/ioos/platform
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Attribution Information
contributor_email jim.ditty@noaa.gov
contributor_name Jim Ditty
contributor_url unknown
creator_address 4700 Avenue U
creator_city Galveston
creator_country USA
creator_phone , ,+1-228-818-8804
creator_sector academic
creator_state Texas
creator_postalcode 77551
creator_url unknown
publisher_address 3146 TAMU, Eller O&M Building
publisher_city College Station
publisher_country USA
publisher_phone +1-979-458-3274
publisher_state Texas
publisher_postalcode 77843
infoUrl https://gcoos4.tamu.edu/erddap/info/index.html?page=1&itemsPerPage=1000
CF related
standard_name_vocabulary CF Standard Name Table v72