CAGES_Louisiana 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 2026-01-13 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) 3 column row temporal CAGES Louisiana Data 2025-04-24 creation gcoos4.geos.tamu.edu CAGES_Louisiana 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 air Air Temperature bay bottom Bottom Salinity Bottom Water Temperature CAGES catch Common Name CPUE cpue datetime density duration fish species fisheries fishery gear length Length Measurement Louisiana maturity Maturity Stage measured measurement method Number Measured observation ocean oceans practical salinity Salinity sample science scientific name ScientificName sea seawater site SiteName source species stage station Sub Bay surface Surface Salinity Surface Water Temperature temperature Total Number turbidity unit effort units water Water Temperature weight theme Earth Science > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Salinity theme GCMD Science Keywords 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 samplecode csa stationcode gearcode station sitename subbay salinitymethodcode sea_surface_salinity sea_water_salinity_at_sea_floor sea_water_salinity airtemperaturemethodcode air_temperature watertemperaturemethodcode sea_surface_temperature sea_water_temperature_at_sea_floor sea_water_temperature turbiditymethodcode sea_water_turbidity salinitymethod airtemperaturemethod watertemperaturemethod turbiditymethod gear gearobservationcode duration speciescode totalnumber totalnumbermethod totalnumbermethodcode numbermeasured cpue scientificname commonname lengthinterval individualweightunits lengthmeasurement lengthunits lengthunitscode lengthgroup stagecode maturitystage 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 -93.36667 -89.16 29.0 30.2342 seconds 1986-01-02 2007-12-27 CAGES Louisiana Data 2025-04-24 creation 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 -93.36667 -89.16 29.0 30.2342 seconds 1986-01-02 2007-12-27 tight ERDDAPtabledapDatasetQueryAndAccess https://gcoos4.geos.tamu.edu/erddap/tabledap/CAGES_Louisiana 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 Louisiana Data 2025-04-24 creation 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 -93.36667 -89.16 29.0 30.2342 seconds 1986-01-02 2007-12-27 tight OPeNDAPDatasetQueryAndAccess https://gcoos4.geos.tamu.edu/erddap/tabledap/CAGES_Louisiana 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 Louisiana Data 2025-04-24 creation 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. 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