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115 datasets found
  • Federal

    Ethnographic Interviews of New England Groundfish Fishermen on Adaptation and Transition

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    The implementation of Amendment 16 to the fishery's Federal Management Plan in May 2010 implemented catch share management in the form of sectors. In addition, since...
  • Federal

    Right Whale Sightings Advisory System (RWSAS)

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    The Right Whale Sighting Advisory System (RWSAS) is a NOAA Fisheries program which was designed to reduce collisions between ships and the critically endangered North...
  • Federal

    Seal Counts

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    Database of seal counts from aerial photography. Counts by image, site, species, and date are stored in the database along with information on entanglements and other...
  • Federal

    eDNA Survey

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    Scientists at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) are using environmental DNA (eDNA) to identify fish communities and monitor ecosystems by collecting a...
  • Federal

    Summary Characteristics from Ethnographic Interviews of New England Groundfish Fishermen on Adaptation and Transition

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    Database of fisherman and vessel characteristics selected from ethnographic interviews of New England groundfish fishermen on adaptation and transition.
  • Federal

    Community Database

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    This excel spreadsheet is the result of merging at the port level of several of the in-house fisheries databases in combination with other demographic databases such...
  • Federal

    Summer Bottom Trawl Survey

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    Sampling the coastal waters of the Gulf of Maine using the Northeast Fishery Science Center standardized bottom trawl has been problematic due to large areas of hard...
  • Federal

    Cooperative Shark Mark Recapture Database (MRDBS)

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    The Shark Mark Recapture Database is a Cooperative Research Program database system used to keep multispecies mark-recapture information in a common format for...
  • Federal

    Market News Price Dataset

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    Real-time price data collected by the Boston Market News Reporter. The NOAA Fisheries' "Fishery Market News" began operations in New York City on February 14, 1938....
  • Federal

    Sea Scallop Survey

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    The standardized NEFSC Sea Scallop Survey began in 1980 and has covered an area from Cape Hatteras to Georges Bank. The survey aims to determine the distribution and...
  • Federal

    NEFSC Photo Gallery

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    Photos of fish, marine mammals, turtles, ships, and other related subjects for use by students, educators, scientists, media, etc.
  • Federal

    Deep Trawl Dataset

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    Otter trawl (36' Yankee and 4-seam net deepwater gear) catches from mid-Atlantic slope and canyons at 200 - 800 m depth. Deep-sea (200-800 m depth) flat otter trawls...
  • Federal

    Benthic Habitat Database

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    The NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center has, through the years, accumulated an extensive data base of qualitative and quantitative (wet weight and number per...
  • Federal

    Observer and At Sea Monitor Database (OBDBS)

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    The Northeast Fisheries Observer Database System (OBDBS) contains data collected on commercial fishing vessels by observers from 1989 - present and at-sea monitors...
  • Federal

    Coastal Shark Bottom Longline Survey

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    Longest fishery-independent survey of sharks in the U.S. Atlantic Ocean, every 2-3 years since 1986.
  • Federal

    Tissue Tracking System

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    NEFSC holds a sample inventory of marine mammal parts collected from stranded and bycaught animals as well as from our field research activities. The database holds...
  • Federal

    NEFSC Statistical Areas

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    Statistical areas for the offshore eastern USA as determined by NOAA's NMFS for use in reporting and scientific research
  • Federal

    Microalgal Mass Culture Data from Greenhouse Tanks

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    Data is collected during experiments growing marine microalgae, on a pilot scale, to improve culture methods and yield. Cultures are typically 450 liters in...
  • Federal

    Fall Bottom Trawl Survey

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    The standardized NEFSC Fall Bottom Trawl Survey was initiated in 1963 and covered an area from Hudson Canyon, NY to Nova Scotia, Canada. Throughout the years,...
  • Federal

    Seal Aerial Survey

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —

    The NEFSC has been conducting aerial surveys of gray seal pupping colonies since 2005 to monitor the number of pups born in U.S. waters. Surveys are flown from either...
115 datasets found

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