Northeast Fisheries Science Center Bottom Trawl Survey Data
OBIS-USA

iOBIS and OBIS-USA

This is the Northeast Fisheries Science Center Bottom Trawl Survey database for Northwest Atlantic marine organisms. Survey cruises use a bottom trawl to sample randomly selected stations in an attempt to delineate the species composition, geographic distribution, and abundance of various resources. Fish and selected invertebrate species are identified. Weight, length, total catch numbers, age structures, maturity stages, sex determinations and food content are recorded or collected during the survey cruises. Associated oceanographic and meteorological data, salinity, conductivity, and temperature data are available for all stations. Ichthyoplankton and zooplankton data is available for a subset of the stations. Geographic coverage is from Cape Hatteras to the Gulf of Maine and from the coast to the slope water.

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Original data obtained from no_url and registered into iOBIS on 2009-05-21. This dataset on OBIS-SEAMAP is a subset of marine mammal, seabird and/or sea turtle records from the dataset on iOBIS (Total number of records: 460938) harvested into OBIS-SEAMAP on 2011-10-11

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Northeast Fisheries Science Center (2005). Northeast Fisheries Science Center Bottom Trawl Survey Data. NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Northeast Fisheries Science Center. Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Data on iOBIS. 2009. http://iobis.org/mapper/?resource_id=1435, obtained on 2011-10-11

Original data source. http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/, obtained on 2009-05-27

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downlodable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission unless otherwise noteded below.

The attributes of this dataset are compatible with the OBIS Schema, then reformatted to the OBIS-SEAMAP schema. If you would like to get the data in the OBIS Schema, please visit iOBIS Portal.