Data.gov Catalog
Spring Bottom Trawl Survey
Published by Northeast Fisheries Science Center
About this dataset
The standardized NEFSC Spring Bottom Trawl Survey was initiated in 1968 and covered an area from Cape Hatteras, NC, to Nova Scotia, Canada, at depths >27m. Throughout the years, coverage has extended as far south as Florida and sampling depths have ranged from 18 m, as the result of a change in the sampling platform. This has resulted in the exclusion of many inshore strata.
Tags
- age & growth
- biological measures
- fishery-independent surveys
- genotype/species identification
- maturity data
- physical measures
- population survey
- FRV Albatross IV
- FRV Delaware II
- FRV Henry B. Bigelow
- FV Atlantic Twin
- age sampling
- biological sampling
- bottom trawl
- distribution
- feeding Ecologye
- groundfish
- hydroacoustics
- ichthyoplantkon
- invertebrates
- oceanographic
- relative abundance
- seasonal distribution
- size composition
- standardized
- stratified random sampling
- survey
- zooplankton
- continuous
- spring
- Cape Hatteras
- Georges Bank
- Gulf of Maine
- Mid-Atlantic Bight
- continental shelf
- northwest Atlantic
- southern New England
- benthic
- demersal
- pelagic