TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries Matagorda Bay Gill Net

Lisa Gonzalez1, Abigail Benson2

1 Houston Advanced Research Center, 4800 Research Forest Dr, 77381, The Woodlands, United States; 2 U.S. Geological Survey, 

Corresponding author(s): Lisa Gonzalez (lgonzalez@harcresearch.org), Abigail Benson (albenson@usgs.gov)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence

General description

Additional information: marine, harvest by iOBIS

Data published through GBIF: https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=tpwd_harc_texasmatagordabay_gillnet_20150130

Spatial coverage

General spatial 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
Coordinates: 28°15'0''N and 28°52'19.2''N Latitude; 96°39'14.4''W and 95°38'2.4''W Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries Matagorda Bay Gill Net
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/archive.do?r=tpwd_harc_texasmatagordabay_gillnet_20150130
Publication date of data: 2022-01-03
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

External datasets

Dataset description
Object name: csdgm metadata xml
Character encoding: utf-8
Format name: xml
Distribution: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/53a35c60e4b0403a441548b8?f=__disk__6d%2Fd9%2Fd1%2F6dd9d196941786137f0a0a3b85b5318d03675f32

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2015-01-30
Hierarchy level: Dataset