AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Columbia waters treaty Logbook Survey (Vessels)

This data set will contains catch (landed catch) and effort for fishing trips made by vessels fishing in Columbian waters. Because the soak time for these fisheries is relatively short, it is infeasible to require fishermen to complete a separate form every time the gear is deployed. Thus, the catch and effort data for the entire trip are reported on a single form (i.e., one form per trip). The types of information required on this trip form includes information on the quantity (reported in pounds) caught for each species, the area of catch, the type and quantity of gear, the date of departure and return, the dealer and location (county and state where the trip is unloaded), the duration of the trip (time away from dock), an estimate of the fishing time, and the number of crew are included on this form.

Tags: doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, fishdep, fisheries statistics division, fishery-dependent, national marine fisheries service, noaa, southeast fisheries science center, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Marine Mammal Incidental Take

To document interactions and harvesting of marine mammals by fishing vessels in which there is an observer aboard

Tags: atlantic ocean, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, dolphin, fishdep, fishery-dependent, gulf of mexico, incidental take, marine mammal, national marine fisheries service, noaa, observer, pelagic longline observer program, southeast fisheries science center, u.s. department of commerce, whale
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Oculina Habitat Area of Concern Assessment

Scientists and students will be exploring the deepwater coral reefs of the Oculina Banks, which stretch 30 miles offshore from Ft. Pierce to Cape Canaveral. This remote area includes the East Coast's first Marine Protected Area (MPA) which is a model for efforts underway to create new MPAs throughout southeast U.S. waters and the Gulf of Mexico. The team will use a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to study the current health of coral on the banks, which has been decimated in places by commercial trawling. They will also test an acoustic monitoring system that could one day be used to not only monitor fish behavior but also to detect illegal fishing activity on the reefsscientists and students will be exploring the deepwater coral reefs of the Oculina Banks, which stretch 30 miles offshore from Ft. Pierce to Cape Canaveral. This remote area includes the East Coast's first Marine Protected Area (MPA) which is a model for efforts underway to create new MPAs throughout southeast U.S. waters and the Gulf of Mexico. The team will use a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to study the current health of coral on the banks, which has been decimated in places by commercial trawling. They will also test an acoustic monitoring system that could one day be used to not only monitor fish behavior but also to detect illegal fishing activity on the reefs

Scientists on the Oculina cruise will also be deploying a Passive Acoustic Monitoring System (PAMS) developed by NASA to monitor the impacts of rocket launches on wildlife refuge lagoons at the Kennedy Space Center. Led by Dr. Grant Gilmore, Dynamac Corporation, they will test the system's suitability for detecting offshore fish populations and vessel traffic. PAMS uses technology similar to that which allows the Navy to detect ships and submarines. Scientists from NASA Kennedy Space Center and NOAA Fisheries will join Dr. Gilmore specifically to see if the unit can be used to detect the presence of specific fish species and behaviors such as courtship and spawning aggregation. If so, the system could dramatically increase monitoring capabilities at the remote reefs.

Tags: 2001-2004, abundance, atlantic ocean, coral reef, distribution, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, finss, grouper, national marine fisheries service, noaa, north atlantic ocean, ocean, oculina banks, oculina habitat area of concern assessment, reef fish, snapper, southeast fisheries science center, species, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Turtle Excluder Device Compliance Data in Southeast Shrimp Fishery

The April 18, 2014, Biological Opinion requires NOAA Fisheries Gear Monitoring Team to ensure compliance with Turtle Excluder Device (TED) regulations at a level that keeps overall average sea turtle catch rates (i.e., sea turtles that do not escape via the TED and are captured) in the shrimp otter trawl fleet at or below 12%. NOAAâs Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) and Southeast Fisheries Science Center Mississippi Laboratory, inspect TEDs in otter trawls on shrimp vessels in the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico for their compliance with TED regulations. The Mississippi Laboratories, with assistance from NOAA Fisheries Southeast Regional Officeâs Protected Resources Division, analyzes the TED inspection data to estimate sea turtle capture rates and TED effectiveness.

Tags: doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, fishery, gom, gulf of mexico, mississippi laboratories, national marine fisheries service, noaa, shrimp, southeast, southeast fisheries science center, ted, turtle excluder device, turtle excluder device data, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Diet of scalloped hammerhead shark in eastern Gulf of Mexico

Juvenile scalloped hammerhead sharks, Sphyrna lewini, were collected in northwest Florida to examine foraging ecology, bioenergetics, and trophic level (30-60 cm FL mean FL  41.5 cm n  196).  Diet analysis was performed using single and compound measures of prey quantity.  Diet was also analyzed using seven broad diet categories (DC).  Diet composition and estimated daily ration were compared to previously published information on bonnethead sharks, S. tiburo.  Diet overlap was low between species.  Juvenile S. lewini feed on relatively small (85 of prey items  5 shark length) teleosts (mostly bothids and sciaenids) and shrimps, whereas S. tiburo have been documented to feed mostly on crustaceans and plant material in northwest Florida.  Plant material contributed little to the diet of S. lewini.  Estimated daily ration was significantly lower for S. lewini (4.6  BW d-1) than for S. tiburo in northwest Florida, regardless if plant material was included in the model (p0.02 including and p0.00001 excluding plant material).  Trophic level was calculated at 4.0 for S. lewini and 2.6 for S. tiburo.  Stable isotope analysis showed S. lewini had significantly higher 15N values and significantly lower 13C values than S. tiburo, supporting the difference observed in calculated trophic level.  These results provide evidence that small juvenile hammerhead species co-exist in coastal northwest Florida by feeding at separate trophic levels.

Tags: 0163192, 163192, 1998-2005, a comparison of the foraging ecology and bioenergetics of the early life-stages of two sympatric ham, animals - individual - stomach contents, atlantic ocean, bathymetry/seafloor topography, biological classification, biological data, coastal waters of florida, crooked island sound, diet, doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, earth science, fishery-dependent, fl laboratory, foraging ecology, gulf of america, gulf of mexico, national centers for environmental information, national marine fisheries service, nesdis, nmfs, noaa, north atlantic ocean, ocean, ocean temperature, oceans, panama city, resource partitioning, s. lewini, s. tiburo, scale, scalloped hammerhead sharks, southeast fisheries science center, sphyrna lewini, st. vincent island, stomach contents - prey, stomach contents - prey count, stomach contents stomach contents - content weight, taxonomy, u.s. department of commerce, us doc, water depth, water temperature, ysi - handheld multi-parameter instrument
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
GULFSPAN Photos

Photos of catch, methodology, scientists, and habitat organized by year and month, 2003-current.

Tags: 2005-present, cooperative gulf of mexico shark pupping and nursey project, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, elasmobranch species, finss, florida, gillnet, gulf of mexico, gulfspan, length, national marine fisheries service, noaa, sex, sharks, southeast fisheries science center, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Cooperative Marine Turtle Tagging Program

Tag release and recapture data on sea turtles in the Western North Atlantic. Currently, this database is administered by the University of Floridas Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research under contract from the SEFSC. 

Local Copies of this are maintained.

Tags: cooperative marine turtle tagging program, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, national marine fisheries service, noaa, north atlantic, southeast fisheries science center, turtles, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Photographic Data

Photos taken during marine mammal sightings

Tags: 0244002, 10.25921/01c2-5g70, 14450, 2018, animals/vertebrates, atlantic ocean, baleen whales, bathymetry/seafloor topography, big eye binocular, binocular, binoculars, biological, biological classification, biological data, biological records, biosphere, bureau of ocean energy management, camera, cameras, cetacean, cetacean visual observations using line-transect survey methods onboard the noaa ship pisces in the , cetaceans, climate indicators, community dynamics, continent, ctd, distance sampling, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, dolphin, earth science, ecological dynamics, endangered species, flourescence, gulf of america, gulf of mexico, in situ, in situ/laboratory instruments, indicator species, line-transect, m17pg00013, mammals, marine mammal observation, marine mammals, miami lab, na15oar4320064, na20oar4320472, national marine fisheries service, national oceanic and atmospheric administration, nmfs, noaa, noaa ship pisces, north america, north atlantic ocean, ocean, ocean temperature, oceanography, oceans, oxygen, paleoclimate indicators, photograph, photographs, pisces (ices code: 334b), population abundance, sea turtle, ships, sighting, southeast fisheries science center, species abundance, species identification, species/population interactions, survey - biological, survey ships, toothed whales, u.s. department of commerce, us department of the interior, us doc, us doi, video, video camera, visual estimate, visual observation, visual observations, water depth
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Elkhorn coral demographic monitoring from 2004-03-30 to 2024-08-15 (NCEI Accession 0142175)

The overall objectives of this project are to document the dynamics of the remaining Elkhorn populations in the upper Florida Keys and to compare its performance to other Caribbean locations. This is an on-going monitoring project with thrice yearly surveys in the upper Florida Keys and annual surveys in Curaao and only episodic surveys in Navassa (2006, 2009, 2012). Study units are 150 m2 plots in which all attached Acropora palmata colonies are mapped and surveyed each year. In Florida, individually tagged A. palmata colonies are surveyed more frequently to document their condition. Based on these observations, we can estimate basic population parameters including recruitment, growth and mortality, along with the causes of recent tissue mortality and the sources of recruitment (asexual or sexual).   All monitored colonies are genotyped such that clones within the population are identified.

Tags: 0142175, 1091, 142175, 2004-2018, acanthostracion polygonium, acropora demographic monitoring, acropora palmata, atlantic ocean, bathymetry/seafloor topography, biology, biosphere, boring sponge, caribbean sea, carysfort reef (25n080w0013), cliona, coastal landforms, coastal waters of florida, conch reef (24n080w0011), continent, coral, coral - census, coral - colony size, coral - species identification, coral diseases, coral predation, coral reef, coral reef conservation program (crcp), coral reef studies, coral reefs, coral snail, coralliophila erosa, country/territory, curacao, damsel fish, doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei, doc/noaa/nesdis/nodc, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, earth science, ecosystems, elbow reef (25n080w0020), evaluation of esa listed acropora spp. status and recovery actions, florida, florida keys, florida reef tract, french reef (25n080w0022), geomorphic landforms/processes, grecian rocks (25n080w0019), gulf of america, gulf of mexico, in situ, key largo (25n080w0010), key largo dry rocks (25n080w0039), land surface, marine ecosystems, molasses reef (25n080w0003), monroe county, national centers for environmental information, national marine fisheries service, national oceanographic data center, navassa island, navassa island (18n075w0001), nesdis, netherlands antilles, noaa, north america, north atlantic ocean, numeric data sets, ocean, ocean basin, oceans, reef, reef monitoring and assessment, sand island (25n080w0036), southeast fisheries science center, stegastes planifrons, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, upper florida keys, visual observation, visual observations, water depth
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Ichthyoplankton (biological) data collected aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster during cruise 0903 from 2009-04-07 to 2009-04-20 (NCEI Accession 0071978)

Station data and ichthyoplankton (biological) data from cruise 0903 from the US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Anegada Passage, Leeward Islands and Saba Bank. In addition, inshore data from St. Thomas seine net tows is included. Data is housed in in a spreadsheet database (Excel) format to be maintained, updated and utilized by members the Early Life History (ELH) group and all project partners.

Tags: 0071978, 2009, 71978, abundance, anegada, anegada (18n064w0001), anegada passage, atlantic ocean, atlantic oceanographic and meteorological laboratory, biological, biological classification, biology, biosphere, british overseas territory, british virgin islands, british virgin islands (18n064w0000), caribbean sea, caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean, coral reef conservation program (crcp), coral reef studies, country/territory, dispersal and recruitment connectivity, distribution, doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei, doc/noaa/nesdis/nodc, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, doc/noaa/oar/aoml, earth science, ecological dynamics, fish - coral reef, fish eggs, fish eggs and larvae, fish larvae, fisheries, fisheries oceanography, ichthyoplankton, ichthyoplankton identity, in situ, leeward islands, lesser antilles, microbiota, mocness, mocness plankton net, multiple opening/closing net and environmental sensing system (mocness), nancy foster, national centers for environmental information, national marine fisheries service, national oceanographic data center, nesdis, noaa, noaa ship nancy foster, north atlantic ocean, numeric data sets, oar, ocean, ocean basin, plankton, protists, puerto rico, puerto rico (18n066w0000), saba bank, seine nets, seine nets (nei), ships, southeast fisheries science center, species recruitment, u. s. virgin islands, u. s. virgin islands (17n064w0000), u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, us virgin islands, usvi larval distribution and supply, vieques, vieques island, vieques island (18n065w0002), virgin islands
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Genetic Analysis Database

Samples of skin and other tissues are collected from marine mammals along the U.S. east coast by a variety of researchers. Samples may be collected from live animals through remote biopsy or live-capture, stranded animals, or animals captured incidentally during fishery operations. DNA is extracted from these samples, sequenced, and analyzed using a variety of methods to support phylogenetic studies, stock delineation studies, and a variety of other analyses related to cetacean genetics in U.S. waters. These data sets include the sequence and other genetic data collected from these samples along with analytical results. These data contribute to delineation of stocks described in annual Marine Mammal Protection Act stock assessment reports.

Tags: doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, genetic analysis database, national marine fisheries service, noaa, southeast fisheries science center, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
2002 Gulf of Mexico Charterboat Trip and Annual Economic Data (processed)

This chapter examines the methodological challenges associated with collecting economic data from the for-hire fishing sector. A cost and earnings survey of charter boat operators in the Southeast United States serves as a case study. In the case study, a telephone survey was used to collect information about individual trips and a mail survey was used to collect complementary data about annual expenses. The results of the case study are used in the discussion of economic data requirements and survey methodology most applicable to the charter boat industry. Recommendations are provided for improving the design of surveys to collect economic data from the for-hire sector.

Tags: doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, fishery-dependent, national marine fisheries service, noaa, recreational fishing - for-hire sector studies, southeast fisheries science center, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Fishery-independent Surveys of Queen Conch in St. Croix 2010-2011

We examined queen conch populations on the northeastern coast of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, using a radial survey sampling technique with sample sites stratified by depth, habitat type, and management regime, encompassing both open and closed fishing areas.  We completed 503 radial surveys and located 4773 conch, representing a cumulative density of approximately 302 conch per hectare.  Densities of juvenile conch were highest in 5090 patchy seagrass beds in Buck Island Reef National Monument (BIRNM) due to high numbers of small 79 cm conch.  Overall length frequencies showed a bimodal distribution, driven largely by juvenile conch found within the BIRNM.  Length distributions by habitat were variable but showed a trend toward larger conch in reef, macroalgae, and sand habitats compared to a more even distribution in seagrass.  Densities of adults were highest inside the BIRNM in 1050 patchy seagrass where several conch were observed mating and laying egg masses.

Tags: 2010-2011, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, galveston fisheries ecology projects, national marine fisheries service, noaa, queen conch, southeast fisheries science center, st. croix, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Black Sea Bass genetic connectivity

Microsatellite analysis of black sea bass was undertaken to determine magnitude and direction of mixing of black seabass across the Hatteras boundary, as well as mixing between east coast populations and the Gulf of Mexico and east coast populations.

Tags: 2011-2013, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, fisheries biology and ecology, genetics, mixing rate, national marine fisheries service, noaa, sea bass, south atlantic, southeast fisheries science center, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Passive Acoustic Studies of North Atlantic Right Whales

Passive acoustic monitoring buoys have been deployed in shallow waters between North Carolina and Northern Florida since 2003.  These units are bottom mounted recorders that collect data on sound for periods of 3-6 months.  The resulting data are analyzed to identify vocalizations that are unique to North Atlantic Right whales to document their occurrence in these waters.  These data have been used to evaluate the seasonal occurrence of North Atlantic right whales in waters south of North Carolina during winter months.

Tags: doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, national marine fisheries service, noaa, passive acoustic studies of north atlantic right whales, southeast fisheries science center, u.s. department of commerce
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
CRCP-Navassa reef assessment

Episodic cruises ( every 2 years) were conducted to perform assessments of Navassa Island coral reef resources including reeffish visual census, benthic reef community characterization, and targeted assessments of acute coral disease or bleaching events (when encountered).

Tags: 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2012, abundance, atlantic ocean, benthic data, biological samples, caribbean sea, coral reef, country/territory, distribution, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, fisheries independent data, haiti, nancy foster, national marine fisheries service, navassa island, navassa reef assessment, noaa, noaa ship nancy foster, north atlantic ocean, ocean, southeast fisheries science center, u.s. department of commerce, united states of america, visual observation
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Spawning aggregation behavior and reproductive ecology of the giant bumphead parrotfish, Bolbometopon muricatum, in a remote marine reserve-CRCP project

in situ visual surveys of reproductive behavior, spawning and courtship events

Tags: bolbometopon muricatum, bumphead parrotfish, camera, central pacific ocean, doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc, fisheries biology and ecology, national marine fisheries service, noaa, ocean, pacific ocean, southeast fisheries science center, u.s. department of commerce, underwater video camera, visual observations, wake atoll, wake island
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce