Inventory Phase One
Products
1. Database of NMFS fishery-independent survey activities and stations. Most of the surveys took place in the 2002 or 2003 field seasons. Some Alaska surveys occurred during 2005-2006. Each survey is represented only once.
 The database contains Inventories of survey characteristics and station locations. The inventories represent the principal surveys of each region, such as living marine resource surveys, ecosystem surveys, protected resource surveys, habitat assessment surveys, etc. Each survey is described in detail with information of applicable Fishery Management Plan (s), targeted stocks, effort /time required for study (e.g., Days at Sea), parameter measured, etc. There is also a one-stop shop form for entering new data, where the station information is added on the survey characteristics as a subform for each survey.
2. Table that characterizes the number of stations by survey within each NMFS region.
This report shows 52 surveys, with 8263 stations and 599 tracks, conducted by the six NMFS Centers. For example, the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program is represented by the Southwest Fisheries Science Center with 246 stations for 2002. The southeast marine mammal cruises is represented by the Southeast Fisheries Science Center with 46 tracks in the Golf of Mexico and 28 tracks in the South Atlantic for 2002. Information for the other marine mammal surveys will be collected during the next phase of the project.
Note: The report only covers fishery- independent data. A truly complete inventory would need NMFS fishery-dependent data which are managed through the Fisheries Information System.
3. Table that characterizes the number of stations for each parameter measured.
This table contains the number of stations in each NMFS region that measured the parameters identified for this one-year snapshot. The parameters covered include the Integrated Ocean Observing System core physical variables (i.e. seawater temperature, salinity, currents, water/sea level, and ocean color), the Ocean.US principle biological parameters (chlorophyll, recruitment, living marine resource assessment, faunal associations, protected species monitoring, etc.), and geo-chemical variables (dissolved oxygen, dissolved nutrients, bathymetry, water quality, etc.).
4. GIS maps that show the survey stations in different regions
The GIS maps give the geographic view of the station locations for surveys collected during this phase.
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| Commander John Bortniak, NOAA Corps |
To access the tables and GIS map for each Science Center, click on the links below or on the map for survey locations in different region.
Click here to access the tables and GIS map for the West Coast. |
