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 |
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55 |
Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/F74J0C9Z |
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55 |
The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.ASC99.xml |
Tags
- 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