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TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries Lower Laguna Madre Trawl

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Citation

Gonzalez L, Benson A (2017). TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries Lower Laguna Madre Trawl. Version 2.3. United States Geological Survey. Occurrence Dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ifutco accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-04-22.

Description

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) utilizes several sampling gears for fisheries-independent monitoring of finfish and shellfish communities. They include bag seines, trawls, gill nets and oyster dredges. TPWD uses multiple gears in a random sampling protocol, and they identify (to the lowest taxonomic unit possible) and count everything that they collect. This dataset contains bay trawl data collected for the Lower Laguna Madre system in Texas from 1982 to 2008. Collected data also included spatial and temporal information describing the sample location and time, collection gear information, hydrological data (e.g. dissolved oxygen, water temperature, and salinity), weather conditions, species caught, and number of each species captured. Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) calculated the relative abundance data, calculated as the catch of a particular species in a sample divided by the total number of animals captured in that sample. Absence data was recorded for species on the TPWD species sampling lists that were not captured during sampling.

Additional info

marine, harvest by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Lower Laguna Madre System. All waters behind the surfline, including all saltwater bayous, from Rincon De San Jose to the south edge of South Bay and including the Arroyo Colorado, Brazos Santiago Pass, and Brownsville Ship Channel.

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Contacts

Lisa Gonzalez
originator
position: Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Houston Advanced Research Center
4800 Research Forest Dr
The Woodlands
77381
TX
US
email: lgonzalez@harcresearch.org
Abigail Benson
metadata author
position: Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey
email: albenson@usgs.gov
Abigail Benson
user
position: Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey
email: albenson@usgs.gov
Lisa Gonzalez
administrative point of contact
position: Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Houston Advanced Research Center
4800 Research Forest Dr
The Woodlands
77381
TX
US
email: lgonzalez@harcresearch.org
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