SEAMAP Real-time Plots for the year 2023

Week 5

Below is the fifth preliminary data summary for the 2023 SEAMAP Summer Shrimp/Groundfish Survey in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This week's summary includes sampling from July 28 – August 5 by NMFS on the vessel Tommy Munro. 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 123.4 lb/hr in 17 fm at 28° 30' N. lat. and 95° 16' W. long. The catch data indicated that the highest catch rate of white shrimp was 4.4 lb/hr in 8 fm at 28° 38' N. lat. and 95° 45' W. long. The highest catch rate of pink shrimp was 3.7 lb/hr in 8 fm at 27° 40' N. lat. and 97° 08' W. long. The maximum total catch rate excluding the three shrimp species was 809 lb/hr in 12 fm at 28° 52' N. lat. and 94° 40' W. long.

Week 5 Results