SEAMAP Real-time Plots for the year 2018
Week 4
Below is the fourth preliminary data summary for the 2018 SEAMAP Summer Shrimp/Groundfish Survey in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This week's summary includes sampling from June 20 - July 3 by the Florida vessel Tommy Munro, the Alabama vessel Alabama Discovery, and the NOAA Fisheries vessel Oregon II. Catch data were taken with a 40-ft trawl.
Plotted catch rates have been converted to pounds per hour for a 40-ft trawl. Shrimp counts are heads-on. The squares on the charts are 10-minute grids. The number in each grid square is the average catch or count from all stations (may be one or more stations) that were sampled within a particular grid. The sampling stations were located randomly by depth zone.
The catch data indicated that the highest catch rate of brown shrimp was 92.8 lb/hr in 16 fm at 28° 31' N. lat. and 95° 21' W. long. The highest catch rate of white shrimp was 42.4 lb/hr in 9 fm at 28° 36' N. lat. and 95° 39' W. long. The highest catch rate of pink shrimp was 27.2 lb/hr in 10 fm at 28° 44' N. lat. and 83° 20' W. long. The maximum total catch rate excluding the three shrimp species was 1,266 lb/hr in 14 fm at 26° 35' N. lat. and 82° 43' W. long.
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