• Organization: Department of the Interior
• Updated: 2026-01-13T00:00:00Z

The queen conch (Aliger gigas) is a large marine gastropod that supports an economically and culturally important fishery in the Caribbean. Widespread population declines driven largely by...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The queen conch is an important cultural component and an extremely valuable coral reef fishery resource throughout the Caribbean, historically second only to the spiny lobster. Comparisons of...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

We examined queen conch populations on the northeastern coast of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, using a radial survey sampling technique with sample sites stratified by depth, habitat type, and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2014-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Marine protected areas (MPAs) can be highly effective tools for conserving habitats, populations, and sustainable fisheries. The National Park Service (NPS) is hosting a collaboration of...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-12-15T00:00:00.000+00:00

The queen conch is an important cultural component and an extremely valuable coral reef fishery resource throughout the Caribbean, historically second only to the spiny lobster. Comparisons of...

• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2022-07-13T00:00:00.000+00:00

This dataset contains shell lengths and lip thicknesses of queen conch individuals located and measured while conducting radial surveys of the conch populations on the northern shelf of St. Croix....

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2022-07-13T00:00:00.000+00:00

This dataset contains shell lengths and lip thicknesses of queen conch individuals located and measured while conducting radial surveys of the conch populations on the northern shelf of St. Croix....

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2015-11-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Worldwide coral reef ecosystems are being threatened by a range of human activities. Sedimentation, overfishing, global climate change, ship groundings, pathogens and pollution are some of the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2014-06-26T00:00:00.000+00:00

This data represents 9 geographic areas described in Title 50 CFR Part 622, Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic, Subpart S - Reef Fish Fishery of Puerto Rico and the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-12-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The Puerto Rico Coral Reef Monitoring Program data files include all raw data (by transect) for 86 stations where substrate cover by sessile-benthic categories and fish and motile megabenthic...

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• Organization: Department of the Interior
• Updated: 2023-10-27T00:00:00Z

This release provides inventories of georeferenced evidence pertaining to extreme waves on Anegada, a low Caribbean island perched south of the Puerto Rico Trench: CORAL BOULDERS AND COBBLES --...

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• Organization: Department of the Interior
• Updated: 2023-10-27T00:00:00Z

This part of the data release provides an updated georeferenced list of radiocarbon ages pertaining to evidence for a catastrophic precolonial sea flood on Anegada, a low Caribbean island perched...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2021-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) assessed coral reef communities in St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) using two benthic surveys: the Benthic...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2021-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) assessed coral reef communities in Puerto Rico using two benthic surveys: the Benthic Assessment (BA) and the Coral Demographic method. Benthic...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2023-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) assessed coral reef communities in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) in the Gulf of Mexico using two benthic surveys: the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) assessed coral reef communities in St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) using two benthic surveys: the Benthic...

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