Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program: Towed-diver Surveys of Large-bodied Fishes of the U.S. Pacific Reefs from 2000-09-09 to 2012-05-19 (NCEI Accession 0163744)

Description

The towed-diver method is used to conduct surveys of large-bodied (> 50 cm) fishes in the Hawaiian and Mariana Archipelagos, American Samoa, and the Pacific Remote Island Areas as part of the NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). A suitable method for assessing relatively large areas of reef habitat, the method involves towing a pair of SCUBA divers—one benthic and one fish—behind a small boat for approximately 50 min following the ~15-m depth contour and covering about 2–3 km of habitat. Each diver is equipped with a towboard and attempts to maintain a constant elevation above the surface of the reef (~1 m) for the duration of the survey. A complete towed-diver survey is divided into 10 5-min segments, with visual observations recorded by 5-min segment. The visual estimate data provided in this dataset were collected during towed-diver surveys in which the number, size, and species of all large-bodied fishes observed within a visually estimated 5-m transect on either side of the fish diver and 10 m in front were recorded. The data were collected at coral reefs across all U.S.-affiliated regions as part of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) led missions since 2000.

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0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 InPort Metadata Record https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/34521
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/163744
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/163744
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0 Richards, Benjamin L; Williams, Ivor D; Nadon, Marc O; Zgliczynski, Brian J. "A towed-diver survey method for mesoscale fishery-independent assessment of large-bodied reef fishes". Bulletin of Marine Science, January 2011. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2010.1019
0 Institution web page http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred
0 Institution web page http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred
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0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0163744
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/163744
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/163744
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0110/0163744/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred
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0 InPort Metadata Record https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/34521
0 Richards, Benjamin L; Williams, Ivor D; Nadon, Marc O; Zgliczynski, Brian J. "A towed-diver survey method for mesoscale fishery-independent assessment of large-bodied reef fishes". Bulletin of Marine Science, January 2011. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2010.1019
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0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0163744
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/163744
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/163744
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0110/0163744/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred
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0 InPort Metadata Record https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/34521
0 Richards, Benjamin L; Williams, Ivor D; Nadon, Marc O; Zgliczynski, Brian J. "A towed-diver survey method for mesoscale fishery-independent assessment of large-bodied reef fishes". Bulletin of Marine Science, January 2011. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2010.1019
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0163744
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/163744
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/163744
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0110/0163744/
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0 Institution web page http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred
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0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
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0 InPort Metadata Record https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/34521
0 Richards, Benjamin L; Williams, Ivor D; Nadon, Marc O; Zgliczynski, Brian J. "A towed-diver survey method for mesoscale fishery-independent assessment of large-bodied reef fishes". Bulletin of Marine Science, January 2011. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2010.1019

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