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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... -
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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... -
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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... -
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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... -
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Cooperative Atlantic States Shark Pupping and Nursery (COASTSPAN)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Survey of inshore areas used by sharks for pupping and nurseries. Various locations have been surveyed, from the U.S. Virgin Islands to Massachusetts, most in... -
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Long term Milford Lab Temperature and Salinity Data
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Temperature and salinity of sea water entering the Milford NOAA Laboratory has been being collected since 1948. From 1948-1974 the temperature data was collected at... -
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Deep Water Survey Data
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The deep water biodiversity surveys explore and describe the biodiversity of the bathy- and bentho-pelagic nekton using Midwater and bottom trawls. The covered area... -
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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... -
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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... -
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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... -
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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... -
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Massachusetts Recreational Fishing Demand Survey
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Stated preference choice experiment data were collected in 2012 from Massachuestts saltwater recreational fishermen. Saltwater anglers fishing in Massachusetts (MA)... -
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Atlantic Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Survey
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The standardized NEFSC Atlantic Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Survey has covered an area from Cape Hatteras to Georges Bank. The survey was conducted every two or three... -
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Enhanced Biological Sampling Data
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This is a database of a variety of biological, reproductive, and energetic data collected from fish on the continental shelf in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. Species... -
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Food Habits Database (FHDBS)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The NEFSC Food Habits Database has two major sources of data. The first, and most extensive, is the standard NEFSC Bottom Trawl Surveys Program. During these surveys,... -
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Habitat Mapping Camera (HABCAM)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dataset entails imagery collected using the HabCam towed underwater vehicle and annotated data on objects or habitats in the images and notes on image qualities....
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