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Empirical Studies in Support of a Pink Shrimp, Farfantepenaeus duorarum, Simulation Model for Florida Bay

Entry ID: USGS_SOFIA_robblee_shrimp

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Summary

Abstract: A Tortugas/Florida Bay pink shrimp simulation model has been identified as a priority need in CERP by the South Florida Water Management District, NOAA, NPS and USGS. This model has been under development through the collaboration of a team of NMFS, USGS and University of Miami (UM) researchers since 1997. To date this project has been funded by NOAA's Coastal Oceans Program, DOI's Critical ... Ecosystem Studies Initiative and by USGS base funds. The purpose of the model is to assist in designing and refining restoration alternatives by predicting their impact on production of pink shrimp in Florida Bay and on shrimp recruitment from Florida Bay to the Tortugas fishery. A series of monitoring or empirical studies either have been completed or are ongoing. NMFS continues to monitor Tortugas pink shrimp harvest and develop the simulation model and has completed pink shrimp salinity/temperature tolerance experiments. USGS is continuing to monitor pink shrimp distribution and abundance in relation to environmental conditions and habitat in Florida Bay and to measure water flow in order to estimate postlarval transport within the Bay. With UM a critical collaborative study to identify and quantify the seasonality and magnitude of pathways of postlarval immigration to Florida Bay is continuing. Statistical studies of these and other data are ongoing relating pink shrimp to salinity, temperature and habitat in Florida Bay.

Florida Bay lies downstream of the Everglades ecosystem. Perceived deterioration of the Everglades over the last century - and Florida Bay since the mid-1980's - is generally viewed as linked to changes in freshwater flow and water quality associated with water management in South Florida. A pink shrimp simulation model is being developed to assist in designing and refining restoration alternatives by predicting their impact on production of pink shrimp in Florida Bay and on shrimp recruitment from Florida Bay to the Tortugas fishery. The pink shrimp is a good indicator of the health and productivity of the Bay. The effect of salinity and temperature on pink shrimp growth and survivorship and of habitat on juvenile density provide a basis for predicting the abundance of pink shrimp juveniles in Florida Bay and thus the magnitude of recruitment to the Tortugas fishery. A landscape model is needed to express pink shrimp performance measures as functions of spatially complex factors acting across the Bay. Florida Bay is a complex shallow water ecosystem with distinct zones of different physical and biological characteristics (Fourqurean and Robblee 1999) that differ in their potential to support pink shrimp. The influence of upstream water management on pink shrimp recruitment from Florida Bay is expected to express itself principally through changes in salinity and seagrass habitat associated with changes in freshwater inflow. Predictions of the effect of these changes on the Bay's productive capacity require consideration not only of the resulting salinity and seagrass changes but also the resulting change in the area of overlap of these factors favorable to the pink shrimp (Browder and Moore 1981; Browder 1991). Critical long-term databases exist for pink shrimp that are suitable for developing empirical relationships and baselines.

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 25.25

S: 24.75

E: -80.38

W: -81.25

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Michael B. Robblee Clinton Hittle

Dataset Title: Empirical Studies in Support of a Pink Shrimp, Farfantepenaeus duorarum, Simulation Model for Florida Bay

Dataset Release Date: Unpublished Material

Online Resource: http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/index.php?project_url=emp_studies/

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1999-10-01

Stop Date: 2004-09-30

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > FLORIDA

Science Keywords

BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > HABITAT CONVERSION/FRAGMENTATION > RECLAMATION/REVEGETATION/RESTORATION

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

ENVIRONMENT

INLAND WATERS

Project

USGS_SOFIA > South Florida Information Access

Access Constraints None

Use Constraints None

Ancillary Keywords

Monroe County

Florida Bay

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

Data Center

SOUTH FLORIDA INFORMATION ACCESS, FLORIDA INTEGRATED SCIENCE CENTER, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Data Center URL: http://sofia.usgs.gov/

Data Center Personnel
Name: HEATHER S. HENKEL Phone: 727.803.8747 ext. 3028 Fax: 727.803.2032 Email: hhenkel at usgs.gov Contact Address: USGS-FISC-St. Petersburg 600 Fourth St. South City: St. Petersburg Province or State: FL Postal Code: 33701 Country: USA

Personnel

MIKE ROBBLEE

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Phone: (305) 348-1269

Fax: (305) 348-4096

Email: mike_robblee at usgs.gov

Contact Address:

U.S. Geological Survey

FIU, University Park Campus

OE Building, Room 148

City: Miami

Province or State: FL

Postal Code: 33199

Country: USA

ALICIA ALEMAN

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Email: alicia.m.aleman at nasa.gov

Contact Address:

Goddard Space Flight Center

Code 610.2

City: Greenbelt

Province or State: MD

Postal Code: 20771

Country: USA

Publications/References

Fourqurean, J. W., Robblee, M. B., 1999, Florida Bay: a history of recent ecological changes, Estuaries, v. 22, n.2B, New York, Springer New York.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/e9r6455l267113w1/fulltext.pdf

Browder, J. A., 1985, Relationship between pink shrimp production on the Tortugas and water flow patterns in the Florida Everglades, Bulletin of Marine Science, 37, ...

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2008-12-02

Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-02-26

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