Dataset 4882

Dataset record

Type: Dataset
title in English: The Chesapeake Bay Multispecies Monitoring and Assessment Program (ChesMMAP)
Description in English: Received from D. Gauthier at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and processed for inclusion in the OBIS-USA database by A. Benson and P. Goldstein.
Abstract in English: ChesMMAP is fishery-independent monitoring survey that uses a large-mesh bottom trawl to sample late juvenile-to-adult fishes in the mainstem of Chesapeake Bay. This program currently provides data on relative abundance, length, weight, sex ratio, maturity, age, and trophic interactions for several important fish species that inhabit the bay seasonally. ChesMMAP was designed to maximize the biological and ecological information collected for several recreationally, commercially, and ecologically important species in the bay.
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