Individual Measurements from trawl surveys of fish and invertebrates in Coastal Alabama, Mississippi, and the Chandeleur Islands, March - December, 2016

Abstract

Fishes and macroinvertebrates were collected using a 12.8m semi-balloon otter trawl with 4 cm mesh in Spring and Fall of 2016 in the coastal waters of Alabama and Mississippi, as well as the Chandeleur Islands. Length measurements and individual biomass of a subset of fish and macroinvertebrates taken in the trawls were recorded for each trawl. Length measurements appropriate for each species were recorded to the nearest millimeter, and biomass was recorded to the gram.

Purpose

Our purpose was to collect community-level data of the demersal fish and invertebrate species, looking for shifts in community composition due to remaining effects of oiling years after the oil spill.

DOI: doi:10.7266/N7GQ6W01

Suggested Citation

John Valentine, Charlie Martin, J. Marcus Drymon, Trey Spearman, and Sean Powers. 2017. Individual Measurements from trawl surveys of fish and invertebrates in Coastal Alabama, Mississippi, and the Chandeleur Islands, March - December, 2016. Distributed by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC), Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N7GQ6W01

Funded by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)

Funding cycle: RFP-IV

Research group: Alabama Center for Ecological Resilience (ACER)