Nekton from Fishery-Independent Trawl Samples in U.S. Gulf of Mexico Estuaries: A Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems (CAGES), 1973-2007 (NCEI Accession 0115183)

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The purpose of CAGES (Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems) is to compile the fishery independent data from five Gulf States into a database to more easily compare the fisheries across the US Gulf of Mexico coast. The CAGES database is intended for scientific research only. The CAGES program is designed to examine the differences between estuarine ecosystems and investigate why some are more productive than others. The program focuses on estuarine areas important to commercial fisheries and includes data on commercial finfish and invertebrate species, as well as other species commonly captured in trawl sampling. The CAGES Relational Database is a compilation of fishery-independent data contributed by natural resource agencies of the Gulf States (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida). This data set includes data from trawls as well as associated hydrographic data. Trawl data were used to calculate CPUE (catch per unit effort) at each station. These data are subdivided by state, and original data are in Microsoft Office Access (.accdb) format. Data are also provided as matching ASCII (.csv) files with standard metadata in both Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and International Standard Organization (ISO) format. An accompanying report, NOAATechnicalMemorandumNMFS-SEFSC-647.pdf, provides a study overview, methodology, and results. Data files include CPUE, hydrological, lengths, samples, species, stations, and trawls. Users are advised to review the individual metadata report for each state for specific notes on data collection, data processing details, omissions and issues.

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0115183 ANIMALS - GROUP - NUMBER IN GROUP biological data CRUSTACEANS FISH BIOMASS FISH CENSUS FISH SPECIES FISHERY SURVEY FISHERY SURVEY - PREDOMINANT BIOTA TYPE MACROFAUNA SHELLFISH SPECIES - PERCENT OCCURRENCE species abundance SPECIES COUNT PER SAMPLE SPECIES IDENTIFICATION VERTEBRATES net trawl biological composition & location derived products survey - biological trawl Alabama State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Louisiana State Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Texas State Parks and Wildlife Department, Coastal Fisheries Division SEFSC - Galveston Lab Gulf of Mexico oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC > Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > AGRICULTURAL AQUATIC SCIENCES > FISHERIES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > MOLLUSKS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH ANNELIDA ARTHROPODA Achirus lineatus Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Anchoa mitchilli Ariopsis felis Atlantic croaker Bairdiella chrysoura Bay anchovy Bay squid Bay whiff Bighead searobin Black drum Blackcheek tonguefish Blue crab Brevoortia patronus Brown shrimp CAGES CHAETOGNATHA CHORDATA CNIDARIA CPUE CTENOPHORA Callinectes sapidus Citharichthys spilopterus Coelenterata Crustacea Cynoscion arenarius Cynoscion nebulosus ECTOPROCTA Echinodermata Eucinostomus gula FFWCC FWRI Farfantepenaeus (Penaeus) aztecus Farfantepenaeus (Penaeus) duorarum Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) Fisheries-Independent Monitoring (FIM) Program Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FFWCC) Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Gulf flounder Gulf menhaden HEMICHORDATA Hog choker Lagodon rhomboides Leiostomus xanthurus Lined sole Litopenaeus (Penaeus) setiferus Lolliguncula brevis Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Marine Fisheries Division Menticirrhus americanus Micropogonias undulatus Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Mollusca Mugil cephalus NEMERTEA PLATYHELMINTHES PORIFERA Paralichthys albiguta Paralichthys lethostigma Pinfish Pink shrimp Pogonias cromis Prionotus tribulus Red drum Sand seatrout Sciaenops ocellatus Scomberomorus maculatus Silver Jenny Silver perch Southern flounder Southern kingfish Spanish mackerel Spot Spotted seatrout Striped mullet Symphurus plagiusa Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Trinectes maculatus University of Southern Mississippi Vertebrata White shrimp Xiphosura abundance air temperature brackish water species catch per unit effort coastal bay comparative assessment of gulf estuarine systems conductivity crustacean dissolved oxygen distribution estuary finfish fisheries fishery independent data freshwater species hardhead sea catfish hydrographic hydrological invertebrate nekton occurrence pH salinity saltwater species secchi depth temperature total weight trawl turbidity vertebrate water temperature NETS > NETS TRAWL OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO Alabama Apalachicola Bay Aransas Bay Arnica Bay Barataria Bay Bay Minette Creek Bayou Bernard Biloxi Bay Black Lake Blakely River Bon Secour River Breton Sound Cedar Key Cedar Lakes Chandeleur Sound Charlotte Harbor Chickasaw Creek Corpus Christi Bay Deer River Dog River East Fowl River East Matagorda Bay Eleven Mile Creek Eslava Creek Fish River Florida GIWW Galveston Bay Grand Bay Grand Lake Gulf Coast Gulf Intercoastal Waterway Gulf of Mexico Halls Mill Creek Lake Borgne Lake Calcasieu Lake Pontchartrain Little Lagoon Lost Lake - Four League Bay Louisiana Lower Laguna Madre Magnolia River Matagorda Bay Mississippi Mississippi Sound Mobile Bay Mobile River Pascagoula Perdido Bay Rabbit Creek Sabine Lake San Antonio Bay St. Louis Bay Suwannee River Suwannee Sound Tampa Bay Tensaw River Terrebonne-Timbalier Bays Texas Theodore Industrial Canal Upper Laguna Madre Vermillion-Cote Blanche Bays Water Body Weeks Bay West Fowl River Wolf Bay Wolf Creek

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title	Nekton from Fishery-Independent Trawl Samples in U.S. Gulf of Mexico Estuaries: A Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems (CAGES), 1973-2007 (NCEI Accession 0115183)

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