Trawl surveys of fish and invertebrates in Coastal Alabama, Mississippi, and the Chandeleur Islands, April - July 2015

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Abstract

Fishes and macroinvertebrates were collected using a 12.8m semi-balloon otter trawl with 4 cm mesh in Spring and Fall of 2015 in the coastal waters of Alabama and Mississippi, as well as the Chandeleur Islands. Abundance and biomass of all fish and macroinvertebrates taken in the trawls were enumerated by species and weighed to the nearest 0.1g or kg, depending on size.

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/N72R3PNJ

Suggested Citation

John Valentine, Charlie Martin, J. Marcus Drymon, Trey Spearman, and Sean Powers. 2017. Trawl surveys of fish and invertebrates in Coastal Alabama, Mississippi, and the Chandeleur Islands, April - July 2015. Distributed by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC), Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N72R3PNJ

Related Publication Citation

Martin, C. W., Lewis, K. A., McDonald, A. M., Spearman, T. P., Alford, S. B., Christian, R. C., & Valentine, J. F. (2020). Disturbance-driven changes to northern Gulf of Mexico nekton communities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 155, 111098. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111098

Funded by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)

Funding cycle: RFP-IV

Research group: Alabama Center for Ecological Resilience (ACER)

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Author John Valentine
Maintainer data@disl.org
Last Updated October 25, 2022, 19:34 (UTC)
Created July 27, 2022, 14:35 (UTC)
DOI doi:10.7266/N72R3PNJ
ISO.principalInvestigator John Valentine <jvalentine@disl.org>
Place Keywords Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay, Chandeleur Islands, Chandeleur Sound, Gulf of Mexico, Dauphin Island
Temporal Begin 2015-04-22
Temporal End 2015-11-30
Theme Keywords demersal, fish, invertebrate, trawl
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