TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries Corpus Christi Bay Bag Seine

Lisa Gonzalez

doi:10.15468/rsmz5o

TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries Corpus Christi Bay Bag Seine

Citation

United States Geological Survey: TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries Corpus Christi Bay Bag Seine https://doi.org/10.15468/rsmz5o accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-11-03.

Description

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) utilizes several sampling gears for fisheries-independent monitoring of finfish and shellfish communities. They include bag seines, trawls, gill nets and oyster dredges. TPWD uses multiple gears in a random sampling protocol, and they identify (to the lowest taxonomic unit possible) and count everything that they collect. This dataset contains bag seine data collected for the Corpus Christi bay system in Texas from 1977 to 2008. Collected data also included spatial and temporal information describing the sample location and time, collection gear information, hydrological data (e.g. dissolved oxygen, water temperature, and salinity), weather conditions, species caught, and number of each species captured. Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) calculated the relative abundance data, calculated as the catch of a particular species in a sample divided by the total number of animals captured in that sample. Absence data was recorded for species on the TPWD species sampling lists that were not captured during sampling.

Additional info

marine, harvest by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Corpus Christi Bay System. All waters, including all saltwater bayous, between the surfline from the western edge of the causeway between Aransas Pass and Port Aransas to the power line connecting Demit Island to Mustang Island, and the mouth of the Nueces River.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Lisa Gonzalez
originator
position: Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Houston Advanced Research Center
4800 Research Forest Dr
The Woodlands
77381
TX
US
email: lgonzalez@harcresarch.org

Abigail Benson
metadata author
position: Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey
email: albenson@usgs.gov

Abigail Benson
user
position: Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey
email: albenson@usgs.gov

Lisa Gonzalez
administrative point of contact
position: Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Houston Advanced Research Center
4800 Research Forest Dr
The Woodlands
77381
TX
US
email: lgonzalez@harcresearch.org