20260318 13363000 1.0 TRUE 5000000 5000 FGDC external 95f561308e00027e040e27b5d7fdd2e6d0aa481014451f56fdf6727ec5366a29 Jainita Patel Atlantic State Fisheries Commission Arlington Virginia 22201 JPatel@ASMFC.org 703-842-0720 True Jainita Patel 20260318 Pamlico Sound 2020 2020-07-28T00:00:00 2025-09-05T00:00:00 Required citation for data usage: North Carolina Pamlico Sound Survey (SEAMAP-SA). SEAMAP-SA Online Database. Extraction type: [List extraction type(s) retrieved from online database]. Available at URL: seamap.org. (Accessed on DD/MM/YYY). Jainita Patel Atlantic State Fisheries Commission Arlington Virginia 22201 JPatel@ASMFC.org 703-842-0720 Christina Mallica Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Saint Petersburg Florida 33701 christina.mallica@myfwc.com (727) 892 - 4111 <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The primary objective of the Pamlico Sound Trawl Survey (PSS) is to produce fishery-independent indices of abundance for important recreational and commercial finfish and invertebrate species in Pamlico Sound. Current sampling occurs in Pamlico Sound and adjacent rivers and bays. All PSS sampling events are conducted over a two-week period during each sampling month. From 1991 to the present, the PSS has been conducted during the months of June and September only. This group of data layers includes station and monitoring data for the 2020 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> North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (NCDMF) 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. SEAMAP; SEAMAP-SA; fish abundance; fishery independent data; Pamlico Sound <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The data user is responsible for reading and fully comprehending every aspect of the data. Each user 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 North Carolina Pamlico Sound Trawl Survey (PSS) as the data collectors and providers. </SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> 1 -77.09016977 -75.42377330 34.84216035 35.84233374 All PSS sampling events are conducted over a two-week period during each sampling month. From 1991 to the present, the PSS has been conducted during the months of June and September only. 2020-06-01T00:00:00 2020-09-30T00:00:00 external 95f561308e00027e040e27b5d7fdd2e6d0aa481014451f56fdf6727ec5366a29 Jainita Patel Atlantic State Fisheries Commission Arlington Virginia 22201 JPatel@ASMFC.org 703-842-0720 True Jainita Patel <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size:12pt">The data user is responsible for reading and fully comprehending every aspect of the data. Each user 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 North Carolina Pamlico Sound Trawl Survey (PSS) as the data collectors and providers.</SPAN></P><DIV><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV> Data originally collected by North Carolina Pamlico Sound Trawl Survey (PSS) data collectors, in combination with Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program - South Atlantic (SEAMAP-SA). QAQC and all online-hosted mapping products created and managed by the Center for Spatial Analysis at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.