National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) Reef Visual Census (RVC) Fish Survey Protocols for the U.S. Atlantic: Florida, Flower Garden Banks, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands 2026

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• Corporate Authors:
  Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
• NOAA Program & Office:
  CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
• Description:
  The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP)’s biological sampling provides a biennial ecological characterization of general reef condition for reef fishes, corals, and benthic habitat (i.e., fish community composition, and species-specific density (abundance) and size; coral species composition, density, size, condition; and benthic community cover) at a broad spatial scale (CRCP 2021). In the U.S. Atlantic, NCRMP biological sampling includes coral reef and hardbottom habitats in Florida, Flower Garden Banks, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI).
• Keywords:
  Fish Surveys Reef Fishes Fish Surveys Reef Fishes
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/jjtt-7b55
• Format:
  pdf
• CoRIS Project ID:
  CRCP Project ID ; 743
• Document Type:
  Non-series Report
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (Tex.) ; Puerto Rico ; United States Virgin Islands ; North Atlantic Ocean
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:05bc631c33e2eb523ae49d932b3bf4c2fd9ccb1955d43dfe186c34ef8d2b49fb094e4c377d38e073c69ac5d2f28ffa67da549d4a4cc59cf467193b7633b696fb
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/72909/noaa_72909_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.54 MB ]