TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries San Antonio Bay Trawl

Lisa Gonzalez1, Abigail Benson2, Abigail Benson3

1 Houston Advanced Research Center, 4800 Research Forest Dr, 77381, The Woodlands, United States; 2 U.S. Geological Survey, ; 3 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 bay trawl data collected for the San Antonio bay system in Texas from 1982 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

General description

Additional information: marine, harvest by iOBIS

Data published through GBIF: https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=tpwd_harc_texassanantoniobay_trawl_20150202

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: San Antonio Bay System. All waters, including all saltwater bayous, between the eastern edge of the Chain of Islands in Pass Cavallo to the Chain of Islands in the western edge of Ayres Bay and all waters from the mouth of the Guadalupe River including Mission Lake, Guadalupe Bay and the lower delta of the Guadalupe River.
Coordinates: 28°0'0''N and 28°30'0''N Latitude; 97°0'0''W and 96°0'0''W Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries San Antonio Bay Trawl
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/archive.do?r=tpwd_harc_texassanantoniobay_trawl_20150202
Publication date of data: 2017-11-21
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/53a4a4fce4b0cbf536079080?f=__disk__a6%2F1c%2F2d%2Fa61c2d79206fed5c608bc25aa26b829772d1c727

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2015-02-01
Hierarchy level: Dataset