Abstract
A VideoRay Pro4 ROV equipped with red laser scale (distance between lasers = 10 cm) was employed to estimate the size distribution of reef fishes at study sites. Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) estimates were collected at natural reef sites in the northern Gulf of Mexico from August 30 - September 4, 2015; July 28 - August 8, 2016; October 26 - November 2, 2017.
Purpose
To estimate size distributions of reef fishes with an ROV.
Keywords
fish length estimates, size distribution, reef fish, natural reefs
UDI
R4.x267.180:0022
Date
November 2018
Point of Contact
Name
William Frank Patterson
Organization
University of Florida / Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Funding Source
RFP-4
DOI
10.7266/n7-p0an-xq44
Rights Information
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Scholar Commons Citation
Glabach, Miaya. 2018. Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) laser estimates of reef fish length at natural reef sites in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2015-08-30 to 2017-11-02. Distributed by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC), Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/n7-p0an-xq44
Comments
Supplemental Information
Date (date sample collected M/DD/YYYY), Site (reef name), Species (common name), FL (estimated bias-corrected fork length in mm from laser scale data), and TL (estimated bias-corrected total length in mm from laser scale data). Laser measurements are measured head to center of the tail and TL (total length) is computed. This computation for FL to TL conversion only works for a select number of species, not all. The species which we cannot compute a TL is left blank. Site Latitude (decimal degrees) Longitude (decimal degrees) Amberjack Rock 30.1834 -86.8633 Destin Edge I 30.0001 -86.5183 Destin Edge II 30.1282 -86.8327 Dutch Banks 30.1943 -87.4374 Good Rock 30.2000 -86.2334 Green's Hole 30.1403 -87.1838 Mingo Ridge 29.9848 -86.5667 Mobile Edge II 29.4614 -87.9749 Natural Bottom East 30.1417 -86.3283 Natural Bottom West 29.9217 -87.8950 Nikki Grounds 30.1975 -86.7927 SE Banks 30.0150 -87.9517 The Edge 29.8285 -87.3249 Tree Bottom 30.1044 -87.8001 Trysler Grounds 29.8963 -87.5324 Yellow Gravel 29.7251 -87.4050|Methodology reported in Patterson et al. (2009).|VideoRay Pro 4 Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV), Mecco laser scaler|||Patterson III, W.F., Dance, M.A. and Addis, D.T. (2009). Development of a remotely operated vehicle based methodology to estimate fish community structure at artificial reef sites in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Proc. Gulf Caribb. Fish. Inst. 61: 263–270