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Fisheries-Independent Biological and Environmental Trawl Data from the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (1981-2007) as Part of the Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems (CAGES) Database (NODC Accession 0115183)

Published by Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Galveston Laboratory | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: October 04, 2025 | Last Modified: 2013-11-13T00:00:00.000+00:00
The CAGES program (Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems) is designed to examine the differences between estuarine ecosystems and investigate why some are more productive than others. The program focuses on estuarine areas important to commercial fisheries and includes data on commercial finfish and invertebrate species, as well as other species commonly captured in trawl sampling. This Alabama dataset is a subset of the CAGES Relational Database which is a compilation of fishery-independent data contributed by natural resource agencies of the Gulf States (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida). This data set includes data from trawls collected by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) and Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL), as well as associated hydrographic data. Trawl data were used to calculate CPUE (catch per unit effort) at each station for the years 1981 through 2007.

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CoRIS_Metadata comparative assessment of gulf estuarine systems CAGES Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Gulf Coast Research Laboratory estuary coastal bay distribution abundance occurrence fisheries fishery independent data CPUE catch per unit effort trawl finfish invertebrate nekton vertebrate crustacean salinity temperature dissolved oxygen hydrological hydrographic Annelida Coelenterata Crustacea Echinodermata Mollusca Porifera Vertebrata Xiphosura Gulf of Mexico Gulf Coast Alabama Arnica Bay Bay Minette Creek Blakely River Bon Secour River Chickasaw Creek Deer River Dog River East Fowl River Eleven Mile Creek Eslava Creek Fish River GIWW Gulf Intercoastal Waterway Grand Bay Halls Mill Creek Little Lagoon Magnolia River Mississippi Sound Mobile Bay Mobile River Perdido Bay Rabbit Creek Tensaw River Theodore Industrial Canal Water Body Weeks Bay West Fowl River Wolf Bay Wolf Creek Gulf of Mexico Gulf Coast Texas Galveston Bay Aransas Bay Corpus Christi Bay East Matagorda Bay Lower Laguna Madre Upper Laguna Madre Matagorda Bay Sabine Lake San Antonio Bay Cedar Lakes COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Alabama OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Gulf of Mexico > Alabama OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Gulf of Mexico Numeric Data Sets > Biology EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Marine Invertebrates EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Salinity EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Oxygen EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Fish EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature

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describedByType application/octet-steam
identifier corisid:6966
isPartOf Nekton from fishery-independent trawl samples in estuaries of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico: a Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems (CAGES)
issued 2013-11-13T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage https://www.coris.noaa.gov/metadata/records/ISO/html/CAGES_AL_db_MetadataISO_19115_2.html
language []
rights otherRestrictions
spatial -87.375,30.1617,-88.387,30.84
temporal 1981-02-03T00:00:00+00:00/2007-12-19T00:00:00+00:00

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