Abstract
Fishes and macroinvertebrates were collected using a 12.8m semi-balloon otter trawl with 4 cm mesh in Fall of 2015 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. Abundance and biomass of all fish and macroinvertebrates taken in the trawls is available in dataset R4.x262.000:0004.
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/N7CF9N5T
Suggested Citation
John Valentine, Charlie Martin, J. Marcus Drymon, Trey Spearman, and Sean Powers. 2016. Individual Measurements from trawl surveys of fish and invertebrates in Coastal Alabama, Mississippi, and the Chandeleur Islands, September to November, 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/N7CF9N5T
Funded by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)
Funding cycle: RFP-IV
Research group: Alabama Center for Ecological Resilience (ACER)
