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The Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program – South Atlantic (SEAMAP-SA) is a State/Federal program for collection, management and dissemination of fishery independent data and information in the southeastern United States. The SEAMAP-SA has conducted fishery-independent research on groundfish, reef fish, and coastal pelagic fishes within the region between Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and Cape Canaveral, Florida. The overall mission of the program has been to determine distribution, relative abundance, and critical habitat of economically and ecologically important fishes of the South Atlantic Bight (SAB), and to relate these features to environmental factors and exploitation activities. Research toward fulfilling these goals has included trawl surveys (from 6-350 m depth), location and mapping of fish habitat, sampling of reefs throughout the SAB, life history and population studies of priority species, tagging studies of important species and special studies directed at specific management problems in the region. Survey work has also provided a monitoring program that has allowed the standardized sampling of fish populations over time, and subsequent development of a historical base for future comparisons of long-term trends. These trend data are used to provide indices of abundance, which are critical for use in stock assessments, and greatly enhance the assessment of abundance of many species within the region. |
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The Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program – South Atlantic (SEAMAP-SA) is a State/Federal program for collection, management and dissemination of fishery independent data and information in the southeastern United States. The SEAMAP-SA has conducted fishery-independent research on groundfish, reef fish, and coastal pelagic fishes within the region between Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and Cape Canaveral, Florida. The overall mission of the program has been to determine distribution, relative abundance, and critical habitat of economically and ecologically important fishes of the South Atlantic Bight (SAB), and to relate these features to environmental factors and exploitation activities. Research toward fulfilling these goals has included trawl surveys (from 6-350 m depth), location and mapping of fish habitat, sampling of reefs throughout the SAB, life history and population studies of priority species, tagging studies of important species and special studies directed at specific management problems in the region. Survey work has also provided a monitoring program that has allowed the standardized sampling of fish populations over time, and subsequent development of a historical base for future comparisons of long-term trends. These trend data are used to provide indices of abundance, which are critical for use in stock assessments, and greatly enhance the assessment of abundance of many species within the region. |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The Coastal Trawl Survey (CTS; previously known as the Shallow Water Trawl Survey or Coastal Survey) is conducted by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources – Marine Resources Division (SCDNR-MRD). The CTS began in 1986 and standardized activities have been in place since 1990. This survey provides long-term, fishery-independent data on seasonal abundance and biomass of finfish, elasmobranchs, decapod and stomatopod crustaceans, sea turtles, horseshoe crabs, and cephalopods that are accessible by high-rise trawls in coastal nearshore waters, specifically those between Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and Cape Canaveral, Florida. The CTS samples the full spatial range in multiple seasons each year. Historically, multi-legged cruises were conducted within three sampling seasons: Spring (April - May), Summer (July - August), and Fall (September - November). This group of data layers includes station and monitoring data for the 2019 monitoring season, which includes 4 layers: stations, specimen, length frequency, and abundance.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>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.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Specimen: Includes (SPECIMEN) field with unique information for single individuals of a species (e.g. length, weight, sex, and disease disposition).</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>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.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>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.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The preceding survey design descriptions are included to assist the data user in acquiring a thorough understanding of the survey before using data queried from the SEAMAP-SA database within the online portal. Data users are required to read the SEAMAP-SA Intellectual Property document. The data user is responsible for reading and fully comprehending every aspect of the requested data. Each requestor is solely accountable for their data analyses and/or data manipulations following download. It is also the responsibility of the data user to cite and acknowledge SEAMAP-SA and the SC Coastal Trawl Survey as the data collectors and providers. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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