{ "culture": "en-US", "name": "", "guid": "", "catalogPath": "", "snippet": "The Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program \u2013 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.", "description": "

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. <\/SPAN>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. This includes four data layers from the 2021 sampling season, including station, specimen, length frequency, and abundance.<\/SPAN><\/P>

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>

Specimen: Includes (SPECIMEN) field with unique information for single individuals of a species (e.g. length, weight, sex, and disease disposition).<\/SPAN><\/P>

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>

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>", "summary": "The Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program \u2013 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.", "title": "Pamlico Sound 2021", "tags": [ "SEAMAP", "SEAMAP-SA", "fish abundance", "fishery independent data", "Pamlico Sound" ], "type": "", "typeKeywords": [], "thumbnail": "", "url": "", "minScale": 5000000, "maxScale": 5000, "spatialReference": "", "accessInformation": "North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (NCDMF)", "licenseInfo": "

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>", "portalUrl": "" }