| Southeast Fishery-Independent Survey (PC1402, ME70) |
| The Southeast Fishery-Independent Survey (SEFIS) was created by the National Marine
Fisheries Service in 2010 and operates out of the NOAA Beaufort Laboratory. The survey
conducts fishery-independent sampling and related applied research, focusing on the
assessment of spatial variability in distribution and abundance of marine fish species
within the snapper-grouper complex, via data collected from fish traps, video cameras,
and acoustics. The NOAA ship Pisces departed Morehead city on 5 July 2014 for a SEFIS
research cruise in continental shelf and shelf-break waters off the southeastern U.S.
During this survey, 227 sq km of multibeam data were collected from 48 discrete areas
between 33.5 Deg N and 35.0 Deg N. A total of 391 concomitant trap-camera samples
were collected. |
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