Forage Fish Catch 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 catch data from summer surveys in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Data includes: date, time, latitude, longitude, fish common name, and fish count. Various catch methods were used to obtain fish samples for aerial and hydroacoustic validations, including: modified herring trawl, purse seine, beach seine, gillnet, cast net, dip net, and jig.

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.ASC99.xml

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  • environment
  • pelagic-habitat
  • alaska
  • coastal-ecosystems
  • oceans
  • biota
  • gulf-of-alaska
  • prince-william-sound
  • fish
  • trawling
  • forage-fish
  • fisheries
  • food-fishes
  • animals-vertebrates
  • marine-fishery-resources
  • marine-ecosystems
  • zooplankton
  • usgs-asc99

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