Fishery-independent Bottom Trawl Surveys for Deep-water Fishes and Invertebrates of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, 2002–08

From 2002 through 2008, the Mississippi Laboratories of the NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, conducted fishery-independent bottom trawl surveys for continental shelf and outer-continental shelf deep-water fishes and invertebrates of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (50–500 m bottom depths). Five-hundred and ninety species were captured at 797 bottom trawl locations. Standardized survey gear andrandomly selected survey sites have facilitateddevelopment of a fishery-independent time series that characterizes species diversity, distributions, and catch per unit effort. The fishery-independent surveys providesynoptic descriptions of deep-water fauna potentially impacted by various anthropogenic factors.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Grace, Mark A., Noble, Brandi, Ingram, Walter, Pollack, Adam, Hamilton, Alonzo
Format:	article biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	2010
Subjects:	Fisheries, Management,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/1834/26277
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