SEAMAP Real-time Plots for the year 2023
Week 1
Below is the first preliminary data summary for the 2023 SEAMAP Summer Shrimp/Groundfish Survey in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This week's summary includes sampling from June 7-16 by Florida on the vessel Tommy Munro and from June 12-14 by Louisiana on the vessel Pelican, and from June 14-15 by NMFS on the 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 73.1 lb/hr in 19 fm at 29° 47' N. lat. and 88° 26' W. long. The highest catch rate of white shrimp was 4.2 lb/hr in 7 fm at 28° 52' N. lat. and 90° 24' W. long. The highest catch rate of pink shrimp was 81.6 lb/hr in 23 fm at 24° 49' N. lat. and 82° 52' W. long. The maximum total catch rate excluding the three shrimp species was 1,756 lb/hr in 15 fm at 27° 38' N. lat. and 83° 09' W. long. Back to 2023
