Description: Housed at the Marine Resources Research Institute (MRRI) of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR), SEAMAP-SA Reef Fish Survey (RFS) is part of a collaborative, region-wide reef fish sampling program that was initially started by the Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (MARMAP) program in 1972 and is now referred to as the Southeast Reef Fish Survey. As part of SERFS, SEAMAP-SA RFS conducts fishery‐independent research on the continental shelf and shelf edge between North Carolina and Florida, to determine the distributions, relative abundances, and critical habitats of economically and ecologically important fishes off the southeast United States’ Atlantic coast. Additionally, these population metrics can be related to environmental factors and exploitation activities. Data were collected in a manner that meets long-term consistency standards and includes these gear types: chevron trap, short bottom longline, long bottom longline, and CTD. Throughout the sampling range, we sample stations from a universe of confirmed hard-bottom sites (monitoring) mid-April to mid-October. This group of data layers includes station and monitoring data for the 2017 monitoring season, which includes 4 layers: stations, specimen, length frequency, and abundance.Station (Event): Includes information such as location, collection date, and abiotic factors. A sampling event is the deployment of any gear, whether it collects biotic or abiotic factors.Specimen: Includes (SPECIMEN) field with unique information for single individuals of a species (e.g. length, weight, sex, and disease disposition).Length frequency: For a SPECIE(S), it includes species-specific length frequency information related to the subsample (relative number measured) and the total (total number collected) within each COLLECTION.Abundance: For COLLECTION and SPECIE(S) includes information pertaining to the gear used and the sampling effort, including any subsampling regime as well as information related to the total catch (e.g. total abundance and total weight) for any species with available data.
Service Item Id: 9699188a1506410bb0976c7c96556862
Copyright Text: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources - Marine Resources Division (SCDNR-MRD), North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (NCDMF), and Georgia Department of Natural Resources Coastal Resources Division (GDNR-CRD)