Biological, physical, and chemical data from trawl surveys in coastal waters of Alabama and Mississippi from 28 Apr 2010 to 13 Oct 2011 (NODC Accession 0117516)

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2015
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 0117516; 117516; FISH BIOMASS; FISH SPECIES; INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION; INDIVIDUAL FISH EXAMINATION - LENGTH; INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY; INVERTEBRATE SPECIES; SALINITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - COUNT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - ORGANISM LENGTH; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - WET WEIGHT; SPECIES IDENTITY; TAXONOMIC CODE; WATER TEMPERATURE; WEATHER; bucket; scale; trawl; biological; chemical; fish examination; laboratory analyses; physical; survey - biological; Dauphin Island Sea Lab; Deepwater Horizon oil spill event (DWH); Coastal waters of Alabama; Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico; Coastal Waters of Mississippi; Gulf of Mexico; North Atlantic Ocean; oceanography; Alabama; Dauphin Island; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/{0013ECEB-497F-40D1-B278-4946102E52A1}

Abstract: Fishes and macroinvertebrates were collected using a 12.8m semi-balloon trawl with 5cm mesh in spring and fall of 2010 and 2011 in the coastal waters of Alabama and Mississippi. All species were identified to the lowest possible taxonomic level and counted. A wet weight estimate of total biomass (+ grams) was attained for each species using portable spring scales. Finfish collected in 2010 were measured for length (standard, fork, and/or total as appropriate). Purpose: The trawls were part of a larger project that also included longline surveys to compare fish community structure in coastal Alabama and Mississippi before and after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on April 20, 2010.