Forage Fish Aerial Validation Data from Prince William Sound, Alaska

Description

These data are part of the Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA) long term monitoring program, pelagic monitoring component. This dataset consists of one table, providing fish aerial validation data from summer surveys in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Data includes: date, location, latitude, longitude, aerial ID, validation ID, total length and validation method. Various catch methods were used to obtain fish samples for aerial validations, including:cast net, go pro, hydroacoustics, jig, dip net, gill net, purse seine, photo and visual identification.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F74J0C9Z
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.ASC523.xml

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  • environment
  • pelagic-habitat
  • alaska
  • coastal-ecosystems
  • oceans
  • biota
  • gulf-of-alaska
  • prince-william-sound
  • fish
  • forage-fish
  • fisheries
  • food-fishes
  • animals-vertebrates
  • marine-fishery-resources
  • marine-ecosystems
  • usgs-asc523

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