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TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries Matagorda Bay Bag Seine
Citation
TPWD (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department), 20090124, Texas Coastal Fisheries - Matagorda Bay Bag Seine: HARC (Houston Advanced Research Center), http://gulfcoast.harc.edu/CoastalResources/CoastalFisheries/TexasCoastalFisheries/tabid/2236/Default.aspx. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/5014
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Description
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) utilizes several sampling gears for fisheries-independent monitoring of finfish and shellfish communities. They include bag seines, trawls, gill nets and oyster dredges. TPWD uses multiple gears in a random sampling protocol, and they identify (to the lowest taxonomic unit possible) and count everything that they collect. This dataset contains bag seine data collected for the Matagorda bay system in Texas from 1977 to 2008. more

Collected data also included spatial and temporal information describing the sample location and time, collection gear information, hydrological data (e.g. dissolved oxygen, water temperature, and salinity), weather conditions, species caught, and number of each species captured. Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) calculated the relative abundance data, calculated as the catch of a particular species in a sample divided by the total number of animals captured in that sample. Absence data was recorded for species on the TPWD species sampling lists that were not captured during sampling.
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Fish, Biology > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, ASW, USA, Texas, Matagorda Bay
Geographical coverage
ASW, USA, Texas, Matagorda Bay [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
1977 - 2008
Parameter
Occurrence of biota
Contributor
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), more, data creator
Related datasets
Published in:
OBIS-USA: US Ocean Biodiversity Informaton System, more
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Dataset information:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-05-05
Information last updated: 2015-05-08
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