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Title: Bag Seine Catch Data in Bays along the Texas Coast from 1982 to 2016 (NCEI Accession 0299446)
Abstract: This dataset contains biological, chemical, physical, and survey - biological data collected from 1982-01-01 to 2016-12-31. These data include common_name, dissolved Oxygen, salinity calculated from CTD primary sensors, species, taxon_code, turbidity, and water temperature. The instruments used to collect these data include Seine Net. These data were collected by Masami Fujiwara of Texas A&M University and Fernando Martinez-Andrade of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department as part of the "Effects of physical environmental conditions on the species distribution and composition of marine fish and invertebrates along the Texas coast (Texas Coastal Fish)" project. The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) submitted these data to NCEI on 2019-09-23.

The following is the text of the dataset description provided by BCO-DMO:

Monthly bag seine catch data of vertebrates and invertebrates from bays along the Texas coast from 1982 to 2016

Dataset Description:
Vertebrates and invertebrates caught with bag seine in Sabine Lake, Galveston Bay, Matagorda Bay, San Antonio Bay, Aransas Bay, Corpus Christi Bay, Upper Laguna Madre, and Lower Laguna Madre. Data were collected monthly from 1982 to 2016 (except in Sabine Lake sampling begun in 1986).
Date received: 20190923
Start date: 19820101
End date: 20161231
Seanames:
West boundary: -97.74444
East boundary: -93.71972
North boundary: 30.05556
South boundary: 26.01667
Observation types: biological, chemical, physical, survey - biological
Instrument types: net
Datatypes: DISSOLVED OXYGEN, SALINITY, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION, TAXONOMIC CODE, turbidity, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office
Collecting institutions: Texas A&M University; College Station, Texas State Parks and Wildlife Department
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Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Acquisition Description:
The data were sampled in Sabine Lake, Galveston Bay, Matagorda Bay, San Antonio Bay, Aransas Bay, Corpus Christi Bay, the upper Laguna Madre, and the lower Laguna Madre from January 1982 to December 2016 (except in Sabine Lake, where sampling begun in January 1986). The surveys were conducted bi-weekly using bag seines (18.3 m long and 1.8 m deep with 19 mm stretched nylon mesh in wings and 13 mm stretched mesh in the bag), which were deployed along the shoreline. Bag seines were deployed multiple times during the first and second halves of the month in every bay system. The location of each sample was determined by randomly selecting one station from a predefined sampling universe and, once in the field, selecting a section of available shoreline within that station. At the selected sampling location, the bag seine was extended 12.2 m perpendicularly to the shoreline, then pulled parallel to the shoreline over 15.5 m. The offshore end was then retrieved to shore while keeping the onshore end stationary and maintaining the full extent (12.2 m) of the bag seine using a limit line. Organisms greater than 5 mm in total length were identified to the lowest taxonomic level. Further details of sampling protocols are described in the Marine Resource Monitoring Operations Manual (PDF).

Note: All station_id numbers are included at least once in this dataset (e.g. some organisms were observed at every station/sampling event).
Availability date:
Metadata version: 1
Keydate: 2024-11-29 16:11:36+00
Editdate: 2024-11-29 16:11:57+00