CAGES_Texas eng UTF8 dataset service Tuomo Saari GCOOS +1 979-845-7662 797 Lamar St, College Station, TX 77843 College Station TX 77843 USA tsaari@tamu.edu pointOfContact 2026-09-15 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) 4 column row vertical temporal CAGES Texas Data 2021-12-06 creation 2021-12-06 issued gcoos4.geos.tamu.edu CAGES_Texas Harmon Brown (NOAA), Thomas J Minello, Ralf Riedel ralf.riedel@usm.edu https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/30670 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Jim Ditty jim.ditty@noaa.gov contributor Estuaries are important in supporting much of the fishery production in the Gulf of Mexico, but this support appears to vary widely among different estuarine systems. The main objective of this project was to assess variability among estuaries in supporting fishery species and other abundant nekton. The project is part of a larger effort of the National Marine Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory to develop a Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems (CAGES). The nekton abundance data summarized in this report are available at https://data.gcoos.org. This cooperative study with state natural resources agencies was designed to use fishery independent monitoring data and compare historical catches from 4.9-m and 6.1-m trawl surveys. This report provides an assessment of the abundance, length frequencies, and biomass of 14 species of fish and four species of decapod crustaceans that were either abundant in the samples or economically important. The most abundant species in the analysis include bay anchovy, Atlantic croaker, spot, and brown shrimp. Other fishery species of particular interest include Gulf menhaden, white shrimp, pink shrimp, blue crab, spotted seatrout, southern flounder, and red drum. While the years analyzed varied among states, samples from most estuaries were available and analyzed for the years 1986 to 2005. The 24 estuaries analyzed were identified using the Estuarine and Coastal Drainage Areas delineated by the U. S.Geological Survey and listed in NOAAs Coastal Assessment Framework The authors would like to thank the field crews who collected the data and the biologists who analyzed the samples at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. We would like to thank Phil Caldwell of the NOAA Galveston Lab for his assistance with GIS and construction of figures. We also would like to thank Michael Harden, Harry Blanchet, and Marty Bourgeois at the LDWF for their assistance with the Louisiana data. Chris Stafford and Kerry Flaherty at FFWCC provided assistance in compiling the Florida Data and Harriet Perry at FFWCC provided valuable guidance. Harmon Brown (NOAA), Thomas J Minello, Ralf Riedel ralf.riedel@usm.edu https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/30670 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information pointOfContact acceptedNameUsage acceptedScientificNameAuthorship aphia AphiaID array array-data authorship bay brackish CAGES catch class code comprehensive CPUE cpue data date density earth Earth Science family fish species fisheries fishery freshwater gear genus isBrackish isFreshwater isMarine isTerrestrial kingdom large length local marine name name/location number ocean Oceans oceans order phylum practical rank Salinity Salinity/Density science scientificName scientificNameAuthorship scientificNameID sea seawater site species station status stewardship sub system taxon taxonomic taxonomicStatus taxonRank temperature terrestrial tow turbidity unit effort usage valid water theme Nekton from fishery-independent trawl samples in estuaries of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico: a Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems (CAGES). project time latitude longitude sea_water_practical_salinity sea_water_temperature depth biological_taxon_name theme CF Standard Name Table v72 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode Nekton from fishery-independent trawl samples in estuaries of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico: a Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems (CAGES). largerWorkCitation project Unidata Common Data Model Point largerWorkCitation project eng geoscientificInformation 1 -97.691666 -93.75833 26.058332 29.991667 seconds 1982-01-04 2005-12-29 -62.4 -0.2 CAGES Texas Data 2021-12-06 creation 2021-12-06 issued Harmon Brown (NOAA), Thomas J Minello, Ralf Riedel ralf.riedel@usm.edu https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/30670 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Jim Ditty jim.ditty@noaa.gov contributor Estuaries are important in supporting much of the fishery production in the Gulf of Mexico, but this support appears to vary widely among different estuarine systems. The main objective of this project was to assess variability among estuaries in supporting fishery species and other abundant nekton. The project is part of a larger effort of the National Marine Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory to develop a Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems (CAGES). The nekton abundance data summarized in this report are available at https://data.gcoos.org. This cooperative study with state natural resources agencies was designed to use fishery independent monitoring data and compare historical catches from 4.9-m and 6.1-m trawl surveys. This report provides an assessment of the abundance, length frequencies, and biomass of 14 species of fish and four species of decapod crustaceans that were either abundant in the samples or economically important. The most abundant species in the analysis include bay anchovy, Atlantic croaker, spot, and brown shrimp. Other fishery species of particular interest include Gulf menhaden, white shrimp, pink shrimp, blue crab, spotted seatrout, southern flounder, and red drum. While the years analyzed varied among states, samples from most estuaries were available and analyzed for the years 1986 to 2005. The 24 estuaries analyzed were identified using the Estuarine and Coastal Drainage Areas delineated by the U. S.Geological Survey and listed in NOAAs Coastal Assessment Framework ERDDAP tabledap 1 -97.691666 -93.75833 26.058332 29.991667 seconds 1982-01-04 2005-12-29 -62.4 -0.2 tight ERDDAPtabledapDatasetQueryAndAccess https://gcoos4.geos.tamu.edu/erddap/tabledap/CAGES_Texas ERDDAP:tabledap ERDDAP-tabledap ERDDAP's tabledap service (a flavor of OPeNDAP) for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .graph, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. download CAGES Texas Data 2021-12-06 creation 2021-12-06 issued Harmon Brown (NOAA), Thomas J Minello, Ralf Riedel ralf.riedel@usm.edu https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/30670 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Jim Ditty jim.ditty@noaa.gov contributor Estuaries are important in supporting much of the fishery production in the Gulf of Mexico, but this support appears to vary widely among different estuarine systems. The main objective of this project was to assess variability among estuaries in supporting fishery species and other abundant nekton. The project is part of a larger effort of the National Marine Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory to develop a Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems (CAGES). The nekton abundance data summarized in this report are available at https://data.gcoos.org. This cooperative study with state natural resources agencies was designed to use fishery independent monitoring data and compare historical catches from 4.9-m and 6.1-m trawl surveys. This report provides an assessment of the abundance, length frequencies, and biomass of 14 species of fish and four species of decapod crustaceans that were either abundant in the samples or economically important. The most abundant species in the analysis include bay anchovy, Atlantic croaker, spot, and brown shrimp. Other fishery species of particular interest include Gulf menhaden, white shrimp, pink shrimp, blue crab, spotted seatrout, southern flounder, and red drum. While the years analyzed varied among states, samples from most estuaries were available and analyzed for the years 1986 to 2005. The 24 estuaries analyzed were identified using the Estuarine and Coastal Drainage Areas delineated by the U. S.Geological Survey and listed in NOAAs Coastal Assessment Framework OPeNDAP 1 -97.691666 -93.75833 26.058332 29.991667 seconds 1982-01-04 2005-12-29 -62.4 -0.2 tight OPeNDAPDatasetQueryAndAccess https://gcoos4.geos.tamu.edu/erddap/tabledap/CAGES_Texas OPeNDAP:OPeNDAP OPeNDAP An OPeNDAP service for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. download CAGES Texas Data 2021-12-06 creation 2021-12-06 issued Harmon Brown (NOAA), Thomas J Minello, Ralf Riedel ralf.riedel@usm.edu https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/30670 information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Jim Ditty jim.ditty@noaa.gov contributor Estuaries are important in supporting much of the fishery production in the Gulf of Mexico, but this support appears to vary widely among different estuarine systems. The main objective of this project was to assess variability among estuaries in supporting fishery species and other abundant nekton. The project is part of a larger effort of the National Marine Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory to develop a Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems (CAGES). The nekton abundance data summarized in this report are available at https://data.gcoos.org. This cooperative study with state natural resources agencies was designed to use fishery independent monitoring data and compare historical catches from 4.9-m and 6.1-m trawl surveys. This report provides an assessment of the abundance, length frequencies, and biomass of 14 species of fish and four species of decapod crustaceans that were either abundant in the samples or economically important. The most abundant species in the analysis include bay anchovy, Atlantic croaker, spot, and brown shrimp. Other fishery species of particular interest include Gulf menhaden, white shrimp, pink shrimp, blue crab, spotted seatrout, southern flounder, and red drum. While the years analyzed varied among states, samples from most estuaries were available and analyzed for the years 1986 to 2005. The 24 estuaries analyzed were identified using the Estuarine and Coastal Drainage Areas delineated by the U. S.Geological Survey and listed in NOAAs Coastal Assessment Framework ERDDAP Subset 1 -97.691666 -93.75833 26.058332 29.991667 seconds 1982-01-04 2005-12-29 -62.4 -0.2 tight ERDDAP_Subset https://gcoos4.geos.tamu.edu/erddap/tabledap/CAGES_Texas.subset search Subset Web page to facilitate selecting subsets of the dataset download physicalMeasurement time double Date Sample_Code int Sample Code Station_Code short Station Code YYYY short YYYY MM short MM DD short DD Site_Number float Site Number Bay_Code float Bay Code SubBay_Code float Sub Bay Code gear String Gear SubBay_Location String Sub Bay Location sea_water_practical_salinity float Sea Water Practical Salinity sea_water_temperature float Temperature Turbidity float Turbidity Tow_Time float Tow Time Name_Location String Name/Location Species_Code long Species Code cpue float Cpue Length float Length TotalNumber float Total number of individuals of the species in the sample. 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Specify a subset of the dataset and download the data via OPeNDAP or in many different file types. download https://gcoos4.geos.tamu.edu/erddap/tabledap/CAGES_Texas.graph order Make-A-Graph Form ERDDAP's Make-A-Graph .html web page for this dataset. Create an image with a map or graph of a subset of the data. mapDigital dataset 2021-12-06T17:58:01Z This record was created from dataset metadata by ERDDAP Version 2.30.0