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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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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) |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>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</SPAN><SPAN>‐</SPAN><SPAN>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 includes four data layers from the 2022 sampling season, including station, 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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