Abstract

This dataset represents collections taken by demersal longline fishing gears throughout the Gulf of Mexico from 2011 until 2017. They include station location information and standardized fish catch data (numbers, weights, sex, length). Catch data were classified into five sub-regions: West Florida Shelf (WFS), North Central (NC), North West (NW), South West (SW), Yucatan Peninsula (YP) and Cuba (CUB). Catch data were also classified into four species groups: Elasmobranch (EL), Other demersal (OD), Pelagic (LP) and Snapper/Grouper (SG). Data from 2011 until 2014 are also reported in C-IMAGE I dataset R1.x135.120:0002, Lesion data from fish collected off Terrebonne Bay, LA to the Dry Tortugas, FL, 2011-2014 (DOI: 10.7266/N7GT5K56).

Comments

Data and metadata is made available by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) through a CC0 license in compliance with the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI). The original dataset landing pages may be accessed at GRIIDC’s dataset monitoring webpage.

Data users are encouraged to contact the originating investigator prior to data use and provide appropriate credit.

Purpose

Data were collected with the purpose of better understanding the resiliency of fish communities within different sub-regions of the Gulf of Mexico.

Keywords

catch data, fish population, vertical longline, disease, length, weight

UDI

R4.x267.000:0039

Date

7-6-2018 12:00 AM

Point of Contact

Schwing, Patrick
University of South Florida
College of Marine Science
140 7th Ave South
St. Petersburg , FL 33701
USA
pschwing@mail.usf.edu

Funding Source

RFP-IV

Start of Data Collection

7-7-2011

End of Data Collection

7-30-2017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7266/N7G73C4N

Rights Information

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication 1.0 License.

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