Dataset: Fish surveys at hydrophone sites

Name: Visual assessments of fish densities and sizes on reefs at sites with hydrophone recordings from Eastern Abaco Island, the Bahamas, 2015 and 2016 (Fish and Biogeochem Hot Spots project)
Published: 2017-02-15
Keywords: biota, oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:26.3333 E:-77.0121 S:26.3333 W:-77.0121

Temporal Extent: 2016-02-26 - 2016-05-27

Project:

Fish aggregations and biogeochemical hot spots across regional environmental gradients (Fish and biogeochem hot spots)

Principal Investigator:

Craig Layman (North Carolina State University, NCSU)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version Date:

2017-02-15

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Visual assessments of fish densities and sizes on reefs at sites with hydrophone recordings from Eastern Abaco Island, the Bahamas, 2015 and 2016 (Fish and Biogeochem Hot Spots project)

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Methods & Sampling

Surveys were carried out using snorkel and mask and recorded on underwater paper.

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing:
- added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
- renamed parameters to BCO-DMO standard
- added lat, lon columns
- sorted by date

Data Files

File
fish_surveys_v2_sortdate.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 539.55 KB) MD5:50873037b95ec863a4394731d4794778 Primary data file for dataset ID 681000

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1405198

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
Layman_2014		2014-01-01	Caribbean_nearshore	Craig Layman (Principal Investigator)	data info

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
date	survey date formatted as yyyy-mm-dd	unitless	date
lat_site	latitude; north is positive	decimal degrees	lat
lon_site	longitude; east is positive	decimal degrees	lon
site	survey site code	unitless	site
species	common species name of fish surveyed	unitless	species
count_total	the number of individuals of each species on each reef in a single survey	fish	count
time	survey site	unitless	time
surveyor	person who took survey	unitless	recorder
len_1 to len_288	number of fish surveyed of size 'n' centimeters	fish	count

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Dataset: Fish surveys at hydrophone sites