NCCOS Caribbean Fishery Acoustic Assessment: Fish Density Data Collection from NOAA Ship Nancy Foster, from 2008-03-26 to 2014-05-31 (NCEI Accession 0156395)

• Main Authors: Chris Taylor, Bryan Costa, J. Christopher Taylor, Laura Kracker, Tim Battista, Simon Pittman, Laura M. Kracker, Erik Ebert, Charles Menza, J.C. Taylor
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2017
• 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; DOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS > National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 0156395; 156395; FISHERY SURVEY; echo sounder; GIS product; in situ; NANCY FOSTER; US DOC; NOAA; NOS; National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science; Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP); Caribbean Sea; North Atlantic Ocean; oceanography; 387; Mapping Fish Habitat Use and Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations in the US Caribbean to Inform Marine Reserve Management; Geographic Information > Biology; EARTH SCIENCE > Ocean > Ocean Acoustics > Acoustic Attenuation/Transmission; EARTH SCIENCE > Ocean > Ocean Acoustics > Acoustic Attenuation/Transmission > Bioacoustics; EARTH SCIENCE > Ocean > Ocean Acoustics > Acoustic Attenuation/Transmission > Bioacoustics > Fishes; NCCOS Research Data Type > Derived Data Product; NCCOS Research Data Type > Geospatial; NCCOS Research Priority > Marine Spatial Ecology (MSE); NCCOS Research Topic > Acoustic Sonar; NCCOS Research Topic > Coral Reefs; NCCOS Research Topic > Remote Sensing; NCCOS Research Location > Geographic Area > Coastal Ocean; NCCOS Research Location > Geographic Area > Continental Shelf; NCCOS Research Location > Geographic Area > Coral Reefs; NCCOS Research Location > Region > U.S. Caribbean; NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Puerto Rico; NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > United States Virgin Islands; ECHO SOUNDERS; Splitbeam Echosounder; SHIPS; COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Puerto Rico > Puerto Rico (18N066W0000); COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Puerto Rico > Vieques > Vieques Island (18N065W0002); COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > U. S. Virgin Islands > U. S. Virgin Islands (17N064W0000); OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea /North Atlantic Ocean > Puerto Rico > Puerto Rico (18N066W0000); OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea /North Atlantic Ocean > Puerto Rico > Vieques Island > Vieques Island (18N065W0002); OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Lesser Antilles > U. S. Virgin Islands (17N064W0000); OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA; Northeast Ecological Corridor; Southeast Puerto Rican Insular Shelf; North Atlantic
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These data sets show acoustically detected fish densities throughout the Caribbean ocean. NOAA/NCCOS collected these data sets to help characterize broad-scale fish abundance, biomass, and understand temporal behavior. Acoustic data was collected aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster using 120-7C splitbeam transducer during cruise # NF08-01, NF09-01, NF10-03, NF11-01, NF12-01, NF13-01, and NF14-01. The hull mounted Simrad 120-7C transducer was calibrated to factory standards and environmental parameters where applied during acquisition. Data was collected using 128 microsecond pulse length and had a varied ping rate due to triggering from Reson 7125 multibeam system. The resulting data layers show geo-referenced fish densities per 100 square meter intervals. The fish densities have been divided into three size classes, small fish (<11cm), medium fish (11cm-29cm), and large fish (>29cm).