CRED Towed-Diver Fish Biomass Surveys in the Pacific Ocean 2000-2010

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Island Fisheries Sciences Center, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service

Publication_Date: 2011

Title: CRED Towed-Diver Fish Biomass Surveys in the Pacific Ocean 2000-2010

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Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: database

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Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Honolulu, HI.

Publisher: Coral Reef Ecosystem Division

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Retrieve from http://www.usgs.gov/obis-usa

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Description:

Abstract:

Abstract written by OBIS-USA using excerpts from CRED Homepage Quantitative assessment and monitoring of shallow reef fish assemblages is conducted around the US Pacific Islands as an integral part of the NOAA/NMFS/PIFSC Coral Reef Ecosystem Division's mission to improve our scientific understanding of these fish resources and related ecosystems. As fish are the primary sustainable living resource on Pacific coral reefs, results contribute to the scientific basis essential for sound management. Related objectives include: creating a fish baseline to measure marine protected area (MPA) effectiveness; monitoring size-frequency of fish assemblages; assessing the status of target, indicator or keystone species; assessing responses by fish communities to possible ecosystem impacts (e.g., fishing, ecotourism, pollution, habitat damage, sedimentation, hurricanes); and assessing species composition and diversity, by area, and the effectiveness of long-term monitoring of managed areas. Several complementary, noninvasive underwater-surveys are used to enumerate the diverse components of diurnally active shallow-water reef fish assemblages. Survey types include: (1) Rapid Ecological Assessments (REA) to document simple species presence at a station or reef/bank (2) Belt Transects (BLT) mainly to quantify relatively small-bodied and abundant fishes (3) Stationary Point Counts (SPC) to quantify relatively larger (>25 cm total length) and more vagile fish species (4) Towed-Diver Video Surveys (TDVS) to quantify relatively large-bodied (>50 cm total length), wide-ranging fishes over a broad-spatial scale Each method is replicated at sites within and/or among the various habitat types present around each island or bank. Fish length-class is estimated for all quantified fish to provide an estimate of numerical size structure and biomass densities by taxa. The mission of the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division is to provide sound science to enable informed and effective implementation of ecosystem-based management and conservation strategies for coral reef ecosystems of the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands Region. To accomplish this mission, the Division leads an integrated, interdisciplinary program of ecosystem assessment and long-term monitoring, benthic habitat mapping, and applied research on the coral reef ecosystems of 50 primary islands and atolls in the Hawaiian Archipelago, the Mariana Archipelago (Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands), American Samoa, and the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIA). The Division's work supports NOAA and other agencies in meeting mandates of the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 and various executive orders issued to ensure conservation and protection of the nation's coral reef ecosystems. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: Record Count 25839, Taxa Count 148 CURRENTNESS REFERENCE: ground condition

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Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20000909

Ending_Date: 20101104

Currentness_Reference:Unknown

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Description_of_Geographic_Extent:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: 166.61

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -178.33

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 28.43

South_Bounding_Coordinate: -14.88

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Theme:

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Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: DATA SET LANGUAGE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > CORAL REEFS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH > RAY-FINNED FISHES

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH > RAY-FINNED FISHES > PERCH-LIKE FISHES

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH > SHARKS/RAYS/CHIMAERAS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH

Theme_Keyword: OBIS > OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM

Theme_Keyword: COML > CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE

Theme_Keyword: Coral Reef Ecosystem Division

Theme_Keyword: Cred

Theme_Keyword: Towed Diver Survey

Theme_Keyword: Main Hawaiian Islands

Theme_Keyword: Mariana Islands

Theme_Keyword: Northwest Hawaiian Islands

Theme_Keyword: Pacific Remote Island Area

Theme_Keyword: Animalia

Theme_Keyword: Chordata

Theme_Keyword: Actinopterygii

Theme_Keyword: Chondrichthyes

Theme_Keyword: Perciformes

Theme_Keyword: Carcharhiniformes

Theme_Keyword: Syngnathiformes

Theme_Keyword: Tetraodontiformes

Theme_Keyword: Rajiformes

Theme_Keyword: Lutjanidae

Theme_Keyword: Scaridae

Theme_Keyword: Carcharhinidae

Theme_Keyword: Carangidae

Theme_Keyword: Acanthuridae

Theme_Keyword: Labridae

Theme_Keyword: Serranidae

Theme_Keyword: Fistulariidae

Theme_Keyword: Balistidae

Theme_Keyword: Sphyraenidae

Theme_Keyword: BIOTA

Theme_Keyword: OCEANS

Theme_Keyword: ENGLISH

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD

Place_Keyword: OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN

Place_Keyword: OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN

Place_Keyword: OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

Place_Keyword: OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN > AMERICAN SAMOA

Place_Keyword: OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN > HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

Place_Keyword: OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN > MICRONESIA > NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

Access_Constraints: ACCESS CONSTRAINTS: To view constraints placed on dataset, please see Policy and Disclaimer section (from the panel on the left) on OBIS-USA web site at http://www.usgs.gov/obis-usa. DISTRIBUTION LIABILITY: OBIS-USA renders information prepared by contributors accessible through dynamic on-line publication. It does not peer-review the quality of the data provided. However, it is confident that the data are the best available in electronic form. OBIS-USA does not own or try to control or limit the use of any data or products accessible through its website. Accordingly, it does not take responsibility for the quality of such data or products, or the use that people may make of them. Users must recognize that the analysis and interpretation of data requires background knowledge and expertise about marine biodiversity (including ecosystems and taxonomy). Users should be aware of possible errors in the use of species names, geo-referencing, data handing and mapping. They should crosscheck their results for possible errors, and qualify their interpretation of any results accordingly. Appropriate caution is thus necessary in the interpretation of results derived from OBIS-USA.

Use_Constraints:

Prior to use of these records in any analysis or report, the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) of the Pacific Island Fisheries Sciences Center must be notified and if used the provenance of the original data must be acknowledged. Acknowledge the use of specific records from contributing CRED databases and acknowledge the use of the OBIS-USA facility. Recognize the limitations of data in OBIS-USA.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: ANNETTE DESROCHERS

Contact_Position: TECHNICAL CONTACT

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Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

City: Honolulu

State_or_Province: HI

Postal_Code: unknown

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 808-983-3761

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Annette.DesRochers at noaa.gov

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

HORIZONTAL POSITIONAL ACCURACY REPORT: Coordinates were determined using GPS and are accurate to 100 meters.

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Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: IOBIS/OBIS-US > UNITED STATES REGIONAL OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (OBIS) NODE

Contact_Person: PHILIP GOLDSTEIN

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 303-887-6043

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Philip.Goldstein@Colorado.edu

Resource_Description: CRED_Fish_TDS

Distribution_Liability:

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Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: Text

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Online_Option:

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http://www.usgs.gov/obis-usa/

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DATA CENTER URL

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Online_Option:

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http://www.usgs.gov/obis-usa

Access_Instructions:

This will direct you to the OBIS-USA web site. Select Participants and Datasets from the panel on the left. Scroll down to CRED_Fish_TDS and click on the "Go" button on the right for a Dataset Detail screen where you will see a map of dataset contents, and tabs for options to Get Data, see Metadata, or use the Data Dashboard for that dataset.

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Online_Option:

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http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/index.php

Access_Instructions:

View the CRED homepage.

Fees: None

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20110526

Metadata_Review_Date: 20120131

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: PHILIP GOLDSTEIN

Contact_Position: DIF AUTHOR

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 303-887-6043

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Philip.Goldstein@Colorado.edu

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time