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Fisheries Online Information System - Survey of pelagic and demersal habitats within the northern California Current

Metadata Updated: March 8, 2024

The Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC) conducts a comprehensive groundfish bottom trawl survey encompassing the U.S. West Coast between the borders with Canada and Mexico (Keller et al. 2008) and water depths of 50 to 1280 meters. This survey was not designed to quantitatively sample the young-of-the-year (YOY) life history stage. Since 1996, the Zooplankton Program at the NWFSC has conducted biweekly hydrography and plankton cruises along the Newport Hydrographic line (NH-Line) across the central Oregon shelf (44.67N) (e.g., Peterson and Keister 2003, Peterson 2009). On each cruise, hydrographic measurements and zooplankton samples are collected at stations ranging from 1 to 25 miles from shore. These zooplankton cruises build on and complement a broad range of historic and ongoing oceanographic sampling focused on the NH-Line. For FY11, the NWFSC received Cooperative Research funding to conduct a seasonal fishing vessel-based survey of young-of-the-year (YOY) groundfishes along the NH-Line synoptically with the Zooplankton Labs plankton/physical oceanography sampling program. The YOY groundfish, ichthyoplnakton and zoopplankton work are, in part, operating as a cooperative survey of pelagic and demersal habitats within the northern California Current,. The database stores data from ongoing field collections made by the OSU Fisheries Oceanography Research Team in collaboration with NOAA Fisheries. Field activities include plankton tows, benthic beam trawls, water column hydrographic profiles, and in-situ video observations of fish behavior.

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Dates

Metadata Date February 29, 2024
Metadata Created Date July 28, 2023
Metadata Updated Date March 8, 2024
Reference Date(s) April 1, 2008 (creation), (publication)
Frequency Of Update

Metadata Source

Harvested from NMFS NWFSC

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date February 29, 2024
Metadata Created Date July 28, 2023
Metadata Updated Date March 8, 2024
Reference Date(s) April 1, 2008 (creation), (publication)
Responsible Party (Point of Contact, Custodian)
Contact Email
Guid gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:18424
Access Constraints Cite As: Northwest Fisheries Science Center, [Date of Access]: Fisheries Online Information System - Survey of pelagic and demersal habitats within the northern California Current [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/18424., Access Constraints: Database login currently required.
Bbox East Long -124.0372
Bbox North Lat 44.6329
Bbox South Lat 44.6229
Bbox West Long -124.0472
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update
Harvest Object Id 49be1e16-fc35-4fb7-91d7-3f7da4a28bf6
Harvest Source Id ba43549f-8268-499d-bec8-91b164cb168f
Harvest Source Title NMFS NWFSC
Licence NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose.
Lineage Unknown. The data processing was conducted by Oregon State University.
Metadata Language eng
Metadata Type geospatial
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Progress underDevelopment
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2011-11-01

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