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Surveys in Untrawlable Habitat
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Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC) Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring FRAM - Groundfish Ecology
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Surveys in Untrawlable Habitat
Title
Surveys in Untrawlable Habitat
Description
The NMFS Untrawlable Habitat Strategic Initiative (UHSI) was started in 2013 to identify and quantify biases associated with mobile survey vehicles (i.e., remotely operated vehicle (ROV), autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), human-occupied submersible (HOV), and towed camera) used to count ¿shes in complex habitats that preclude the use of bottom trawls. Following on a two-year Gulf of Mexico study focused on a snapper / grouper complex, the UHSI moved to the West Coast to address a critical need to quantify the response of West Coast rock¿shes (genus Sebastes) to mobile survey vehicles. In 2016, a pilot testbed experiment was initiated
on a deep-water rocky bank (100-150m) in the Southern California Bight – a site characterized by diverse and abundant assemblages of rock¿shes and a long history of HOV, AUV, and ROV surveys. MOUSS stereo cameras and orthogonal DIDSON imaging sonars were integrated into two instrumented and novel autonomous ¿xed platforms, which were deployed and positioned daily by an HOV along a high-relief rocky section of the bank. These optical and acoustical imaging surveillance systems were used to quantify changes in ¿sh density and behavior in response to two representative survey vehicles, a Seabed AUV and the DeepWorker HOV.
The NWFSC FRAM Marine Habitat Ecology Team is collaborating in many aspects of the UHSI program but has focused on the application of DIDSON imaging sonars to aid in quantifying avoidance/attraction biases in fishes relative to two types of mobile sampling vehicles used for direct visual surveys.
Data Sets
#CARD_INITIALS#
DIDSON ultrasonic video data
Ultrasonic video data
Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring - Groundfish Ecology
Research Themes
Research Foci
Keywords
ADVANCED SAMPLING
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advanced Technologies
Advanced Technologies and their applications to fisheries research and surveys
advanced technology surveys
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untrawlable habitat
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Products
None associated
Taxa
Family Lutjanidae
snappers
Family Serranidae
sea basses: groupers and fairy basslets
Genus Sebastes
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People
Curt Whitmire
Internal Collaborator
Emmaleigh Wilson
External Collaborator
W. Wakefield
Principal Investigator