NCCOS Caribbean Fishery Acoustic Assessment: Fish Density Data Collection from NOAA Ship Nancy Foster, from 2008-03-26 to 2014-05-31 (NCEI Accession 0156395)

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These datasets show acoustically detected fish densities throughout the Caribbean ocean. NOAA/NCCOS collected these datasets to help characterize broad-scale fish abundance, biomass, and understand temporal behavior. Acoustic data was collected aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster using 120-7C splitbeam transducer during cruise # NF08-01, NF09-01, NF10-03, NF11-01, NF12-01, NF13-01, and NF14-01. The hull mounted Simrad 120-7C transducer was calibrated to factory standards and environmental parameters where applied during acquisition. Data was collected using 128 microsecond pulse length and had a varied ping rate due to triggering from Reson 7125 multibeam system. The resulting data layers show geo-referenced fish densities per 100 square meter intervals. The fish densities have been divided into three size classes, small fish (<11cm), medium fish (11cm-29cm), and large fish (>29cm).

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Tags

  • splitbeam echosounder
  • derived data product
  • united states of america
  • acoustic sonar
  • virgin islands
  • geospatial
  • continental shelf
  • acoustic attenuation/transmission
  • oceans
  • puerto rico (18n066w0000)
  • waterbodies
  • vieques island
  • 387
  • southeast puerto rican insular shelf
  • geographic area
  • caribbean sea
  • northeast ecological corridor
  • fishes
  • lesser antilles
  • oceanography
  • biology
  • u. s. virgin islands (17n064w0000)
  • atlantic ocean
  • earth science
  • vieques
  • u.s. states and territories
  • mapping fish habitat use and reef fish spawning aggregations in the us caribbean to inform marine re
  • ocean basin
  • coastal ocean
  • caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean
  • 02bn0c
  • u.s. virgin islands
  • puerto rico
  • coral reefs
  • u. s. virgin islands
  • north atlantic ocean
  • geographic information
  • bioacoustics
  • country/territory
  • ocean acoustics
  • remote sensing
  • vieques island (18n065w0002)

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