TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries Matagorda Bay Gill Net

Sampling event
Latest version published by United States Geological Survey on Jan 3, 2022 United States Geological Survey

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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 gill net data collected for the Matagorda bay system in Texas from 1976 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.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 3,713 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
3713
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
258957
Occurrence 
233919

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Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence

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Contacts

Lisa Gonzalez
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Houston Advanced Research Center
  • 4800 Research Forest Dr
77381 The Woodlands
TX
US
Abigail Benson
  • Metadata Provider
  • User
  • Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey

Geographic Coverage

Matagorda Bay System. All waters, including all saltwater bayous, between the surfline from the eastern edge of the Lower Colorado River (below the ICWW) to the eastern edge of the Chain of Islands in Pass Cavallo and the lower portion of the Tres Palacios and Lavaca Rivers

Bounding Coordinates South West [28.25, -96.654], North East [28.872, -95.634]

Additional Metadata

marine, harvest by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers b84099fa-99ac-4e11-a8da-d09add544131
https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=tpwd_harc_texasmatagordabay_gillnet_20150130