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The Chesapeake Bay Multispecies Monitoring and Assessment Program (ChesMMAP) Citation Contact: Goldstein, Philip Availability: This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Description 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. more 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. Scope Themes: Biology, Fisheries Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Fresh water, Brackish water, ANW, USA, Chesapeake Bay Geographical coverage ANW, USA, Chesapeake Bay [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage 29 March 2002 - 20 December 2013 Parameter Occurrence of biota Contributors Related datasets Published in: OBIS-USA: US Ocean Biodiversity Informaton System, more URL Dataset information: Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Monitoring: field survey Metadatarecord created: 2015-03-27 Information last updated: 2015-03-27 |