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Estuarine Living Marine Resources: Southeast Regional Distribution and Abundance (NCEI Accession 0163992)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 26, 2026 | Last Modified: 2017-07-21T00:00:00.000+00:00
This is the original (1991) Southeast regional component of NOAA's Estuarine Living Marine Resources (ELMR) Project, a national database of ecologically and economically important fishes and invertebrates in the Nation's estuaries. The distribution and relative abundance are depicted in a consistent format for 40 species of fishes and invertebrates, in 20 estuaries in coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and the east coast of Florida. Species were selected according to a set of criteria, which consider their commercial, recreational, and ecological value. For each species, five life stages are considered - adults, juveniles, larvae, spawning, and eggs - with some exceptions based on individual species life history. Each estuary is subdivided into one to three salinity zones (Tidal Fresh, Mixing, and Seawater). Relative abundance was ranked on a five-tier scale by month for each life stage of each species, in each salinity zone of each estuary. Details of the methods for the original Southeast ELMR component can be found in Nelson et al. (1991) and Nelson and Monaco (2000).

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identifier gov.noaa.nodc:0163992
issued 2017-07-05T00:00:00.000+00:00
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  "biological data",
  "Fish",
  "FISH CENSUS",
  "FISH SPECIES",
  "INVERTEBRATE SPECIES",
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  "NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science",
  "North Atlantic Ocean",
  "oceanography",
  "DOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS > National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
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  "EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY",
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  "Region > East Coast",
  "U.S. States and Territories > Florida",
  "U.S. States and Territories > Georgia",
  "U.S. States and Territories > North Carolina",
  "U.S. States and Territories > South Carolina",
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modified 2017-07-21T00:00:00.000+00:00
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temporal 1987-10-01T00:00:00+00:00/1991-09-30T00:00:00+00:00
title Estuarine Living Marine Resources: Southeast Regional Distribution and Abundance (NCEI Accession 0163992)

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