Coastal finfish stock assessment survey

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Annual report
• Personal Author:
  Michels, Stewart F.
• Corporate Authors:
  Delaware. Division of Fish & Wildlife
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service)
• Description:
  The Delaware Bay supports a number of sociologically and economically important fisheries. Species of importance in these fisheries include weak.fish ( Cynoscion regalis), summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus), bluefish(Pomatomus saltatrix) and Atlantic croak.er (Micropogonias undulatus). These species use the estuary seasonally for spawning, nursery and/or feeding area which influences population densities. The passage of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 increased the demand for pertinent, up-to-date information on stocks using the coastal estuaries. Guidelines under the Act require that each species be managed throughout its range. A multi-species bottom trawl survey was reinstated by the Division of Fish and Wildlife to provide necessary fisheries independent data for the Delaware Bay. The objective of this program is to provide relative abundance and distribution information on the stocks using Delaware Bay.
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Non-series Report
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA56FI0503
• Place as Subject:
  Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.) ; Delaware
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/74235/noaa_74235_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 9.68 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b6a729f0f48a8f808b8251e1d6847a7cdff1951bc2b04743e2cacc007003e6dea87ffcf49b924699ab40e9770ae1b118f511fafd42f66148a7a21fbbe690a7b6