Beach seine fish survey along the coast of Newfoundland from 1960-1964 (Fleming Survey) and from 1992-1996 (Resurrected Fleming Survey) ...

• Main Author: McCain, James Scott Patrick
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: Event label; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; ORDINAL NUMBER; Area/locality; Comment of event; DATE/TIME; Time coverage; Vegetation type; DEPTH, water; Hippoglossoides platessoides; Lophius piscatorius; Stichaeus punctatus punctatus; Gadus morhua; Clupea harengus; Scomber scombrus; Salmo salar; Pholis fasciata; Salvelinus fontinalis; Peprilus triacanthus; Mallotus villosus; Tautogolabrus adspersus; Leptoclinus maculatus; Anguilla rostrata; Dactylopterus volitans; Gadus ogac; Melanogrammus aeglefinus; Cyclopterus lumpus; Zoarces americanus; Ulvaria subbifurcata; Osmerus mordax mordax; Pholis gunnellus; Ammodytes spp.; Cottidae; Hemitripterus americanus; Rajidae indeterminata; Lumpenus lampretaeformis; Raja montagui; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Anisarchus medius; Amblyraja radiata; Urophycis tenuis; Pseudopleuronectes americanus; Limanda ferruginea; Beach seine; atlantic cod; Newfoundland; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.873256; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.873256

The collapse of the Northwest Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) stocks in the early 1990s led to widespread ecological changes offshore. Changes in coastal fish communities are less known, largely due to the lack of historical records and long-term, standardized research surveys in coastal ecosystems. We aimed to overcome this with a unique dataset known as the Fleming survey. From 1959 to 1964, a systematic beach-seine survey was conducted to examine juvenile cod abundance in 84 bays (42 of which were consistently sampled and therefore analysed) along the east coast of Newfoundland. In addition to cod, all other fish collected in the seines were recorded. These surveys were repeated from 1992 to 1996 after the cod collapse, and document a substantial reduction in a dominant inshore species - juvenile Atlantic cod. We show that total fish abundance declined significantly with the decrease of cod, whereas Shannon diversity and species evenness significantly increased. Species richness increased in some regions but ... : Supplement to: McCain, James Scott Patrick; Cull, Daneen J; Schneider, David C; Lotze, Heike K (2016): Long-term shift in coastal fish communities before and after the collapse of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). ICES Journal of Marine Science, 73(5), 1415-1426 ...