Northeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program Near Shore Trawl Survey (NEAMAP)

Debra Gauthier1, Abigail Benson2, Abigail Benson3

1 Virginia Institute of Marine Science, ; 2 ; 3 

Corresponding author(s): Debra Gauthier (parthee@vims.edu), Abigail Benson (albenson@usgs.gov)

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Abstract

NEAMAP stands for NorthEast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program.  NEAMAP was developed to meet the needs of fisheries management and stock assessment activities in the northeastern United States. NEAMAP began in 2006 with a fall pilot survey and in 2008 began conducting both a spring and fall survey.  NEAMAP samples from Cape Cod, MA south to Cape Hatteras, NC and targets both juvenile and adult fishes.

NEAMAP is an integrated, cooperative state/federal data collection program. Its mission is to facilitate the collection and dissemination of fishery-independent information obtained in the Northeast for use by state and federal fisheries management agencies, the fishing industry (commercial and recreational), researchers, and others requesting such information. The intent of NEAMAP is not to change existing programs, but to coordinate and standardize procedures and improve data quality and accessibility.

Keywords: Occurrence

General description

Additional information: marine, harvest by iOBIS

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

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Between the 6.1 m and 27.4 m depth contours of the Mid-Atlantic Bight (Montauk, NY to Cape Hatteras, NC)
Coordinates: 34°41'38.5''N and 41°7'3.76''N Latitude; 77°41'46.5''W and 66°10'52.14''W Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Northeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program Near Shore Trawl Survey (NEAMAP)
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=vims_neamap
Publication date of data: 2018-03-13
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-03-08
Hierarchy level: Dataset