Surveys

CTD
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Stereo Camera Array
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Dolphin Photo ID
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Groundfish survey
Mission: To monitor inter-annual estimates of relative abundance for demersal species occurring in the northern and western Gulf of Mexico.
Long line survey
Mission: To conduct longline surveys to monitor interannual variability in the abundance of shark populations off the Atlantic coast and in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Marine mammal survey
Mission: To assess the stock structure, distribution and abundance of marine mammals in the U.S. Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea.
Plankton surveys
Mission: Sample fish eggs, larvae and juveniles, their zooplankton predators and prey, and measure the physical properties of their pelagic habitat in order to provide a time series of fishery-independent estimates of relative abundance, as well as, ecosystem-relevant data on early life history and ecology, habitat, and recruitment characteristics of both fishery and non-fishery species.
Reef fish survey
Objective: To provide an index of the relative abundances of fish species associated with topographic features (banks, ledges) located on the continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico in the area from Brownsville, Texas to Dry Tortugas, Florida.