Description
In response to declines in reef fishes, the Hawaii state legislature created the West Hawaii Regional Fishery Management Area in 1998 to improve fishery resources (Act 306). The West Hawaii Aquarium Project (WHAP) was funded by the Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative to monitor to fish populations and quantify the habitats in this region. This dataset consists of an MS Access relational database of all monitoring data from 1999-2002 and image and random point files of benthic habitat survey frames grabbed from video transects. During initial funding under CRAMP in 1998-99, 23 permanent study sites were established positioned in all of the proposed Fish Replenishment Areas (FRAs) as well as eight sites where fish collecting is know to occur ("impact"), and six managed areas where aquarium fish collection is prohibited (three Marine Life Conservation Districts (MLCDs) and three FMAs or "control"). Initial surveys confirm that aquarium fish collecting impacts are significant but vary along the coastline.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Resource | Unknown | Open resource |
Tags
- abundance
- anaehoomalu
- and species
- baseline studies
- benthos analysis
- big island
- biology
- biosphere
- central pacific ocean
- coastal processes
- coral reef
- coral reef ecology
- coral reefs
- corals
- coral species and abundance
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- fish
- fish density
- habitats
- hawaii
- hawaiian islands
- hawaii island
- hawaii island (19n155w0003)
- honokohau
- hookena (auau)
- hookena (kalahiki)
- in situ biological
- kamilo
- kaupulehu
- kealakekua bay
- keawaiki
- ke'ei
- keopuka
- kualanui pt
- lapakahi
- makalawena
- marine biology
- mhi
- milolii (manuka)
- milolii (omakaa)
- n. keauhou
- north pacific ocean
- numeric data sets
- ocean basin
- oceans
- pacific ocean
- papawai
- puako
- red hill
- reef fish
- reef fish census
- reef monitoring and assessment
- s. oneo bay
- substrate type
- transect monitoring
- united states of america
- video transect
- waiakailio bay
- wawaloli
- wawaloli beach
- zoology